{"value"=>"<p>Judith Mara Gutman's correspondence includes incoming and outgoing letters, memos, and notes documenting the author's personal life and professional activity. The bulk of the correspondence falls between 1966, with the publication of her first book, The Colonial Venture, and 1985, shortly after the publication of Through Indian Eyes. The files are arranged in separate alphabetical and chronological sections, reflecting Gutman's own organization of the collection. The alphabetical correspondence includes mostly routine correspondence to and from artists, academics, publishers and research institutions associated with Gutman's work and travel. Chronological correspondence includes material of a more personal nature, including notes from friends and family, and continues to 1999.</p> <p>Much of the alphabetical correspondence relates to Gutman's appearances at academic conferences. She attended the European Association of American Studies in Rome 1984, an American Studies seminar at Helsinki University, 1977 and presented papers including \"The Name of the Game is Perception\" at the 1976 Organization of American Historians, and \"Black Style and the Black Self-Image\" at 1977 meeting of the American Studies Association. Other symposiums documented in the correspondence include Photojournalism Forum at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, the National Humanities Institute at University of Chicago, 1977.</p> <p>The earliest material in the chronological correspondence includes letters to and from the Moskowitz family (1945-1949). Subjects of correspondence from 1961 include Gutman's efforts to publish her writings, and letters from the 1970s document her research and travel in England, Paris and around India. The correspondence from the 1990s includes many informal notes, card and invitations.</p> <p>Notable correspondents in the collection include Irving Kristol, of Basic Books; philanthropist Tom Kessinger; photographers, Ansel Adams, Bob Heineken, Ashvin Mehta, Kenneth Poli, and Gary Winograd; historians Merle Curti, Edwin Rozenc, Richard Slotkin, and Kathryn Kish Sklar; and critics Ward Morehouse, Greil Marcus, Beaumont Newhall, and Alden Whitman. Additional correspondence, including letters from John Kenneth Galbraith and Clifford Geertz regarding Gutman's book and photography exhibition, Through Indian Eyes, may be found under that title in Series II. Writings.</p>"}