{"value"=>"<p>This series contains the records of the four Directors of the Institute: Charles Sprague Smith (1897-1910), Frederic C. Howe (1910-1916), Edward F. Sanderson (1916-1922), and Everett Dean Martin (1922-1934). It consists mainly of correspondence files for each Director alphabetically arranged. Charles Sprague Smith's files contain incoming letters from many well known individuals, including Lyman Abbott, Felix Adler, Robert Fulton Cutting, William E. Dodge, Richard Watson Gilder, Samuel Gompers, Abram Stevens Hewitt, Henry Demarest Lloyd, and Lillian Wald. Sprague's material also includes organizations' endorsements of the People's Institute protest of the subway franchise of 1899. Frederic C. Howe is the second most represented Director in the series. His correspondence also contains noted correspondents, including Jane Addams, Louis Brandeis, and Hamlin Garland.</p> <p>Other material in this series includes the 1917 correspondence of Louis R. deCravioti, the Assistant Director of the Institute; acceptances and regrets to invitations to Everett Dean Martin's speech \"The Psychology of the Mind,\" given on April 23, 1925 in Adolph Lewisohn's ballroom. General files include crank letters, Institute stationery, circular letters, drafts of the constitution and amendments, election proxies, lists of officers and members, and miscellaneous reports.</p>"}