Personal Files Series, 1942-2007 and undated

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Access restricted: Personal journals are closed for fifty years from the original date of creation of each item.]

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21 boxes

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Contains information about Painter's personal life and, to a lesser extent, her family and her professional career. Materials include copies of her curricula vitae through the years; awards and honors; biographical citations about her from various reference works; clippings; appointment calendars and telephone logs; information about a number of family members, especially her parents; class notes and other documents from her student years abroad in Ghana and France; and over three dozen of her personal journals. By far, the journals are the most substantive item in the series in both richness and quantity of information. In more than five thousand manuscript pages Painter records details of her personal and professional life and her thoughts about her writing for almost thirty years, up to 1989; there then follows a gap of nine years before the journals resume in 1998, though in considerably less detail. Arranged alphabetically by category in the following folder groups: Biographical, Calendars and Contacts, Family and Friends, Journals, Student Years, and Other Personal Papers. Folders are then arranged chronologically in those categories with the exception of the alphabetical arrangements of Family and Friends and Other Personal Papers.

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