{"value"=>"<p>This series contains letters to Ward Morehouse from friends and professional contacts. Some of the correspondents are <span class=\"persname\">Brooks Atkinson</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Maude Adams</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Irving Berlin</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Constance Collier</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Joan Crawford</span>, <span class=\"persname\">William Fields</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Elsie Ferguson</span>, <span class=\"persname\">William Gillette</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Lillian Gish</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Norman Hackett</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Oscar Hammerstein</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Moss Hart</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Helen Hayes</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Hal Holbrook</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Elia Kazan</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Alfred Lunt</span> and <span class=\"persname\">Lynn Fontanne</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Grant Mitchell</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Frank Morgan</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Channing Pollock</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Marjorie Rambeau</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Samson Raphaelson</span> and <span class=\"persname\">Basil Rathbone</span>. Of special note is a letter from <span class=\"persname\">M. Byer Allan</span> (<span class=\"persname\">Rita Jolivet</span>) describing her experience as a passenger during the sinking of the Lusitania.</p>"}