[2 Scrapbooks, holiday cards & some correspondences, 1940-1945]

LIFE TIME & LIFE BUILDING ROCKEFELLER CENTER NEW YORK

EXECUTIVE OFFICES

April 30, 1941.

Miss Alyse Anderson 762 S. Martin Street Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Miss Anderson,

Just a note to thank you for permitting me to take up so much of your time last Monday. It was, meanwhile, a pleasure to have met and talked with you about your famous sister.

I was indeed sorry to have learned of Mrs. Fauset's accident. I tried hard to go see her, but the time passed so rapidly I couldn't make it. However, I shall probably be in your city again in the near future and shall have more time to see folk.

I shall be expecting the excerpts from the letters and any other information you desire to forward to me about your sister. Thanks again for your assistance; I am certain I would have been lost in Philadelphia without it.

Sincerely,

Earl Brown [signature]

[NOTE: there is another letter underneath this one]

LAW OFFICES Morris B. LEVITT MARKET ST. NATIONAL BANK BLDG. JUNIPER AND MARKET STREETS PHILADELPHIA, PA. RITTENHOUSE 3133 RACE 9934

January 6, 1943

Miss Alyse Anderson 762 S. Martin St. Philadelphia, Penna.

Dear Miss Anderson:

Although I expressed my thanks to you last evening for your untiring efforts in making the presentation ceremonies in connection with the Brith Sholom Award to your sister, Marian, possible, I could not help but write to you of my heartfelt gratitude for your splendid co-operation. Your sister, Marian, is a grand person and the same applies to the other members of her family.

With kindest wishes, I am

Sincerely yours,

MORRIS B. LEVITT - Chairman of the Brith Sholom Annual Citizen's Award Committee

MBL:BM

Bequests toward an endownment Fund will enlarge our service to youth.

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St. George's Church in the City of New York

Address by the Rev. Elmore M. McKee in honor of Mr. Harry T. Burleigh at the service of Negro Spirituals, May 21st, 1939

Three points are relatively clear about the music to which we have just listened, and which has made us feel so keenly the pathos and deep meaning of human existence.

First: the colored race has enriched the culture of mankind by the gift of the "spiritual". We rejoice that St. George's choir has been a pioneer in bringing this music into the heart of the church's worship. The music of the spiritual and the deep faith behind it form a primary bond of unity between human brothers separated by secondary, external factors. This great unifying power of the arts must be explored to the full. When in the national capital recently the use of a public auditorium was denied, on quite inadequate technical grounds, to a great artist, the majority of the people of our free land rose up, I believe, to proclaim from thier very hearts: "Such things shall not be". The open air tribute before the beautiful Lincoln Memorial was out answer to Marian Anderson.

So, let us all pray our way together, and sing our way together, into a greater realization of the brotherhood of man. For we all, from every race and nation, being to one God.

Secondly: this great art grows out of suffering used creatively. A reace enslaved first, and when so-called freedom came, denied equality of opportunity in franchise, employment, education, and many other means of full living, -this people has used it's suffering not as stimulus to complaint or rebellion or escape, but to urge toward creation. People react to suffering in different ways: As a Hebrew writer put it: "There are three ways in which a man expresses his deep sorrow: the man on the lowest level cries; the man on the second level is silent, but the man on the highest level knows how to turn his sorrow into song." To translate suffering into song, under the compulsion of simple, child-like faith, such as that expressed in Deep River, -this is the gift of the colored people to a human race searching for light in it's darkness.

[Postcard]

Having a fine Miss. Alyce Anderson time! A very 262 So. Martin lovely country. Philadelphia, People have been Pa. wonderful to us. U.S.A. They remember Marian with great affection. Regards to all.

[Luther ?]

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Happy Birthday