Correspondence with and articles by public Communist Party members are found here including Archie Brown, Sam Darcy, Gus Hall and Nils Lannge. Also included is a large file of correspondence with Gus Rystaad who may have been a Communist Party member but was not a public official. He was an ILWU member and a Marxist; his correspondence deals with the ILWU, the Communist Party and its policies. With historians having access to the Communist Party (USA) archives deposited in Moscow, the subject of HRB’s relationship with the Communist Party is of ongoing interest. For that reason, this correspondence with Community Party public officials was drawn from files throughout the collection and placed together in this series. Also included in this series is correspondence with Gus Rystaad. Although his Communist Party membership ended in 1947, he was an ILWU member and a Marxist and made many references to the activities of Communists