{"value"=>"<p>This series contains correspondence, photographs, books, scrapbooks, and other materials that the Archives of the New York Times deemed to be of a personal nature or of minor subject interest. The files are arranged alphabetically by personal name and contain correspondence with and about that person. When applicable, cross-references are provided to relevant subject files. While this series contains mostly personal correspondence, many letters do mention Ochs's business interests. Letters to members of his family often concern the New York Times. Effie Wise Ochs's file contains the letters her husband wrote to her during his negotiations for the New York Times. His nearly daily letters to her provide descriptions of life in New York City at the end of the 19th century and details of his struggle to turn the Times into a viable paper. These letters, in which he discussed every aspect of his work, were passed around to the rest of the Ochs family in Tennessee.</p> <p>Nearly every member of the family had a position at Ochs's newspapers. His father, brothers, brother-in-law, nephew, and cousin all worked for him. This series contains files on all these men: Julius Ochs, Milton B. Ochs, George W. Ochs-Oakes, Harry C. Adler, Julius Ochs Adler, and Ben C. Franck. His son-in-law, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, joined the New York Times after his marriage to Ochs's daughter, Iphigene, and became publisher after Ochs's death. Iphigene was involved in her father's business throughout her life. As a child, she laid the cornerstone for the Times Square building and, as a board member, exerted a huge influence at the paper after her father's death. While not every member of the Ochs family was an employee of Ochs, he felt responsible for everyone's security and gave money, usually in the guise of loans, to many of them.</p> <p>Other material in this series includes Ochs's correspondence with prominent members of society, including explorers, presidents, foreign leaders, authors, and inventors. He developed a personal relationship with many of the people he met through the New York Times, including Spencer Trask, Jacob H. Schiff, George Eastman, Thomas Edison, Guglielmo Marconi, Admiral Robert E. Byrd, Charles Lindbergh, and many others. Ochs was often invited to the White House as well as the personal homes of U.S. presidents and often wrote about his interviews with them. For example, this series includes a narrative of his meeting with Calvin Coolidge in 1926, in which the two men discussed the war debts of the Allies and the World Court.</p> <p>The People series includes notable material on the Leo Frank case. Frank was a Jewish man accused of the rape and murder of a young girl in Georgia in 1913. His trial was highly sensational and was covered by many newspapers, including the New York Times, which supported Frank. The Leo Frank file includes correspondence between Frank and Ochs as well as scrapbooks with correspondence, clippings, photographs, legal documents, and pamphlets about the case.</p>"}