{"value"=>"<p>Wolfe's correspondence documents his professional and social relationships throughout his career. The bulk of the correspondence dates from 1965 to 2000, with large volumes of letters received following the publication of Wolfe's best-known books, including <span class=\"title\">Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers</span> (1970), <span class=\"title\">The Right Stuff</span> (1979), <span class=\"title\">From Bauhaus to Our House</span> (1981), and the serialization (1984-1985) and publication (1987) of <span class=\"title\">The Bonfire of the Vanities</span>. The series consists primarily of incoming correspondence, with most of Wolfe's outgoing letters dated before 1960 and after 1990.</p> <p>Correspondence contains letters with other writers, editors, publishers, and cultural figures, including Gordon Lish, Clay Felker, Jann Wenner, John Anstey, Hunter S. Thompson, Emmett Tyrell, William F. Buckley, Jr., Christopher Buckley, Liz Smith, and George Plimpton. Letters from the 1960s to the 1980s with editors at <span class=\"title\">Esquire</span>, <span class=\"title\">Rolling Stone</span>, <span class=\"title\">Harper's</span>, and the <span class=\"title\">Weekend Telegraph</span> chart the development of Wolfe's career as he transitioned from beat reporter to cultural commentator. There is also correspondence with nonfiction writers such as Gay Talese, Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne, Norman Mailer, and Susan Sontag. Letters from fellow writers contain discussion of Wolfe's writings, new publications by other writers, contemporary news items, and social updates. The business aspects of Wolfe's career are shown in letters with agents Lynn Nesbit and Pat Kavanagh, attorney Alvin Deutsch, and editors and publishers at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Little, Brown, including Henry Robbins, Roger Straus, Bob Giroux, Pat Strachan, and Jonathan Galassi. Manuscript files in Series IV: Writings also contain correspondence regarding the editing, publication, and promotion of Wolfe's work.</p> <p>Wolfe's sources and collaborators represented in the correspondence include E.W. Johnson, co-editor of <span class=\"title\">The New Journalism</span>; activist Kailey Wong and writers Larry Dietz and Bill van Petten, all of whom worked with Wolfe on his 1960s California articles; architect Edgar Tafel and architecture critic Henry Hope Reed; and professor Marshall Fishwick. Many individuals who were the subjects of Wolfe's books and essays—including Marshall McLuhan, George Barris, Phil Spector, Neale Jones, Jackie Haddad, Hugh Hefner, the Mercury and Apollo astronauts, Robert Noyce, and John Silber—became correspondents who formed cordial relationships with Wolfe. Letters from readers range from enthusiastic fan mail to factual corrections and criticism, showing the public's varied responses to Wolfe's work and his engagement with readers. In addition to his professional writing career, Wolfe's correspondence also documents his involvement in New York City cultural institutions and his presidency of the East Sixties Property Owners Association.</p> <p>The index of prominent and frequent correspondents includes the name of the correspondent, the dates of the letter/s (year only), number of items, and container locations. Correspondence with administrative personnel and junior editors at magazines, newspapers, book publishers, and literary agencies is listed under the name of the organization. Senior editors, publishers, and agents who were in frequent contact with Wolfe are listed under their own names. The index is not exhaustive and may not contain referents to every letter by an individual, or list every prominent correspondent found in the collection.</p> <p>The correspondence is arranged chronologically, with the exception of two folders of letters from Gordon Lish, 1974-1982, which follow other correspondence from the year 1974.</p>"}