University of Wyoming
Reynolds Packard (1903-1976) was an author and a foreign correspondent. He and his wife, Eleanor (1905-1972), worked for United Press in the 1930s and 1940s, and then for "The New York Daily News," 1948-1972. He covered the Spanish Civil War with the Franco forces, 1936-1939, revolutions in South America (Buenos Aires), World War II with the U.S. Fifth Army from North Africa to Italy, and the Civil War in China up to 1947. Eleanor and Reynolds reopened the United Press office in Rome in 1939. Packard's published works include: "Balcony Empire: Fascist Italy at War" (1942), co-authored with his wife, "Dateline: Paris" (1959), "Rome Was My Beat" (1975), and "Paris Was My Beat" (1976).
The collection contains correspondence with publishers, 1974-1976, and manuscripts and manuscript outlines, both published ("Balcony Empire", "Paris Was My Beat") and unpublished ("The Red Duchess"), as well as files on Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI with parts of unpublished manuscripts. Two copies of "World of Fear" (1965), published in Italy, and "Balcony Empire" (1942) are included as well as several undated notebooks. There are photographs of Packard with John Steinbeck, Ingrid Bergman, Elizabeth Taylor among others.
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There are no known other archival collections created by Reynolds Packard at the date of processing.
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