Series I: Correspondence

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1983
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{"value"=>"<p>This series contains correspondence to and from Katharine Cornell, Gertrude Macy, Nancy Hamilton and Guthrie McClintic, though the bulk of this correspondence is Cornell’s. Types of correspondence include business correspondence fan mail, requests for autographs and photographs, and correspondence pertaining to the many theatrical, charitable, political and humanitarian organizations of which Cornell was a member. Most of this series consists of personal correspondence between Cornell and McClintic and their friends and colleagues, including many luminaries of twentieth century theater, such as, Brian Aherne, Tallulah Bankhead, Ethel Barrymore, Phillip Barry, S. J. Behrman, Hugh “Binkie” Beaumont, Constance Collier, Gladys Cooper, Noel Coward, Edith Evans, Jose Ferrer, Lynn Fontanne, John Gielgud, Ruth Gordon, Helen Hayes, Vivien Leigh, Eva LeGallienne, Alfred Lunt, Mary Martin, Raymond Massey, Gregory Peck, Ralph Richardson, Marian Seldes, Laurette Taylor, Sybil Thorndike, Clifton Webb and Tennessee Williams.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Arrangement: Alphabetical</p>"}
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  1. Business, [20/1]
  2. Communists in the theater, [2/1]
  3. "Crank Letters"
  4. Doctors' reports,
  5. Fan mail, [2/1]
  6. Personal, [5/1]
  7. Requests, [6/1]
  8. Submissions - Plays,
  9. Unsolicited
  10. Various misc. correspondence,