{"value"=>"<p>The largest series in Leary's papers, Series V contains the records he produced and accumulated during the last twenty years of his life, from his release from prison in 1976 until his death in 1996.</p> <p>Series V documents Leary's career as a writer and public speaker; his intermittent career as an actor; his business ventures, including Futique, Inc.; and his relationships with software companies with whom he collaborated, such as Interplay, Electronic Arts, and XOR Corporation. This series also traces Leary's association with scholars and organizations, such as Joseph Banks Rhine, (founder of the parapsychology lab at Duke University), Neil Freer, John C. Lilly, The L-5 Society, and Esalen Institute. Writings, correspondence, and a wide-variety of printed material and ephemera represent Leary's exploration of the various, but related, topics on which he focused throughout this period, including transhumanism, futurism, space migration, cyberculture, virtual reality, intelligence increase and life extension, personal freedom and self-realization, and, in his final years, cryonics and \"designer death.\"</p> <p>Correspondents include a wide variety of friends and colleagues in the entertainment, publishing, software, and art worlds, such as Larry Flynt, G. Gordon Liddy, Danny Sugarman, Helmut Newton, Bob Cuccione, Jr., Tony Scott, Keith Haring, Spike Jonze, David Byrne, Robert Anton Wilson, Cheech Marin, and Joi Ito.</p> <p>This series is organized into eight subseries: Correspondence, Chronological Files, Alphabetical Files, Writings, Financial Records, Legal Files, Family Files, and \"Countercultural Files.\" It contains a wide variety of paper material, including letters, manuscripts, printed material, contracts, calendars, posters, business cards, photographs, and artwork. The electronic records consist of textual documents-such as letters and writings-and executable software.</p> <p>These subseries were established by a combination of identifying and maintaining files and filing systems created by Leary and his associates, aggregating these files and systems into larger groups to facilitate use of the records, filing unsorted material when it was possible, and establishing new groups to accommodate unsorted materials and files not easily associated with other groups of files. More than in any other period, many of these records arrived at the Library unsorted, unidentified, and even unfoldered.</p> <p>Several attempts were made by Leary and his associates to review and organize his archives during his life, especially during the 1990s. These attempts were never fully realized, and were sometimes based on somewhat idiosyncratic categories and methodologies. When these systems were applied over a large body of material-such as in the so-called Countercultural Files-they were retained.</p> <p>There is a considerable overlap in the time periods and activities documented within the various subseries, especially between Correspondence, Chronological Files, Alphabetical Files, and Writings. Therefore, researchers with an interest in particular people and projects from this time in Leary's life are advised to scrutinize each subseries as a potential source.</p> <p>Some of Leary's projects continued work begun before 1976. Therefore, some related material can be located in Series IV. Some files contain material predating the time span of this series; this is a product of Leary and his collaborators mining his own archives for material relevant to a given project or interest he was pursuing during this time.</p>"}