ERIC A. SEVAREID - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 05/11/1971 - HFSID 321162

ERIC A. SEVAREID
Renowned journalist sends letter to graduate student about his past work, hoping it would be useful
Typed letter signed: "Eric Sevareid" in black ink. 1 page, 8½x11. Original envelope included. Written on CBS News letterhead. May 11, 1971. Washington, D.C. In full: "Dear Mrs. Winnick, I've read your letter and the prospectus. Good luck. I think there have been one or two or maybe more theses written about me by graduate students, but I don't know where they are. My own past files, most of them, up to the last four years or so are on deposit and on view at the Library of Congress. Any qualified scholar, with my permission and the Library's, can look into them. I have no objection to your so doing. I think you know about my stuff in book form - "Canoeing with the Cree"; "Not so Wild a Dream." "In One Ear." "Small Sounds in the Night." This is Eric Sevareid." I edited and did the introduction for Candidates 1960", published by Basic Books in 1959, I think. I helped edit a big, coffee table volume called "Washington, - Magnificent Capital" No writing in it very specifically mine, though. A fair piece about me in the Washington Star Sunday Magazine, in the summer of 1969. An accurate interview in Baltimore Magazine, of about two months ago. You'll find a lot of interviews - TV Guide, etc. I wrote a lot for the Minnesota Daily in my college years, including a column of alleged humor. Thousands of radio and TV scripts, of course, if you have the time and fortitude to wade through them. Best wishes". After a brief stint as a newspaper reporter, Sevareid (1912-1992) joined CBS News in Europe before WWII and spent the rest of his life in broadcast journalism. Despite his scholarly image in later years, Sevareid was a swashbuckling war correspondent, whose exploits included parachuting into the Burmese jungle. National correspondent on the CBS Evening News (1964-1977), he deplored the slow surrender of broadcast journalism to popular showmanship. The author of several books, including Not So Wild a Dream (1946), a study of the generation that lived through the Depression and WWII, he narrated several TV documentaries after his official retirement from CBS news. Normal mailing folds. Light surface creases. Toned. Otherwise, fine condition.