Scope and Contents The Henry Lesser Collection (1928-1994) consists of Lesser’s personal papers as well as those of Joel Goodman, Lesser’s friend and a graduate of San Diego State’s criminal justice administration master’s degree program.Lesser’s papers span his time working in the prison profession in the 1920s and ‘30s, the four subsequent decades he spent trying to publish the Panzram writings, and his final years, in which he donated the ...