{"value"=>"<p>This series contains published and unpublished writings by Richard Plant including short stories, critical essays, newspaper and magazine articles, histories, translations, memoirs, and novels, as well as several folders of sketches, outlines and fragments. Writings are in English and German, and are arranged alphabetically by the title of the work, when known. Many folders contain correspondence, news clippings and printed material gathered by Plant in the course of his research for the project concerned. There are also reviews, newspaper clippings and promotional materials regarding several of Plant's most important works, including <span class=\"title\">Lizzie Borden</span> and <span class=\"title\">The Pink Triangle</span>. The earliest items date from Plant's student years in Germany and Switzerland. They include papers written for university classes, dramatic sketches, short stories and film and book reviews. After his emigration to the United States in 1938, Plant authored book, film and theatre reviews that appeared in <span class=\"title\">The Saturday Review</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Nation</span> and numerous German-language publications. This series includes dozens of examples of these critical essays, many of which focus on German literature of the 1940s-1960s. In addition, there are several reviews that appeared during the 1970s-1980s in <span class=\"title\">The Advocate</span> and <span class=\"title\">Christopher Street</span> regarding new titles in the field of gay history. Examples of Richard Plant's work as a novelist include a photocopy of the printed edition of <span class=\"title\">The Dragon in the Forest</span> (1948) together with dozens of reviews of the book, and a typescript of the unpublished <span class=\"title\">Mimosa</span>. There is important material relating to Richard Plant's collaboration, with composer Jack Beeson and writer Elmslie Kenward, on the composition of the opera <span class=\"title\">Lizzie Borden</span> (1965), including drafts, outlines, research notes, promotional material, reviews, librettos and vocal scores. These items are complemented by correspondence regarding the opera contained in Box 1 Folder 22. During the 1970s-80s Plant devoted himself to a study of the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany. This series contains numerous essays, newspaper articles and notes on the subject, as well as typescripts, galley proofs and reviews of Plant's monograph <span class=\"title\">The Pink Triangle</span> (1986).</p>"}