{"value"=>"<p>This series contains the letters, documents, and writings of literary editor David I. Segal. The letters are both incoming items and carbon copies of outgoing mail spanning 1946 to 1970. These primarily document David Segal's professional activities as a literary editor and include related office documents and attachments such as publication lists. Many of the letters are communications with authors about their work, and responses from reviewers, some of them prominent writers such as Anthony Burgess reviewing Hind's Kidnap, and Philip Roth on Cynthia Ozick (both 1970). Several letters are accompanied by typescripts of poems, essays, and reviews. Of note are many early letters to his parents from his time in school at Michigan and early in his career, letters from novelist Frederick Exley, and a stack of carbon copies of letters from David Segal to every author he editing at Harper Row announcing his departure from the company for Knopf (June 22, 1970).</p> <p>The Writings section is comprised of typescripts of book reviews, theater reviews, essays, and letters to the editor from the 1950s and 1960s, as well as an undated typescript story entitled \"Seek.\" There is also a folder of writings from David and Lore's friends and colleagues, such as poems by Denise Levertov (\"The Ninetieth Year\"), Cynthia Ozick (\"Fire-Foe\"), George P. Elliott (\"Young Women's Song\"), Larry Ross (\"Mors Amoris\" and The Imaging\"), and the Leonard Michaels short story \"Binoculars.\" Documents include address books, month-at-a-glance calendars (1962-1969), and a correspondence register for David Segal's time at Knopf (1970).</p>"}