{"value"=>"<p>These folders contain letters, memoranda, clippings, and other documents about the NYT's coverage of elections, campaigns, the national conventions, individual candidates, and its editorial endorsements. The bulk of the material deals with the Presidential elections. Much of the material consists of readers' mail, AHS's replies, and his memoranda to his associates at the NYT, often containing significant explanations of the NYT's and his own political and journalistic philosophies. Readers' mail is filed in the same folder with other papers except for 1952 and 1940, where the quantity of material made this inadvisable. In these years the readers' letters are filed alphabetically by the writers names.</p>"}