{"value"=>"<p>Series IV dates from the 1840s to 2021, and holds personal items from Didion and Dunne's early lives, immediate and extended families, their married life, and their daughter, Quintanna Roo Dunne. The series includes calendars, notebooks, correspondence, education files, content related to entertaining, photography, and artwork.</p> <p>The calendars and datebooks span from 1964 to 2013, with those from 1964 to 1970 containing the most detail. In these earlier datebooks Didion and Dunne tracked their daily schedules and finances, including their invitations, appointments, phone call notes, dinner menus and guest lists, personal earnings and expenses, and other ephemera. Datebooks from 1971 to 1996 focus more exclusively on Didion and Dunne's expenses and appointments. In Didion's datebooks, she also noted films she watched and reviewed for <span class=\"title\">Vogue</span>, as well as instances of migraines. Datebooks from 1997 through 2013 only contain financial information.</p> <p>Didion was an avid notekeeper and retained notebooks containing personal information, story ideas, and medical notes. Didion's notebooks cover most of her career, from the 1960s through 2009, and address her international travel with the United States International Communication Agency, as well as her work on <span class=\"title\">True Confessions</span> and <span class=\"title\">Where I Was From</span>.</p> <p>The series holds a large run of personal correspondence dating from 1940 until 2021, which are mostly Didion family correspondence and condolence notes sent after the death of John Gregory Dunne in 2003 and Quintana Roo Dunne in 2005. The Didion family correspondence is mostly between Didion and her mother, father, and brother. Also present are letters written by John Dunne to various companies in which he airs his grievances about their services.</p> <p>Education and Early life files comprise Didion and Dunne's juvenilia from the 1930s through the 1960s. Didion's files contain her baby book and early schoolwork, including her work while studying at Berkeley before moving to New York City. Dunne's files contain his early writing in school literary magazines and his schoolwork while studying at Princeton. There are also some memorabilia files held here that contain items from the couple's life together.</p> <p>Family files hold Didion and Dunne ancestral histories and materials related to Quintana Roo Dunne. Bibles and other religious books, photographs, and transcripts of Didion's ancestors' journals from the 1840s and 1850s comprise the Didion family files. Dunne's family files hold correspondence (primarily with his mother), clippings, and photographs. Dunne also kept clipping files associated with the murder of his niece, Dominique Dunne, in 1982.</p> <p>The series also contains paperwork related to Quintana Roo Dunne's adoption and transfer to Barnard College. She also created a scrapbook of photographs that reflects her life as a young child in the 1960s through adulthood in 2002. Planning documents for Quintana's wedding held in 2003 are also present.</p> <p>Didion and Dunne were avid entertainers, and the series details both their dinner parties and household projects. Content related to the couple's parties include decorations, guestlists, menus, cookbooks, and recipes.</p> <p>Also present are photographs and artwork from the 1860s through the 2010s, which includes family photographs and professional portraits. Quintana Roo Dunne was a professional photographer and often took Didion and Dunne's author photographs. A selection of artwork and pictures are grouped together because they hung in Didion and Dunne's Manhattan home, and are arranged according to their noted room location.</p> <p>Be advised that some of Dunne's correspondence includes words that can be harmful and offensive.</p>"}