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Personal correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Loc Genre/Form Terms For Library And Archival Materials (Lcgft)
Scope Note: correspondence: Letters, memoranda, notes, postcards, e-mail, and other written and addressed messages exchanged between two or more people, usually archived with the personal papers of the correspondents. Often used in preparing biographical and historical works, correspondence may be published separately or with other papers.

Variants: Correspondence, Personal // Correspondence, Private // Email, Personal // Email, Private // Letters, Personal // Mail, Personal // Personal email // Personal letters // Personal mail // Private email // Private correspondence // Private email

Broader: Discursive works // Records (Documents) Narrower: Email // Hate mail // Letters to Santa // Love letters // Telegrams // V-mail

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Goldsmith Schiffman Holocaust Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC-32
Scope and Contents

Personal correspondence (Lichtenstine, Levi, Kahn, Marx, Kretsch, Elbert, Heinz, Ludwig, Meinhard, Moritz, Otto), business correspondence, background files, SHOAH Foundation materials, white papers, oral interviews, news articles, program notes, Holocaust Remembrance materials.

Dates: 1922 - 1954

Hildegard Nörenberg Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC-120
Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence between Hildegard Nörenberg and her family, friends, and acquaintances around the world, as well as extensive correspondence between Nörenberg and her longtime sweetheart Hans Albert Silberberg beginning in the 1920s until his death in 1932. The materials also include postcards, family photographs, personal documents, and travel ephemera collected during her life and career as a nurse and midwife. The materials discuss personal relationships,...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1924 - 1972