Series 3 - Correspondence

Identity area

Reference code

UTA 1287-3

Title

Correspondence

Date(s)

  • 1959-2013 (Creation)

Level of description

Series

Extent and medium

1.21 m of textual records (1 file includes photographs)
1 audio cassette

Context area

Name of creator

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence between Dr. Franklin and friends, family, colleagues, government officials, and others. Correspondence pertains to the full scope of Dr. Franklin’s life and work, including her academic work, her political activism, and her personal life.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Select correspondence from the 1970s and 1980s was kept alphabetically, and this arrangement has been maintained for that material. The rest of the correspondence was initially disorganized, in loose chronological order. This material was organized into chronological order, by year. Where a significant amount of material from one correspondent was found together, it was put in the alphabetical section. Dr. Franklin had marked some folders ‘personal,’ and this labeling has been retained in the file title. This does not mean, however, that the other folders may not also contain personal correspondence. In addition, a correspondent with their own ‘alphabetical file’ may also be found in the chronological files.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Open

Conditions governing reproduction

Language of material

    Script of material

      Language and script notes

      Physical characteristics and technical requirements

      Finding aids

      Uploaded finding aid

      Allied materials area

      Existence and location of originals

      Existence and location of copies

      Related units of description

      Early correspondence can be found in series 1, subseries 2 (Early family life and letters). In addition, correspondence relating to particular functions can often be found throughout the fonds, in the relevant series.

      Related descriptions

      Notes area

      Alternative identifier(s)

      Reference number

      B1996-0004/007

      Reference number

      B2015-0005/002-/011

      Access points

      Subject access points

      Place access points

      Name access points

      Genre access points

      Description control area

      Description identifier

      Institution identifier

      Rules and/or conventions used

      Dates of creation revision deletion

      Language(s)

        Script(s)

          Sources

          Accession area