{"value"=>"<p>General correspondence includes incoming and outgoing correspondence of Henry George on family, political, and business matters. Henry George's letters to his wife, Annie Fox George, and elder son, Henry George, Jr., are included here; their letters to him are in Series VI (Family Papers). There are also many letters to and from Henry George's parents and other relatives. Early correspondence concerns his sea voyage and his life and work in California. The bulk of the series chronicles his relations with political associates in the Single Tax and Irish nationalist movements in America and Europe. There is also extensive correspondence with editors and publishers concerning his journalistic work and other writing projects.</p> <p> A letterbook of 1869 contains copies of letters relating to his work for the San Francisco <span class=\"title\">Herald</span> and his dealings with the Associated Press. Four letterbooks of 1881-1882 consist mostly of letters written from Britain to Patrick Ford, editor of the (New York) <span class=\"title\">Irish World;</span> these give detailed assessments of the policies and actions of Charles Stewart Parnell, Michael Davitt, and other leaders of the Irish Land League, as well as reports of his lectures and meetings with English and Scottish sympathizers.</p> <p> The American correspondence charts the development of the Single Tax movement and George's relations with major political supporters, among them Father Edward McGlynn, Francis G. Shaw, August Lewis, Tom L. Johnson, Louis F. Post, Thomas G. Shearman, and Dr. Edward R. Taylor, a California friend.</p> <p> Among the notable British correspondents are H. M. Hyndman, Helen Taylor, J. L. Joynes, F. Max Müller, and Thomas F. Walker of Birmingham.</p> <p> Smaller subseries include a scrapbook of letters related to a testimonial dinner in 1884; correspondence of Father Thomas Dawson, an Irish priest and longtime family friend, consisting chiefly of transcripts of George's letters to Dawson in the Brotherton Library, Leeds; and documentation of the tangled litigation arising from a legacy of George Hutchins of Ancora, New Jersey to Henry George.</p>"}