{"value"=>"<p>Subseries contains letters from family, friends and lovers from Wisconsin and New York, the Freedom newspaper, business associates and well-wishers from Chicago, New York and Wisconsin, as well as copies of outgoing correspondence. Correspondents include her parents Carl and Mamie, brothers Carl, Horace, and Perry, Jr., her uncle William Leo Hansberry, Freedom publisher Louis Burnham and his wife, Dorothy, and Robert Nemiroff. There are also letters from W. E. B. DuBois, his wife, Shirley, Eslanda Robeson, and Daisy Bates. There is also a small number of original and photocopies of outgoing letters written by Hansberry.</p> <p>The letters from her family concern her father's health (he died in Mexico in 1946); the family business, Hansberry Enterprises; as well as congratulatory letters following her success with A Raisin in the Sun. The letters from William Leo Hansberry, African studies scholar, anthropologist and archeologist, to Lorraine were written between 1952 and 1963. Dr. Hansberry sent letters from Washington, D. C., congratulating his niece on the success of A Raisin in the Sun, and from Ghana about the Hansberry College of African Studies at the University of Nigeria, which was named in his honor, among other matters.</p> <p>General correspondence includes inquiries to Hansberry about donating her papers to the University of Wisconsin's Wisconsin Center for Theatre Research; reactions to A Raisin in the Sun, and professional business matters. Both Hansberry and Nemiroff annotated a few of the letters.</p> <p>The file for Seymour Baldash, 1957-1964, the Nemiroff's attorney, contains correspondence, affidavits and an order of dismissal relating to the case, \"City of Chicago vs. Nannie L. Hansberry, et al\"., to compel repairs to the Hansberry properties in Chicago (Lorraine was subsequently dismissed as a defendant.) There are letters written to and from Hansberry about her business affairs including her partnership in the family's real estate business, Hansberry Enterprises in Chicago, as well as some information on management of her royalties, and other general business activities. Correspondence related to a request from Hansberry's mother, Mamie Hansberry Tubbs in February 1960, for a \"statement of assets\" from her daughter, together with the statement are filed here. The main body of Hansberry's business correspondence concerning royalties and related matters is filed in the PROFESSIONAL series.</p>"}