{"value"=>"<p>The final series, Business records, (1940s-ca.1992, 8.6 lin. ft.) remarkable for its depth and expansiveness, records Baldwin's career as a writer and public speaker spanning over four decades. Along with the Writing series, this series provides a complex look at Baldwin's relationships with publishers, literary agents, lawyers, and other business associates. The files include contracts, correspondence, proposals, royalty statements, telegrams, carbons of Baldwin's letters, and other records.</p> <p> With few exceptions, this series has been kept primarily as it was organized by the Baldwin Estate. Some of these files were possibly maintained by Baldwin's representatives, his sister and secretary Gloria Smart, author David Leeming, secretary Bernard Hassell, and literary agent Robert P. Mills.</p> <p> Invitations to Speak. (1.4 lin. ft.) The subseries features hundreds of letters and telegrams requesting Baldwin to speak from various high schools, colleges and universities, arts councils, libraries, civil rights organizations, religious institutions, and book clubs, to name a few. The letters are often dated and annotated (e.g., \"replied,\" \"out of town,\" \"cancelled,\" etc.) and sometimes include a carbon copy of Baldwin or his representative's responses. These records at best illuminate the author's busy writing, traveling and speaking schedule. In one note to David, Baldwin's brother, an unnamed secretary writes: here are the two lectures Jimmy consented to do. There are about 30 or 40 that we turned down…\" (1963). A sample of requests includes letters from the American Civil Liberties Union, Dartmouth College, Frederick Douglass Junior High School, Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited (HARYOU), Howard University, Mensa, The Poetry Center, Temple Beth Emeth of Flatbush, and the University of Washington.</p> <p> Agents and Agencies. (1.2 lin. ft.) The agents and agencies are filed alphabetically and include short and long term representation. Included in this series are files for Edward Action (1980s), Rodlphe Ankaoua (1970s), Beldock, Levine and Hoffman (1980s), Eugene C. Braun-Munk, Bruna and Zoons (1970s), Conference Speakers International, Inc., (1980s), Cohen and Meyohas (1970s), Enterprise Unlimited (1970s), Robert Lantz (1965-1970s), Ruth Liepman (1970s), Michael Joseph Ltd (1964-1966), Robert Mills Ltd (1967-1971), and the William Morris Agency (1948-1970s). It is not known whether these files constitute a comprehensive record of Baldwin's business associates, but cover the late 1940s until his death in the 1980s. There is also considerable overlap within the subseries, as there is correspondence involving two or more parties related to a specific publication, lecture or project.</p> <p> The bulk of the Publishers Files (1 lin. ft.) concern Dial Press and include contracts, publicity materials, flyers, clippings and original letters and carbons of Baldwin's letters to publisher's representative Donna Schrader for the publications Go Tell It On the Mountain, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, as well as a guest book for a party at Small's Paradise in 1962 to celebrate the publication of Another Country. </p> <p> Other publishers include Doubleday, Knopf, Inc., Lippincott, McGraw-Hill (a photocopy of a signed contract for \"Remember This House,\" also known as \"Death Come Creeping in My Room\"), Open Gate Books, and magazines and journals such as <span class=\"title\">Daedalus</span>, <span class=\"title\">Harper's</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Nation</span>, <span class=\"title\">Preuves</span>, and <span class=\"genreform\">Saturday Review</span>. The files contain correspondence, contracts, clippings, fan mail, and other items. The Lawyers Files (.2 lin. ft.) for the firms Ramseur and Witofsky, and Shanks, Davis and Remer, include letters, fee schedules and other related items.</p> <p> Invitations to Speak. (1.4 lin. ft.) The file contains requests for speaking engagements, and responses from Baldwin's literary agents and secretaries. The bulk of the letters dated 1963, the year he published The Fire Next Time and participated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. There are letters from Brandeis University, Dartmouth, Congress of Racial Equality, Columbia University, New York University, among for hundreds of others, filed in this section. </p> <p> A separate file for Contracts (.2 lin. ft.), maintained by the Estate, includes original but mostly photocopies of contracts for publishers, appearances, an unsigned photocopy of an option for the screen rights to Giovanni's Room, some correspondence, and clippings. Similarly, the Permissions Files (.2 lin. ft.) includes contracts for the use of his works for anthologies, textbooks, and documentaries. Notably, there is a 1982 letter from Oxford University Press thanking Baldwin for granting permission to convert The Fire Next Time into computer-readable form.</p> <p> The very last section, Business Correspondence (1.2 lin. ft.) is organized chronologically (1955-1989) and includes inquiries for projects such as \"Bessie\" by Michael Wilcox, the NAACP, Herbert Kline Productions, and a file of letters concerning dramatic productions for <span class=\"title\">Giovanni's Room</span>, <span class=\"title\">Blues for Mister Charlie</span>, and <span class=\"title\">The Amen Corner</span>.</p>"}