{"value"=>"<p>Howard's correspondence is with friends; family members; architects, landscape architects, and other colleagues; clients; and employers, and concerns both personal and professional matters. Frequent correspondents are: Prince Edgar Serge de Bourbon and family; Prof. Antonio Frabisilis; Count Jacques des Garets; Alfred H. Louis, on whom Edwin Arlington Robinson based the central character in his poem \"Captain Craig;\" architect Frank Mead; Dr. Oscar Wentworth Rogers, who attempted to cure Howard's ill wife Lucy Freeman French Howard with a \"Dynamo current\"; composer Bertram Shapleigh; and his uncle, Civil War general Oliver Otis Howard.</p> <p>Correspondence among Howard family members, chiefly of Maine and Vermont, dating from 1861, includes a letter by Howard's father Robert B. Howard, 1863, from the battlefield at Gettysburg after the Rebel retreat.</p>"}