{"value"=>"<p>Philip Hamburger's correspondence files contain primarily incoming letters, postcards and miscellaneous enclosures. The material is arranged chronologically, and includes items received by Hamburger from professional colleagues, family members and friends. Among those most frequently represented are John Bainbridge, William Maxwell, Katrina McCormick Barnes, Sidney and Brian Urquhart and Timothy Woodman. There are more than twenty letters and cards from S. J. Perelman scattered throughout the correspondence from the 1960s and 1970s. Single items or occasional notes from Arthur Schlessinger, Jr., St. Clair McKelway, Katherine White, E. B. White, Mel Calman, Janet Flanner, Bel Kaufman, Rex Stout, Roger Angell and Brendan Gill also appear. Among the family correspondents are Hamburger's former wife, Edith Iglauer Daly, his sons, Richard and Jay, and his sister-in-law, Rosamond Tirana. In addition, there are several folders of letters from <span class=\"title\">New Yorker</span> readers concerning various articles published in the magazine.</p> <p>There are some additional items of correspondence filed with papers relating to various writing projects contained in Series II, described below. This includes letters to and from various subjects of biographical essays, responses to his published writings and letters of thanks for copies of his books. Notable among the latter are thank-you notes from Walker Evans and Harry S. Truman for copies of <span class=\"title\">An American Notebook</span>, and from J. Edgar Hoover, Cordell Hull and Henry Stimson for copies of <span class=\"title\">The Unconquered People</span>.</p> <p>Finally, there is some additional correspondence from the period of Hamburger's service with the Office of War Information contained in Series III, described below.</p>"}