{"value"=>"<p>Anne Carroll Moore's correspondence files contain incoming letters, postcards and telegrams which document her professional life and personal activities. The files are arranged alphabetically by the name of the correspondent, and in a few cases by organization name. There are a small number of outgoing letters to John Dewey, Alice O'Connor, and Marie Shedlock. The bulk of the correspondence dates from 1910-1950. This series includes one hundred and eighty-seven letters from the storyteller Marie Shedlock. Moore referred to Shedlock as the \"Fairy Godmother of Storytelling.\" The letters are personal in tone, but also relate the progress of Shedlock's career. These folders also contain a few programs and syllabus' from Shedlock's appearances. Several correspondents discuss Shedlock in their letters to Moore; these include Mary Dobie, Anne Eaton, Mariana Greens, Esther Hoffman, Ruth Kellog Reinhold, and Anna Slocum.</p> <p>In an extensive correspondence with Beatrix Potter the author discusses her life in the Lake District of Northern England, her concerns about both World Wars and the origins of the character, Peter Rabbit (1925). Moore received numerous letters from Walter de la Mare who wrote about his family and surroundings in rural England, as well as his career. Carl Sandburg's letters discuss the Nicholas books, and include comments on his own <span class=\"title\">Rootabaga Stories</span>. The file also contains a poem Sandburg wrote in honor of Anne Carroll Moore.</p> <p>Moore conducted a lengthy correspondence with author Leonard Leslie Brooke and his wife Sylvia. These letters are personal in tone and deal with their family life, literature and current affairs.</p> <p>Author E. B. White corresponded with Moore during the time he was writing <span class=\"title\">Stuart Little</span>. In his letters he discusses the challenge he faced in writing his first book for children. Letters from his wife Katherine discuss White's work, and her own efforts in establishing a rural library North Brooklin, Maine.</p> <p>In a letter dated 1923, a 13 year-old Paul Bowles discusses his writing and piano lessons.</p> <p>Moore exchanged letters with many other artists and illustrators of children's books. This series includes letters received from Margery Bianco, Will Cuppy, James Daugherty, Rene Harnoncourt, Robert McCloskey, Maxfield Parrish, Arthur Rackham, Hugh Troy, and Jay Van Everen, and author-illustrators Ludwig Bemelmans, Wag Gag, Ted Geisel, and Lois Lenski. They discuss Moore's reviews and articles for the <span class=\"title\">Horn Book</span> and <span class=\"title\">The New York Herald Tribune</span>. In some letters correspondents discuss the work of children's authors and illustrators, as well as their own books. There are drawings contained within the texts of the letters from illustrators James Daugherty, Hugh Troy, and Rene Harnoncourt. Reflections on the World Wars appear in many of the letters, particularly those from Leslie and Sylvia Brooke, Dorothy Canfield, Robert McCloskey and Beatrix Potter.</p> <p>Many of her correspondents recognize and offer congratulations for the publication of her Nicholas books. A significant number of letters offer congratulations on her 25th anniversary with The New York Public Library.</p> <p>There are also letters from former classmates, students and aspiring librarians from around the country, Britian, China, France and Italy. A group of letters from Anne Morgan deal with her work for the American Committee for Devastated France, as do several other letters from France.</p>"}