{"value"=>"<p>This series contains letters, invitations, and birthday and holiday greetings relating to Lucille Lortel's professional activities and personal affairs. Correspondence on specific productions, organizations, the White Barn Theatre, the Lucille Lortel Theatre/Theatre de Lys and the Lucille Lortel Awards are located in those series. Family correspondence can be found in the Personal Papers series.</p> <p>For many of the earliest letters written to Miss Lortel during the 1920s, the correspondents are identified by first name only. The correspondence from the 1960s includes numerous professional contacts in England, such as Kitty Black, Peter Cotes, Mary Grew, Maureen Halligan of The Dublin Players, Sam Wanamaker, Emanuel Wax, and Leonard White. Frequent correspondents over several decades include Sylvia Acker, Michael Allinson, Lois Berman, Tina Tippit Brown, Edith and Ervin Drake, Minerva Farrell, Gil and Lonnie Hodges, Maryanna McConnell, Elliot Martin, Liliane Montevecchi, Vickie (Mrs. Jack) Oakie, Abby and John Seymour, Anna Sosenko, Isabelle Stevenson, Bob Taylor, Robert Tompkins, Danielle Volle, and Maggie Williams.</p> <p>Holiday and birthday cards have been sampled, due to the large number of them she received.</p>"}