{"value"=>"<p>This series comprises correspondence from family, friends, professional associates, students, and fans. General correspondence to both Hagen and Berghof is filed in this series. Family correspondence includes love letters from Herbert Berghof dating from the late 1940s and early 1950s. There is also correspondence from José Ferrer dating mostly from the years of their relationship, but also a few in later years. A large amount of the family correspondence is from Hagen's parents and much of it is in German. There is also a small amount of correspondence from Hagen's stepmother, Beatrice, her brother, Holger, (and his two wives), her daughter, and granddaughter. Hagen's correspondence to her family is filed after family correspondence. Her letters to her father are especially informative regarding her personal and professional life.</p> <p>Of special interest are the numerous condolence letters Hagen received after Berghof's death in 1990, including those from Edward Albee, Philip Bosco, Patricia and Matthew Broderick, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Robert Culp, Horton Foote, George Grizzard, Julie Harris, June Havoc, Eileen Heckart, David Hedison, Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach, Paula Laurence and Charles Bowden, Donna McKechnie, Tony Musante, Mike Nichols, Austin Pendleton, José Quintero, Prunella Scales, Alexander Schneider, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, Berthold and Liesl Viertel, Emma Walton, Fritz Weaver, and Michael Zaslow.</p> <p>General correspondence includes letters from friends, professional associates, students, and fan mail. Included is correspondence from longtime friends and associates (some of whom were former students) such as Edward Albee, Harold Clurman, Jane Eakin, Richard Easton, Jesse Feiler, Lucy Kroll, Paula Laurence, George and Mary Mathews, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Hedda Sterne (Steinberg). There are also cards and letters from notables such as Leonard Bernstein, Anthony Franciosa, Christopher Fry, David Hyde Pierce, Harvey Korman, Marlo Thomas, and Thornton Wilder.</p> <p>Fan mail includes notes from Katharine Hepburn and Jane Wyatt, as well as from unknown admirers.</p>"}