{"value"=>"<p>This series consists of holograph notes kept by Ms Sayre on loose sheets, spiral notepads (disbanded) and notebooks arranged chronologically in the period c1949-1994 and undated. The notes record her thoughts, introspections, social life and activities from her student days at The Putney School and Radcliffe College throughout much of her adult life. The notes in the earlier period (1950s to mid-1960s) describe her efforts to become established in Europe as a freelance writer. Included are shipboard notes made while crossing the Atlantic, lengthy notes of her travels in England, Wales, France and Ireland; her life in Paris where she studied French literature while searching for employment as a writer; and extensive notes relating to her settlement in London, the arrangement of her domestic affairs there, her meetings with the London literati including Arthur Koestler and the novelist, Elizabeth Jane Howard; and her brief marriage and divorce. During the later period there are notes relating to her sojourns at Yaddo in the summers of 1986 and 1989; her literary work, and extensive notes in the the form of reminiscences of her parents, especially her father, the breakup of her marriage, her romantic life, and her loneliness and frustration at failing to find an enduring love relationship. Included is one folder of notes made by Ms Sayre taken from her letters to Peter Judd.</p>"}