Correspondence

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The correspondence series contains personal and professional letters to and from Dorothy Porter Wesley and family. The General Correspondence sub-series documents Dorothy Porter Wesley's professional career as a librarian and curator at Howard University. Correspondence covers her participation in professional and national organizations such as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University, Black Women in Sisterhood for Action, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Frederick Douglass Papers, Library of Congress, Black Caucus of the American Library Association, and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University. Dorothy Porter Wesley received letters from scholars and professionals such as Thomas Battle, John Blassingame, Louis Harlan, Mary McLeod Bethune, Joseph Reason, and Michael Winston.

The Family Correspondence subseries contains personal letters written to and from Dorothy Porter Wesley's family members including her daughter Constance Porter Uzelac, first husband James A. Porter, second husband Charles Harris Wesley, and brother in-law Robert P. Porter.

Letters are organized in two sub-series: General Correspondence and Family Correspondence. Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by last name and chronologically within folders. Each sub-series concludes with unidentified and first name correspondence, invitations, and empty envelopes.

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