{"value"=>"<p>Letters relating to <span class=\"title\">The Century Magazine</span>'s series on American History during the Reconstruction period are limited to one volume, chronologically ordered with an alphabetical index. The volume consists mainly of calls for content (predominantly to American newspaper editors) and rejection letters, but also includes a significant quantity of administrative follow-up on and editorial development of articles slated for publication in the series on a variety of topics, such as the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, the death of President William McKinley, the Alaskan Purchase, the Monroe Doctrine, the Spanish-American War, and the financial crisis of 1873.</p> <p>Notable in this volume are letters soliciting material from William Jennings Bryan, Whitelaw Reid, Horace White, and Henry Watterson.</p>"}