{"value"=>"<p>The correspondence contains letters to and from gay writers, editors and publishers, physicians, psychologists, personal friends and family. The chiefly incoming letters are filed alphabetically for those correspondents represented by more than one letter, or to whose letter was attached additional materials. The correspondence is not extensive and there are rarely more than a few letters from any single correspondent. The exceptions are the letters from Nathan Fain, his close friend and co-founder of the GMHC, who wrote to Mass frequently from Texas in 1982 about his research and investigative writing on the AIDS crisis. Smaller number of personal letters from 1983-87 including three snapshots of Fain performing in a drag show. Other correspondents include Dennis Altman, Robert Chesley, Martin Duberman, John Cavendish (Mass's first lover), and single letters from Randy Shilts, Virginia Apuzzo, Ed Koch, Quentin Crisp, Terrence McNally, and Ned Rorem. A complete list can be found in the container list. Along with the correspondence are filed typescripts, clippings, reprints, and other printed material by and about the correspondent. Additionally, some folders contain drafts of short articles and essays sent by the correspondent for Mass's review.</p> <p>The family correspondence contains several letters between Mass and his parents while an undergraduate at University of California at Berkeley. The remaining correspondence are letters and greeting cards from his mother, step-father, sister, and nephew through the 1980s-2008.</p>"}