Series 4: Writings, 1936-1983

The Writings series contains published and unpublished material written by Spiegelman and his colleagues. It contains reprints, drafts, reports, correspondence, notes, laboratory notes, speeches, photographs, and slides. The series is organized chronologically by date and alphabetically by folder title. It includes published works concerning Spiegelman's experiments with RNA-DNA hybridization and the biological mechanics of cancerous cells, in particular leukemia and breast cancer. Materials of significance are Spiegelman's collected bound reprints, which are grouped by date and cover his published career. The Illustrations sub-series contains images used for publication purposes. Unfortunately, there is little or no textual evidence to indicate how and when the images were used; however, some folder titles do provide a modicum of information and may refer to specific articles.