Sub-series 1: General

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{"value"=>"593971", "type"=>"local_mss"}

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{"calendar"=>"gregorian", "era"=>"ce", "normal"=>"1924/1967", "type"=>"inclusive", "value"=>"1924–1967"}

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{"value"=>"Sub-series 1: General"}

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{"value"=>"<p>General correspondence includes personal and professional correspondence from Freedley's friends and colleagues. Freedley corresponded with a great number of writers, producers, critics, scholars, actors, and other theatre professionals. The correspondence includes references to drama in America and England, discussion of various theatre awards, social engagements, reference requests, and requests for help in finding work or in critiquing a manuscript.</p> <p>Among writers the collection includes letters from Edward Albee, Robert Anderson, Lewis John Carlino, Marc Connelly, Dina Forbes-Robertson, James Leo Herlihy, Herbert Kubly, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, Gertrude Norman, Phillip Pruneau, Elmer Rice, Dodie Smith, Gerard Willem Van Loon, and Thornton Wilder. Producers and directors who corresponded with Freedley include F. Ray Comstock, Cheryl Crawford, Hallie Flanagan, Margo Jones, Elia Kazan, John Reich, and Henry Schnitzler. The collection also includes letters from the actors Mady Christians, Eva Condon, Tamara Daykarhanova, Grace Elliston, Lillian Gish, Sam Jaffe, Eva Le Gallienne, Alfred Lunt, Mary Martin (one letter describes her experiences in <span class=\"title\">South Pacific</span> in London in 1947), Laurence Olivier, Flora Robson, Tonio Selwart, and Blanche Yurka. Scholars, theatre historians, and critics include Julius Bab, John Beaufort, William G.B. Carson, George Eells, John Gassner, Rosamond Gilder, Phyllis Hartnoll, Burns Mantle, Allardyce Nicoll, Kenneth Tynan, and Willela Waldorf. Other correspondents include Marta Abba, Simon Lissim, Erwin and Maria Piscator, and Lee Simonson.</p> <p> Some of the most frequent correspondents in the general correspondence are Phyllis Hartnoll, a writer and editor at Oxford University Press, Rosamond Gilder, Flora Robson, and Gertrude Norman.</p>"}

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