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Financial and Miscellaneous Records, on the other hand includes exclusively party materials: a few annual reports from the Charles Kerr Publishing Company (1961), some Kerr inventories (1961, 1967, 1968), enumerations of Proletarian News subscribers by state (427 in 1960, 418 in 1961), accountings of some minor funds (for a mimeograph machine (1952), for the convention (1957), etc.), and some very miscellaneous material dealing with internal party business.

The Meeting Information folder includes announcements of regular Marxism study classes (Chicago), Local picnics, socials, and lectures, and announcements of visiting lectures by Wysocki, Keracher, John Davis, Christ Jelset, etc. There is some correspondence dealing with arranging picnic sites. The folder also includes what appear to be schedules for the Chicago "Friday Forum," from a period later than any of the correspondence (1966-67), and listing the weekly chairmen (drawn from Charles Barone, Al Wysocki, Charles Ray, Leonard Deenik, Frank Baumann, and Sam Calander) as well as, apparently, notes of the few actually in attendance.

Notes and Drafts includes draft articles, notes and ideas for lectures, and similar material--even a sheet of hunger march songs from 4 March 1933.

The Publications folder contains a selection of lesser publications: fund raising letters from 1950, 1953, 1958, 1959, and 1961; Proletarian News flyers and subscription forms, some with Kerr book offers attached; Kerr book announcements (as late as 1967)and order lists (e.g., 1958, 1964); a few fragments of the party Constitution; some proofs of the mimeographed Proletarian Newsletter and Bulletin (1961, 1962, 1964), a copy of the party Principles and Program (1957?), and some fragmentary issues of The Proletarian (April and May, 1925).