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Karsner, David, 1889-1941.
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Rights to the letters from Eugene V. Debs are owned by the Eugene V. Debs Foundation.
Collection consists of correspondence, writings, legal papers, photographs, and printed matter. Correspondence, 1912-1926, with Debs and others concerns socialist issues and the trial and imprisonment for treason of Debs. Also, some writings by Debs and Karsner, papers related to Debs's trial, photographs of Debs, and printed items.
David Fulton Karsner (1889-1941) was an American journalist and biographer. After working on newspapers inChicago, Philadelphia and New York City, he became managing editor of the socialist newspaper The New York Call. He wrote books about his associate Eugene V. Debs, the socialist leader and presidential candidate, and biographies of Andrew Jackson and others.
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