Check books, correspondence, reports, figures, computations, blueprints, contracts, official documents, and some photographs. This series reflects the business enterprises of Ben Hecht and his family. There are day-to-day accounting files, such as checkbook stubs, account books, payroll information for the Hecht staff, hospital bills, and tax computations for the year. In addition, there are Insurance policies and correspondence, Mortgage and lease documents, Inventories and accounts of the houses (in Nyack, New York and Oceanside, California) and the apartment (New York City), Wills and settlements for Ben, Rose, and Jenny Hecht, and legalities concerning Ben Hecht’s Works. The last section of this series, Works, includes signed contracts, copyright information and permission letters for reprints, translations, adaptations and performances. There is a substantial amount of correspondence to and from book publishers (Doubleday & Co., Simon & Schuster), lawyers, agents (Lucy Kroll, Elisabeth Marton), and accountants. The works files are divided into pre-1964 and post-1964 sections, to reflect the legal battles during Ben’s life and after Ben had died. See also Series 2 and 3, Incoming and Outgoing Correspondence, under the names of individuals and organizations, for more correspondence from those parties.