He continued to add to the collection up until the time of his death. The E.B. White Collection consists of approximately 36,000 items, including 2,350 books and other printed items, more than 28,000 letters, and 5,500 related items such as manuscripts, documents, clippings, photographs, films, notecards, cassette tapes, bound photocopies, medals and awards by, to, or about E.B. White, spanning the entire range of his activities throughout his life.
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Over the course of his life, his writing appeared in the Cornell Daily Sun , the Seattle Times , Harper's magazine, Holiday , Atlantic Monthly , the New York World , and the New York Times , among others. He is best known, however, for his association with the New Yorker magazine. Beginning in 1925, White contributed poems, short stories, essays, profiles, and newsbreaks to the pages of the New Yorker . The collection contains White's contributions to the New Yorker and other magazines, his editorials for his high school newspaper, and ca. 350 articles about him, including interviews and reviews.