{"value"=>"<p> Includes <span class=\"emph\">Correspondence</span> between Ms Washington and Lawrence Brown from 1932 to 1939; three letters written to Mr. Brown by his parents in 1939; a general correspondence file containing telegrams, letters and greetings from Duke Ellington, her sister Isabel, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Ethel Waters, Bette Davis and Joe Louis, among others; one letter from the National Committee of Independant Voters for Roosevelt and Wallace (5 Nov. 1940) praising her for her active role in the presidential campaign of that year, and another from Senator Robert Wagner of New York in reference to her previously stated interest in the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill (27 Nov. 1937). Letters and telegrams of congratulation on the opening of the plays and movies she appeared in have been arranged chronologically and by title of play.</p>"}