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Krek's correspondence, manuscripts, subject files, and printed materials concern the London Yugoslav government-in-exile during World War II. There are one or two letters each in the collection from Louis Adamic, Edvard Beneš, and Anthony Eden. There are files of correspondence and related materials from or to such Yugoslav leaders as Slobodan Jovanoviʹc, Dušan Simoviʹc, and Franc Snoj, and also several files on events in Slovenia during the war.

Working files for the book SPECIAL ENVOY TO CHURCHILL AND STALIN, 1914-1946 by William Averell Harriman and Elie Abel, containing typescript drafts with handwritten corrections of Harriman's recollections; typescript notes; photocopies of American, British, and Soviet (in translation) diplomatic correspondence, memoranda, and reports; speeches and other writings by Harriman; and related background materials. The period covered is 1941-1946 and 1951-1954. Among the photocopies are letters from Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Edward Stettinius, Harry Hopkins, Dean Acheson, Charles Bohlen, Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Andrei Vyshinsky, Winston Churchill, and Anthony Eden. Also, five letters from Harriman to Abel written in 1973-1974, concerning the details of writing this book (these are the only letters cataloged in this collection).