{"value"=>"<p>Stein's personal life is documented through letters, photographs, legal documents, scrapbooks, articles, and other documents. The largest section of Series II is the run of Friends and Family Files, in which letters, articles, and photographs are arranged by name. These files, arranged by Stein or her assistants, cover the years 1959 to 2015. Some files contain only one note, clipping, letter, or photograph, while others are more extensive. In many cases these include research materials. Many of the individuals who became the subjects of Stein's research and writing projects were also her personal friends, so there is a significant overlap between Series I and the Friends and Family Files and Correspondence sections of Series II.</p> <p>Personal correspondence most extensively documents a period of Stein's life during the mid-1950s, when she lived as a wealthy ex-patriate in Europe and befriended many prominent artists, writers, and composers in Europe and America. Her correspondents from this period include Leonard Bernstein, Charles Brackett, Aaron Copland, Cheryl Crawford, Nicholas Nabokov, Harold Prince, Ned Rorem, Madeline Sherwood, Stephen Sondheim, and Terry Southern. Correspondence also includes many letters between Stein and her parents and other family members. Later correspondence is also included here, but many of Stein's letters from 1970 and later are filed with friends and family files or the alphabetical research files on <span class=\"title\">Edie</span> and <span class=\"title\">West of Eden</span>.</p> <p>There are also 121 letters, notes, and telegrams Stein received from novelist William Faulkner, with whom she had a romantic relationship, between 1954 and 1962. Some of the Faulkner letters contain original drawings and photographs. Files on Faulkner include research materials, interview transcripts, notes, drafts and manuscripts for \"The Art of Fiction,\" Stein's 1956 article on Faulkner for <span class=\"title\">The Paris Review</span>. There are also autographed copies of two Faulkner novels with personal inscriptions to Stein and other autographed gifts.</p> <p>Photographs of Stein and her family and friends include loose photographs, photographs organized in scrapbooks, and baby books.</p> <p>Legal and financial files document the position of Stein's family and the inheritance she received from her parents and MCA. Business correspondence, financial reports, wills, trusts, marriage and divorce papers, and other documents are included here.</p> <p>Personal files also document Stein's role as a woman of high social station. There are address books and rolodexes; Christmas gift lists and lists of gift ideas; files on leisure activities such as boating, concerts, operas, and shopping; files on home renovations and interior decorating; extensive files on dinners and other social events; and the 1951 Debutante Register.</p>"}