{"value"=>"<p>This series, dating from the 1970s to the 2010s, constitutes material from Jones' personal life. The bulk of the files consist of personal photographs and correspondence, as well as programs from theater, music, and poetry events Jones attend from the 1970s to the 2000s.</p> <p>The files detail Jones' observations of the world through sketches, diary entries, and early poems in notebooks, journals, and correspondence. The series hold photographs and guestbooks that give an account of Jones' friends and aquantainces attending her annual tea party and birthday celebrations. Jones retained calendars, telephone messages, and events ephemera that delineate her daily schedule from 1977 to 2013. The events ephemera recount Jones' presence at various music concerts, plays, musicals, and museums around the world. Some commercial music recordings gifted from friends, or compiled by Jones, appear in the series.</p> <p>Of note are photographs from Jones' early years in New York City, <span class=\"title\">Ordinary Woman</span> celebration, residencies, birthday parties, and travels; journals and notebooks containing observations of society, politics, and poems; and correspondence with Jodi Braxton, William Allen, Thulani Davis, Jane Dickson, Akua Lezli Hope, Maureen Owen, Nathalie Schmidt, and family members.</p>"}