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{"value"=>"<p>Correspondence comprises letters to Simon from friends, colleagues, editors, and readers, and a small number of letters by Simon. Incoming letters contain reactions to specific reviews, discussions of films and plays and their critical reception, and responses to Simon's ideas about language and culture. Simon's outgoing letters are mostly responses to criticism of his work. Many of these can be found in a file labeled \"Letters by John Simon,\" but copies of some of his outgoing letters can also be found scattered throughout the correspondence files. His letters to his parents can be found in his personal and family papers. Letters from readers date from the 1960s to the 2000s, and include printouts of emails and letters to the editor that were forwarded or copied to Simon. These letters often touch on contemporary social issues and cultural trends. Files labeled \"Controversy\" and \"Contretemps\" contain letters and clippings regarding various public debates and disagreements involving Simon, mostly dating to the 1970s; they also include a file concerning Simon's 1991 review of Norman Mailer's book, <span class=\"title\">Harlot's Ghost</span>. Unsorted correspondence files contain personal and professional letters from a range of Simon's friends, colleagues, and readers.</p> <p>Simon's frequent correspondents include actor Keith Baxter; author James Dickey; composer Ned Rorem; and critics Dwight Macdonald, Frank Noack, Digby Ricci, and Jörg von Uthmann. There are a number of letters, mostly in German, from Leni Riefenstahl; these were written in the 1990s and discuss Riefenstahl's health, her travels, her underwater film project, and a potential film adaptation of her memoirs. The correspondence includes enclosures sent to Simon by his correspondents, such as clippings sent to him by fellow critics, sheet music sent by Rorem, and photographs sent by Riefenstahl. Other friends or acquaintances with brief correspondence are Betty Buckley, Carol Burnett, Kaye Ballard, Ricardo Montalban, Yoko Ono, and Christopher Plummer.</p>"}