Seven letters, six typed and one handwritten, from Kent to his friend and collaborator, Alex Geckler. The two men began their relationship in 1912 while working as aspiring painters in Winona, Minnesota. Within the letters Kent recounts personal details, but threaded throughout are his strident political opinions, which would eventually bring him before the House Un-American Activities Committee. In the penultimately dated letter of this set, he bewails the onset of post-WWII imperialist tactics by the United States, noting that people in Asia hate the U.S. as an incarnation "of the Devil himself." All letters fine and stored in original envelopes. An important biographical archive.