{"value"=>"<p> PERSONAL PAPERS, 1942-1984 (1.2 lin. ft.)</p> <p>Divided into five subseries and several ungrouped files. The Biographicalsubseries includes some ephemera (newspapers clippings, loose scrapbook pages and theater programs) from Mayfield's early career in the theater. General articles and obituaries about the author are also located here. The Autobiographicalsubseries consists of episodic notes the author was compiling toward an autobiography. Included are recollections of his association with Paul Robeson, his activities in Puerto Rico and Ghana, and a brief handwritten journal of a return trip to his native Greer, South Carolina, in the early 1980s. The file Diaries and Notes includes a journal entry on his return trip to the United States after his six-year voluntary exile in Ghana and Europe, various reflections on the possibility of a revolution in the United States and on \"Becoming a Revolutionary,\" and pages from a later notebook on Langston Hughes. The Familysubseries consists for the most part of personal and professional correspondence and other documents pertaining to Joan Cambridge and her activities in Guyana during Mayfield's stay in that country.</p> <p>The extensive Financialsubseries includes publishers' contracts, royalty statements and bankruptcy files. The pre-1965 files provide the only documentation for several unknown aspects of the author's life, including a 1959 novel, \"Dowell,\" his association with the television series Johnny Staccato under the pseudonym of Gerald Orsini, a collection of short stories, \"Duncan Street,\" slated for publication in 1959, and translation rights to his early work. Consultancy and Projectsrelate mostly to Chaka Productions and the stage production of Black Hands, and to Time Capsule, Inc., an umbrella organization that published a journal of prison literature, Time Capsule, and several other magazines.</p>"}