{"value"=>"<p>Major Topics: Catholic Church and Black community; Ira Aldridge; Black and Creole music; Black newspapers in New York City; SCNLA funding for Othello sculpture and gifts to collection; legislation relating to Black people in New York State; book collecting; 18th century writers' influence on Black writers; NYPL administrative matters; Schomburg biography and resignation from New York Urban League; correspondence to Langston Hughes concerning Aleksander Pushkin, Cuban writers.</p>"}