{"value"=>"<p>Letters to Paul Kester from stage performers, authors, editors, playwrights, personal friends, etc. relative to his career as dramatist and author (arranged alphabetically) [18 ctns] ; his letters to his mother, 1888-1924, his brother Vaughan and other family members [2 ctns] ; a few manuscripts of his writings incl. his novel Diana Dauntless, and galley proofs of his novel His Own Country [1 ctn] ; personal financial and miscellaneous papers incl. contracts and agreements, royalty statements, clippings and photographs [6 ctns] ; papers relating to Edith Louisa Cavell [1865-1915] papers relating to gypsies, etc. [1 ctn]. Also, papers of his brother Vaughan Kester [1869-1911, journalist and author] [2 ctns] ; his mother Harriet Watkins Kester [d. 1926, a founder of Cleveland School of Art], Jessie Jennings Kester [wife of Vaughan Kester], incl. their letters to him, and letters of other family members [5 ctns]. Correspondents of Paul Kester include: Margaret Anglin, David Belasco, Charles B. Dillingham, Minnie Maddern Fiske, William Dean Howells, Fanny Janauschek, Klaw & Erlanger, Lily Langtry, Julia Marlowe, George Middleton, E. H. Sothern, and Paul Wilstach.</p> <p>The remaining papers in this section are miscellaneous papers, photographs of the Kester family and small collections of other individuals papers. Kester collected papers about other individuals including Edith Louisa Cavell (1865-1915), an English nurse executed during W. W. I., Paul Wilstach (1870-), novelist and associate and gypsies.</p>"}