Dated December 1st, 1942. Photocopy of a typed note written by an unknown person, most likely Rukeyser, on the word “surpass”: “Somehow, the word for surpassing, the word for a tremendous spiritual effort that will bring our total culture through, discarding and refining as it strengthens–that word is needed.” Handwritten notes in Rukeyser’s handwriting:”by a tremendous and total effort, one civilization can grow in every part so that it can forever crush the fascist threat of brutalizing [?] whatever good we have gained, and killing a great part of both good and evil.”