Fr. James P.J. Murphy Photograph and Correspondence Collection Series 2, Box 1, circa 1883-1962
| Category | Name |
Date Range |
Number of Letters |
| Actors | - |
- |
- |
| - | Robert Benchley |
1936 |
1 |
| - | Helen Hayes |
1957 |
1 |
| - | Eva Le Galliene |
1956 |
1 |
| - | Carlotta Monterey O'Neill (wife of Eugene O'Neill |
1945, 1946, 1950 |
3 |
| Composers | - |
- |
- |
| - | Franz Bornschein |
1938 |
1 |
| - | Gustave Charpentier |
1938 |
1 |
| - | Alberto Franchetti |
1937 |
1 |
| - | Ferde Grofe |
1934 |
1 |
| - | Roy Harris |
1938, 1949, n.d. |
3 |
| - | Paul Hindemith |
1953 |
1 |
| - | Charles Ives | 1939, 1949, 1950, 1954 | 4 |
| - | Ildebrando Pizzetti | 1955 | 1 |
| - | Jean Roger-Ducasse | 1937 | 1 |
| - | Roger Sessions | 1935, 1950 | 2 |
| - | Jean Sibelius (note from secretary) | 1957 | 1 |
| - | Virgil Thomson | 1942 | 1 |
| - | Ralph Vaughn Williams | n.d. | 1 |
| Poets | - | - | - |
| - | W.H. Auden | 1949 | 2 |
| - | Leonard Baskin | 1959, 1963 | 2 |
| - | R.P. Blackmur | 1962 | 1 |
| - | Richard Eberhart | 1962 | 1 |
| - | Isabella Gardner | 1962 | 2 |
| - | Edgar A. Guest | 1933, 1935 | 2 |
| - | Randall Jarrell | n.d. | 2 |
| - | Robinson Jeffers (note from Una Jeffers) | 1936, 1937, 1952 | 3 |
| - | Ring Lardner | 1932 | 1 |
| - | Denise Leverton | n.d. | 1 |
| - | Archibald MacLeish | 1936, 1954 | 2 |
| - | Edgar Lee Masters | 1936 | 1 |
| - | Marianne Craig Moore | 1946-51, 1954, 1956-59, n.d. | 33 |
| - | Herbert Read | 1956, 1957 | 2 |
| - | Adrienne Rich | 1952 | 1 |
| - | Carl Sandberg | 1951 | 2 |
| - | Karl Shapiro | 1962 | 1 |
| - | W.D. Snodgrass | 1962 | 2 |
| - | Andre Spire | 1945 | 1 |
| - | Wallace Stevens | 1946, 1951, 1952, 1954 | 4 |
| - | Mark Van Doren | 1962 | 1 |
| - | Peter Vierick | 1950, 1952 | 2 |
| - | Richard Wilbur | 1952, 1956, 1959, 1961, 1962, n.d. | 6 |
| Public Figures | - | - | - |
| - | Ben Abramson | 1953, 1954 | 3 |
| - | Charles Curtis | 1932 | 1 |
| - | George Dobsevage | 1938 | 1 |
| - | Albert Einstein (note from secretary) | 1942, 1950, 1954 | 3 |
| - | Charles E. Hughes | 1945 | 1 |
| - | Albert Schweitzer (corr. with Nurse Ali Silver and Dr. Schweitzer's secretary) | 1946, 1955-57, 1959 | 8 |
| - | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1956 | 1 |
| - | Mary Wallace Greenwell | 1991 | 1 |
| Visual Artists | - | - | - |
| - | Jean Arp (note from secretary) | 1954 | 1 |
| - | Richmond Barthe | 1954 | 1 |
| - | Thomas Hart Benton | n.d. | 1 |
| - | Peter Q. Blum | 1944 | 1 |
| - | Cameron Booth | n.d. | 1 |
| - | Charles Burchfield | 1956 | 1 |
| - | Marc Chagall (one signed paper, multiple letters from wife Vava Chagall) | 1946, 1957-61 | 6 |
| - | John Steuart Curry | 1938 | 1 |
| - | Rube Goldberg | 1935 | 1 |
| - | Rockwell Kent | 1948, 1955-56 | 4 |
| - | Oskar Kokoschka (letters from wife Olda Kokoschka) | 1947, 1952, 1956 | 3 |
| - | Henry Moore | 1954 | 1 |
| - | Robert Motherwell | 1944 | 1 |
| - | Maxfield Parrish | 1945, 1947 | 3 |
| - | Virgil Partch | 1949 | 1 |
| - | Arthur Rackham | 1931 | 2 |
| - | Man Ray | n.d. | 1 |
| - | Ben Shahn | 1945, 1951, 1953 | 3 |
| - | Maurice Utrillo (letter from secretary) | 1950 | 1 |
| - | Grant Wood | 1937 | 1 |
| - | Jack B. Yeats | 1939, 1946-47, 1951-57 | 10 |
| Writers | - | - | - |
| - | Hervey Allen | 1945 | 2 |
| - | Deborah Benson Covington (daughter of Ben Abramson) | 1955 | 1 |
| - | Henry Beston | 1952, 1954-60, n.d. | 31 |
| - | William Carlos Williams | 1951 | 1 |
| - | William Faulkner (letter from secretary) | 1954 | 1 |
| - | Edna Ferber | 1944 | 1 |
| - | Moss Hart | 1959 | 1 |
| - | Lillian Hellman | 1952 | 1 |
| - | Ernest Hemingway (letter from wife Mary Hemingway) | 1957 | 1 |
| - | John Hersey | 1956 | 1 |
| - | James Hilton | 1950 | 1 |
| - | Aldous Huxley | 1951 | 2 |
| - | George Kelly | 1958 | 1 |
| - | H.P. Lovecraft | 1933-34 | 2 |
| - | Walter de la Mare | 1931, 1937-38, 1955-56 | 9 |
| - | Christopher Morley | 1926, 1937, 1941-44, 1951-52 | 14 |
| - | Reinhold Niebuhr | 1945 | 1 |
| - | Sean O'Casey | 1950, 1953, 1956-58 | 6 |
| - | Clifford Odets | 1960 | 1 |
| - | Katherine Anne Porter | 1956 | 2 |
| - | John C. Powy | 1931 | 2 |
| - | Marjorie Rawlings | 1945 | 1 |
| - | Agnes Repplier | 1938 | 2 |
| - | May Sarton | 1962 | 1 |
| - | Upton Sinclair | 1944 | 1 |
| - | William Styron | 1952 | 1 |
| - | James Thurber | 1945, 1952, 1961-62 | 5 |
| - | Thornton Wilder | 1945 | 1 |
| - | Joseph Wood Krutch | 1956 | 1 |
| Unknown | 1936-39, 1941, 1946, 1949, 1954, 1962, n.d. | 16 |
