{"value"=>"<p>This series consists of Lore Segal's biographical documents and write-ups, her incoming letters, her sketches, and drafts and edits of her writings.</p> <p>The Biographical Material section contains items that document Lore Segal's life, such as a baby book; diaries; educational documents; travel, medical and banking documents; printed biographies, interviews, clippings; and materials concerned with the Kindertransport documentary <span class=\"title\">Into the Arms of Strangers</span> (2000) that featured Lore and Franzi.</p> <p>The Correspondence section has general correspondence organized by individual senders, and chronological files of letters spanning 1938 to 2009. These letters provide a window into Segal's personal and social life as well as her professional, intellectual, academic, and creative endeavors. The general correspondence section contains letters from individual letter writers or concerning specific events. These include groups of items to Lore from several friends in England (1945-1960); letters from friends and literary colleagues George and Mary Elliott, Ruth and Peter Gay, Maurice Sendak, Mona Van Duyn, and others; sympathy letters on the deaths of David Segal (1970) and Franzi Groszmann (2005); and letters between Lore and David Segal, primarily dating from Lore's stay at Yaddo in 1960. The chronological correspondence consists of incoming letters from family, friends, collaborators, colleagues, publishers, students, and fan mail.</p> <p>The Sketches section contains two sketchbooks and many loose sketches created by Lore Segal from throughout her life. Most are pencil and pen portraits. Additional sketches can be found in various letters throughout the collection.</p> <p>The Writings section contains material related to Segal's novels, children's books, short stories, essays, reviews, lectures, and translations. These items document her entire creative process from early notes and drafts, to later drafts and indexes, to edits and feedback from editors, to corrected galley proofs. There are letters from editors, publishers, colleagues, and friends giving feedback and personal reactions to her writing, as well as letters from readers, young and old, who shared their appreciation for the books and stories with the author. Also present are Segal’s contracts and communications with publishers and agents. This section contains several unpublished stories and essays, along with juvenilia, saved by her mother, from as early as the 1940s, and floppy disks containing drafts of stories, novels and essays. Best documented are Segal's novels <span class=\"title\">Other People's Houses</span> and <span class=\"title\">Her First American</span>. Material relating to <span class=\"title\">Other People's Houses</span> includes Segal's earliest attempts at developing her memories of the Kindertransport and her life in England into prose, as well as drafts of each chapter originally published in the New Yorker. Several reader response letters are from Jews who as children also escaped on the Kindertransport. <span class=\"title\">Her First American</span> material, which spans an 18-year period, includes early drafts and notes, an \"Aborted Novel,” folder’s of unused material labeled “Carter,” and her screenplay for <span class=\"title\">Her First American</span> developed for Pippa Scott. These folders have been kept in their original order.</p>"}