{"value"=>"<p>The files in this series, contain materials relating to his life, work, and memory of Herbert George Gutman. The book contract files include correspondence and agreements between publishers and the estate of H. G. Gutman that document the recurring interest in reprinting his work. The correspondence includes evaluations of his papers, and messages from the American Social History Project at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York of which Gutman was a founder and leading member. There are also files concerning the Herbert G. Gutman Memorial Lecture at which historians such as Eric J. Hobsbawm, Edward P. Thompson, Eric Foner, and Joan W. Scott delivered lectures. The files include ephemera and correspondence, but not the lectures themselves.</p>"}