{"value"=>"<p>This sub-series contains appointment books, journals, and loose notes that provide informal accounts of Sophia Delza's daily life, activities, and ideas. Delza was not a conventional diarist, per se (a fact that she appeared to recognize in a notation on the cover of an exercise book that she began using while she was in China, which is marked, \"diary, more or less\"), but she wrote prolifically throughout her life. Delza often jotted down ideas and drew quick sketches in notebooks of all types and sizes, as well as on countless random scraps of paper. Some of the notebooks she maintained were clearly labeled, and several of these notebooks include accounts of her day-to-day life that place them into the category of journals, but many of her notebooks simply contain ideas to be developed into more formal writings or incorporated into her teaching. Titles, when indicated, were taken from the item itself, the container in which it was found, or have been supplied, using some part of the text from the first page as an identifier. Some of the material remains unidentified. Loose notes found in identified and unidentified groupings may include drafts of book chapters or articles that were later published; material that could be identified confidently as a manuscript draft is filed in the Writing for publication series. Of particular interest in this sub-series are the two appointment books and several journals that contain impressions and accounts of the performances and classes that Delza attended during her first stay in China (1948-1951).</p>"}