{"value"=>"<p>The subject papers consist of papers relating to copyright, the Edison papers, papers relating to free trade and tariff reform, and to Bowker's biography. The copyright papers include correspondence relative to the promotion and revision of domestic and international copyright law. Correspondents include American Copyright League Robert Underwood Johnson, American Publishers' Copyright League George Haven Putnam, Library of Congress Herbert Putnam, National Association of Book Publishers, Print Publishers Association of America 1890-91, and Thorwald Solberg. The Edison papers include correspondence of Bowker as first vice-president of the Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of New York, with other electric companies, union officials and with George Foster Peabody and Spencer Trask. There is also correspondence 1889-1927 with Thomas Alva Edison and with Miller Reese Hutchison, chief engineer to Edison; correspondence 1898-1903 with the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies, an with Edison Pioneers, The papers relating to free trade and tariff reform include correspondence 1880-1929 of Bowker as secretary of the American Free Trade League and as a member of the York Free Trade Club, relating especially to the organization of the Free Trade Conference held at Detroit 1883. Much of the correspondence is with the Iowa State Free Trade League, the Missouri Free Trade League, the Michigan Free Trade League, and with Mortis Worthington C. Ford, Abraham L. Earle, and George Foster Peabody. There is also printed ephemera and notes and memoranda by Bowker. The papers relating to Bowker's biography consist of correspondence 1931-52 mainly of Rose Weinberg, former personal secretary to Bowker, with Allan Nevins, Trumbull White, E. McClung Fleming, Caroline T. Bowker and others relating to the completion of a biography of Bowker.</p>"}