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{"value"=>"<p>The correspondence series spans 1939 to 2015 and contains a mix of personal and professional correspondence.</p> <p>Files are arranged by date and move chronologically through Schanberg's life. Correspondence files may contain other materials such as drafts, notes, clippings, and photographs.</p> <p>The India and Asia correspondence covers Schanberg's time as a foreign correspondent. Held here are letters and cables from the New Delhi office, including correspondence with colleagues; correspondence regarding visas for his family; banking correspondence; and congratulations received on the birth of his daughters, Jessica and Rebecca. Also present are congratulations for awards received, including his George Polk award for his coverage of Bangladesh. Also held with Asia correspondence are exchanges with Schanberg's Vietnam stringer, Vo-Tuan-Chan, and correspondence sent and received while in Singapore, including letters to and from David Halberstam. Some correspondence in this group may be addressed to Schanberg's first wife, Janice.</p> <p>The Cambodia correspondence contains various letters, cables, and postcards sent and received while working in Cambodia. This includes: correspondence about a potential transfer to Poland; various administrative discussions with <span class=\"title\">Times</span> editors and managers; 1973 correspondence with Ambassador Emory Swank; 1973 correspondence with <span class=\"title\">The New Republic</span>; and correspondence regarding his 1975 Pulitzer Prize. Also present are cables and correspondence from the fall of Phnom Penh, including congratulations upon his return to safety, return to the United States, and promotion to Metropolitan editor. Examples of congratulatory correspondence include letters from Al Rockoff, Senator Ted Kennedy, Mayor Abraham Beame, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, and a letter from Schanberg's cousin, Abbie Hoffman, who sent the letter while on the run from the FBI.</p> <p>Also held with Cambodia correspondence are publisher queries; correspondence with the photographer, Sarah Webb Barrell; an unsent letter to the Foreign Desk after he received his Pulitzer; correspondence with Dith Pran's family after they settled in San Francisco, and other correspondence related to Pran and Cambodian refugees.</p> <p>Following the Cambodia correspondence are files covering Schanberg's return to the United States and promotion to Metropolitan Editor. Topics covered include reaction to \"Life and Death of Dith Pran\"; reaction to the creation of his \"New York\" column; and reaction correspondence to a 1977 column regarding being a Boston Red Sox fan living in New York. Included here are letters from Senator Jacob Javits, Tom Wicker, Elie Wiesel, Robert Silvers, Mayor Ed Koch, Gay Talese, and more colleagues, friends, public officials and dignitaries offering congratulations for Schanberg's achievements, writing, and promotions. Also contained here are letters from his daughters and correspondence and photographs from Dith Pran's wife and family.</p> <p>Correspondence from literary agents and publishers contain: exchanges with Random House regarding a contract for an unpublished book on Cambodia and Schanberg's returning of the advance payment; correspondence regarding a book published with a character similar to Schanberg; correspondence with various literary agents; and book ideas proposed by publishers regarding Schanberg's coverage of New York real estate development and his <span class=\"title\">Times</span> column being terminated.</p> <p>Correspondence regarding the cancellation of Schanberg's <span class=\"title\">Times</span> column and it's aftermath contain material sent and received. This includes reader reactions; job offers; speaking engagement offers; book offers; teaching offers; condolences for the death of his father; a letter from Governor Mario Cuomo congratulating Schanberg after a <span class=\"title\">C-Span</span> appearance; an exchange with <span class=\"title\">The Killing Fields</span> producer, David Puttnam; and a card from Abbie Hoffman.</p> <p>Personal correspondence covering years spent at <span class=\"title\">New York Newsday</span> contain an invitation to the 1993 inauguration of President Bill Clinton; publisher requests to write blurbs for various books; and correspondence with representation for New York Mets pitcher, Dwight Gooden, about a possible story. Also held here are letters of recommendation written by Schanberg.</p> <p>The carreer transition correspondence covers the closing of <span class=\"title\">APBNews.com</span> and his departure from <span class=\"title\">The Village Voice</span>. This includes exchanges with: Chea Sokhan, a Cambodian friend, including photographs and details of Schanberg's daughter, Rebecca, visiting Cambodia in 2002; Hamilton Fish and other staff from <span class=\"title\">The Nation</span>, regarding an abandoned series on police brutality; Rick Kaplan, then president of <span class=\"title\">CNN</span>; David Remnick, editor of <span class=\"title\">The New Yorker</span>; Joe Calderone, regarding a proposal for a news website, <span class=\"title\">TheCity.com</span>; Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., publisher of <span class=\"title\">The New York Times</span>; Katrina vanden Heuvel of <span class=\"title\">The Nation</span>; and Nathalie Duong Sung, daughter of a Belgian woman quoted by Schanberg in an article from the Fall of Phnom Penh. Also held here are letters from students after an appearance at The East Harlem School; correspondence with producers from <span class=\"title\">Newshour</span> and <span class=\"title\">On the Media</span>; correspondence regarding his teaching fellowship at SUNY New Paltz; a 2009 <span class=\"title\">New York Times</span> Letter to the Editor, responding to \"Abdullah II: The 5-State Solution\" by Thomas Friedman; and correspondence about the death of Arthur 'Punch' Sulzberger and the obituary written by Clyde Haberman that had inaccuracies about Schanberg. Some correspondence may be addressed to Schanberg's second wife, Jane.</p>"}