{"value"=>"<p>Included are several files of letters received by Hillard, 1895-1914 and undated concerning both personal and prohibition matters. Of note is a long letter, 1901, from John Koch, a United States soldier at Matanzas, Cuba, describing activities of Koch's troop (E Troop 2, United States Cavalry) and complaining about the prohibitionists' efforts to close down army canteens. Some miscellaneous, personal, printed materials of Hillard's, including business cards describing him as a Prohibition Party representative are also included.</p> <p>Following these is material whose relation to Hillard is not always clear. Included are: advertising brochures, 1901, and blank workers' time sheets of the Buttle Parquet Floor Company, Brooklyn and Manhattan, and several small memorandum and calendar books, 1904, containing notes on kegs of nails, finish, wood, and other woodworking supplies in commercial quantities (one pocket calendar was published by the Union Medical Council, New York City, 1904, and contains extensive information about men's sexual disorders); one file relates to paper box manufacturing and contains Hillard's business cards as President, Local 2, New York, N. Y., Paper Box, Bag, and Novelty Workers International Union, and other printed material relating to the paper box making industry and the union; printed subscription and advertising material from the New Voice, the Defender, and other, largely, prohibition publications - a 1905 letter from the New Voice to Hillard contains a request for New York City prohibition news. One file contains prohibition songs in published songbooks and song sheets and in manuscript; another contains letters to Hillard, March-April, 1897, from the Sons of Confederate Veterans concerning their parade to Grant's Tomb on April 27, in which Hillard was to be a participant; tickets, programs, leaflets, and other printed material relating to meetings held in New York, 1900, by the New York Committee to Aid the United Republics of South Africa and possibly other groups; constitutions, by-laws, reports, agreements, and other printed material concerning New York City unions representing workers in the wood and metal trades; one leaflet issued by the New York Typographical Union concerns a strike against the New York Sun [1899].</p> <p>Miscellaneous manuscript material is included and this consists of lists of names, accounts, rough manuscripts of speeches, statistics on liquor, a typescript poem, a list describing daily activities, April 1-26,1898 (mostly preparations for and attendance at prohibition events), and notes and memoranda. A file of miscellaneous printed material is also included.</p>"}