{"value"=>"<p>The Correspondence Series is divided into Family and General subseries and is arranged chronologically into incoming and outgoing files. The Family Correspondence provides important insights into his private life and feelings and relationship to his family. Having been conferred an honorary degree at Atlanta University in 1918, he confided to his wife his satisfaction at the success of his acceptance speech, and his impressions of Atlanta as a very northern city but with a “difference of attitude toward the race.” During his tenure at Atlanta University, he communicated to his family in New York many poetic and literary impressions of southern landscape and campus life. The letters also bear frequent references to monetary prospects and budgetary difficulties.</p> <p>The bulk of Braithwaite's outgoing letters in the General Correspondence date from his retirement, and relate to issues of author's rights, translation of his verses to other languages, speaking engagements, comparative literature, publications and literary criticism. The earliest letter in this file is addressed to an unnamed author soliciting her patronage for the publication of his first collection of verses. Later, Braithwaite wrote frequently to younger authors seeking his advice and opinion of their works. The files of incoming letters in this subseries are more voluminous and span the six decades of the collection. The Alain Locke Memorial folder, for instance, consists of printed matter, eulogies and letters, and includes a March 28, 1912 letter from Booker T. Washington to Locke. Other correspondents include Arna Bontemps, W.E.B. Du Bois, Rufus Clement, Carl Murphy, William Rose Benet, Burton Kline, Robert Willis, Joseph Auslander, George Schuyler, Arthur Spingarn, Helen Pollock, and several publishing concerns.</p>"}