{"value"=>"<p>The bulk of Kennan's personal and professional correspondence is arranged chronologically. Following the chronological arrangement are separate folders for letters from Adam Bialoveski, Katherine Breshkovskaia, Egor Lazarev, and Russian exiles.</p> <p>The letters at the earlier end of the date span are primarily family letters, including missives sent home by Kennan over the course of his first Siberian travels. Full of information on the sights, people and hardships he encountered, these letters also often express nostalgia for home. As with much of his correspondence, and indeed much of the tone of Tent Life in Siberia, these letters give one a sense of his wit and warmth, poking fun at misery experienced on the expedition. The letters here are addressed to his father John, sisters Jennie and Harriet, nephew Kossuth (father to George F. Kennan), and the young George F. Kennan.</p> <p>There are also a number of letters written by Siberian exiles. Those addressed directly to Kennan are arranged within his chronological correspondence or by author, and those which represent third-party correspondence forwarded to him are arranged within the last folder of the collection, \"Other exiles' correspondence.\" The majority of these last letters, sent largely for informational purposes, were sent to Kennan from his contacts Moises Shlikerman and Dr. Wollman.</p> <p>Of interest are the May 11, 1886 letter to David McKee, in which Kennan discussed George Frost's mental illness during their travels through Siberia, and the May 22, 1917 letter to David Fairchild in which Kennan addressed Charles R. Crane's belief that the February revolution had been a bloodless one. Kennan predicted the waves of violence that would follow with the Bolshevik Revolution later that year.</p> <p>Letters received from Baron S.A. Korf in July and August of 1918 indicate Kennan's influence on American foreign policy with regard to the new Russian republic. Korf criticized Louis Brandeis and Elihu Root for restraining the United States from providing aid, and asked Kennan to use his influence with Secretary of State Robert Lansing to come to the aid of the Russian people, as opposed to the Bolsheviks, whom he felt would eventually fall away.</p> <p>A selection of letters written by Katherine Breshkovskaia are also present within Kennan's correspondence. The majority are copies that may have come to Kennan through his involvement with the Society of Friends of Russian Freedom. The letters addressed to such individuals as Alice Stone Blackwell, Lillian Wald, Isabel Barrows, Helena Dudley and Ellen Gates Starr discuss her life in exile in great detail.</p> <p>Other correspondence relates to Kennan's work in Cuba, his efforts on behalf of the American Red Cross, and letters from admirers of his writings.</p> <p>Prominent correspondents include: Lyman Abbott, Adam Bialoveski, Nikolai Chaikovski, Charles A. Dana, David Fairchild, W.D. Foulke, W.H. Gilder, Gilbert Grosvenor, George Frost Kennan, Baron S.A. Korf, Sergius Kravchinskii (\"Stepniak\"), Peter Kropotkin, and Egor Lazarev.</p> <p>Letters are in English, French and Russian.</p>"}