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Scope and contents From the Series: This correspondence reflects Towns’ personal, professional and literary life. Much of the correspondence regards Towns’ efforts to publish his writings. His correspondence with the Atlanta University presidents and faculty, Myron Adams, Horace Bumstead, Edgar H. Webster, reveal the friendships between the men that extended beyond purely professional interests. Of note are the letters between Bumstead and Towns regarding the latter’s letter to The Guardian supporting William Monroe...