{"value"=>"<p>Emily Ford's general correspondence consists of her drafts of letters sent and received responses from friends. Correspondents include M.J. Browne, Marie Benchely, Fanny Foster Clark, Katharine Gilman and other members of the Gilman family, Marie Taylor, Esther B. Carpenter, and Gertrude May. The papers include social requests and personal correspondence about trips taken, literature read, and acquaintances visited. There are eight letters from Emily Dickinson (ca.1853). Several letters from Olivia Coleman are included in the undated section of the collection. These letters appear to predate Ford's marriage and evidence an intimate relationship between the women. The papers also include professional correspondence with publishers and editors about her work, including a letter to George Eliot.</p>"}