{"value"=>"<p>The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent. The correspondence is both personal and professional and documents Mayo's work as an actress and dramatist, her real estate holdings, her various legal cases, and financial issues. A recurring theme in the correspondence is the constant work Mayo undertook to protect the copyright of her plays, film scripts, and scenarios, and to ensure that she received proper payment from producers and publishing companies.</p> <p>There is a significant amount of correspondence with Upton Sinclair and his second wife, Mary Craig Kimbrough, and with the playwright Aubrey Kennedy. Mayo's correspondence with the Sinclairs documents their friendship, and includes Mayo's comments on Sinclairs' Sylvia novels. Mayo's correspondence with Kennedy spans three decades and regards their collaborative writing projects and Kennedy's late life-in-life decline due to alcoholism. Other notable correspondents include Blanche Bates, Alexandra Carlisle, Irwin Cobb, Constance Collier, Jane Cowl, Bob Davis, Max Dearly, Cecil B. DeMille, Charles Dillingham, Father Divine ( M. J. Divine), Max Eastman, Maxine Elliott, Eva Moore Esmond, William Faversham, Minnie Maddern Fiske, James Forbes, Daniel Frohman, Avery Hopwood, Salisbury Field, Donald Calthrop, Edith Ellis, Julie Herne, Clara Lippman Man, and Sewell Collins.</p> <p>Correspondence with the law firm O'Brien, Malevinsky, and Driscoll represent a suit against Mayo by Aubrey Kennedy's wife Agnes Kennedy for alienation of affection and contracts for Baby Mine, Bridal Night, Seeing Things, Twin Beds, and the Ziegfeld production of Polly of the Circus.</p>"}