{"value"=>"<p>General correspondence, chiefly of Gertrude Beeks Easley, C. L. Edgar (chairman of the department) and Edmund S. Cogswell (director of research) with actuaries, businessmen, insurance companies, economists, employee associations, social workers, government officials, libraries, labor unions, federal, state, and local politicians, and others, seeking subscriptions to finance the publication of a study by the department on the extent of old age dependency; requesting information regarding pension systems; notifying nominees of their appointment to serve on a special survey committee; and other letters relating to different aspects of the general subject of old age dependency and old age pension schemes.</p> <p>Correspondents included are: M.W. Alexander (Massachusetts Commission on Old Age Pensions), C.W. Blackmore (National Association of Civil Service Employees), Charles Bonaparte, Henry Brewer (Winchester Repeating Arms Company), Eben W. Burnstead (Civic Welfare Alliance), D.L. Cease (editor of The Railroad Trainman), Charity Organization Society, The Commonwealth Fund, Roland P. Falkner, Clarence J. Hicks (American Telephone and Telegraph Company), Leroy A. Lincoln (Metropolitan Life Assurance Company), George T. Morgan (United States Civil Service Retirement Association), and the National Association of Civil Service Employees. Of particular interest are the letters of Anson Berry (Interborough Rapid Transit Company, New York), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Charles W. Commons (organizer of the Chicago branch of the United States Civil Service Retirement Association), William H. Matthew (Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor), James H. Maurer (Pennsylvania Federation of Labor), Lolita Van Rensselaer (Executive Secretary of NCF's Woman's Department), Arthur Williams (New York Edison Company), and Matthew Woll (American Federation of Labor).</p>"}