{"value"=>"<p>The manuscript files contain lists of authors, publishers, agents, and magazines; card files on manuscripts submitted to publishers and periodicals; and registers of manuscripts received by Russell and Volkening. The lists contain contact information for active and inactive authors represented by Russell and Volkening and publishers, periodicals, and foreign agents with whom they dealt. It is not clear why there are two separate active author files. They may have been kept by different agents over the years.</p> <p>The manuscript cards are arranged in bulk date groups and are alphabetical by author's last name within these groups. Each card contains the name of the author, the manuscript title, where the manuscript was sent before it was sold, the date it was sent to each publisher or periodical, and the date it was returned to Russell and Volkening or was sold.</p> <p>The manuscript registers are arranged chronologically and contain the manuscript number assigned to each manuscript as it was received by Russell and Volkening, the name of the author, the title of the manuscript, the date it was received, and the date it was returned to Russell and Volkening or the word \"Sold\" if it was not returned.</p>"}