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Carolina Symposium. Records of the Carolina Symposium, 1927- 1986.

Title: Records of the Carolina Symposium, 1927- 1986.

Records of the Carolina Symposium and its predecessor, the Institute on Human Relations, include correspondence, memoranda, reports, financial records, publicity materials, photos, printed programs, speech transcripts, scrapbooks, and audiotapes of session proceedings. Especially well-documented is the 1958 Symposium on the American cultural tradition, with John Sparkman, Malcolm Cowley, Victor Reuther, Jonathan Daniels, Harry Golden, Sidney Hook, Benjamin Fine, Harry Ashmore, and other speakers. Also represented are the 1962 Symposium on "The Concept of Revolution," with James B. Reston and other speakers; the 1964 Symposium on "Arms and the Man," with William Fulbright, Hans Morgenthau, David Brinkley, Irving Howe, Marya Mannes, John Knowles, George McGovern, Adam Yarmolinsky, George Ball, and others; the 1966 Symposium on American myth, with John Kenneth Galbraith, Nelson Algren, Morris Udall, Al Capp, Tom Wolfe, C. Vann Woodward, and Ralph Ellison; the 1972 Symposium on the "Mind of the South"; the 1984 Symposium on "Population Resources and Environment"; and the 1986 Symposium on "Science, Technology, Society, and the Individual."

ArchivalResource: About 1700 items (6.0 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26978234 View

Society for Art, Religion and Contemporary Culture. Records, 1961-1990.

Title: Records, 1961-1990.

Administrative records, 1961-1990; minutes and proceedings; official correspondence; financial and business records; membership records; program records; publication records; photographs negatives; audiocassettes, sound reels, videocassettes.

ArchivalResource: 41 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181964226 View

Erskine, Albert Russell, 1911-. Papers : of Albert Russell Erskine, 1927-1981.

Title: Papers : of Albert Russell Erskine, 1927-1981.

The papers of the Random House editor chiefly concern Malcolm Lowry and William Faulkner. Correspondence in the Lowry papers discusses the work in progress of Malcolm and his wife Margerie Bonner, their health, and financial troubles. Two descriptions of his work in progress on The voyage that never ends and Hear us o Lord from Heaven thy dwelling place, are included. In the Faulkner papers is correspondence of Faulkner, his agent Harold Ober, Erskine and other editors, Linton Reynolds Massey, Joseph Leo Blotner, and Jack L. Capps about Faulkner's writings and their publication. There are also manuscripts and a proof of The wishing-tree, setting copies for Billy Budd and a portion of Sanctuary, and proofs of The covenant by James Michener, Uncollected stories of William and Selected letters of William Faulkner, both edited by Joseph Blotner. Also included are Selected letters of John O'Hara, and Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald, both edited by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Sanctuary, the original text, edited by Noel Earl Polk, Being here and Rumor verified by Robert Penn Warren, Robert Penn Warren talking, edited by Floyd C. Watkins and John Turner Hiers and The eye of the story by Eudora Welty. Of interest is a letter to Faulkner from Erskine about Ellison's Invisible man.

ArchivalResource: 180 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30793370 View

Fischer, John Sylvester, 1910-1978. John Sylvester Fischer papers, 1907-1980 (inclusive).

Title: John Sylvester Fischer papers, 1907-1980 (inclusive).

Family and general correspondence, subject files, writings, diaries and memorabilia. The general correspondence makes up nearly half the papers, documenting Fischer's professional career. As editor of Harper's Magazine (1935-1967) with time out as an editor of Harper & Brothers (1947-1953) he numbered many prominent writers among his correspondents. Notable are Bruce Catton, Norman Cousins, Ralph Ellison, Malcolm Foster, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Gardner, Brendan Gill, Walter Kerr, Irving Kristol, Henry Luce, Willie Morris, Reinhold Niebuhr, Milo Perkins, Bertrand Russell, Arthur Schlesinger, Barbara Tuchman, Eudora Welty, Rebecca West, Tom Wolfe and C. Vann Woodward. The correspondence also reflects his political activities, including his involvement in the presidential campaigns of Adlai Stevenson (as speechwriter) and John F. Kennedy. Political figures with whom Fischer corresponded include Maury Maverick, William Blair, Newton Minnow, Willard Wirtz, Dean Acheson, Carl Albert, Chester Bowles, McGeorge Bundy, Frank Church, J. William Fulbright, Barry Goldwater, Hubert Humphrey, Jacob Javits, Lyndon Johnson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Edmund Muskie, Nelson Rockefeller, Dean Rusk and Harry Truman. Family correspondence also reflects his political interests, and many of these letters discuss such events as Roosevelt's policies, and impressions of Germany and the Saar plebiscite where he was a reporter for the United Press in 1935. In the 1940s he wrote on the Ukraine and India, which he visited as chief representative of the Board of Economic Warfare. Much of the material in his subject files reflects his career in government with the Farm Security Administration and the Foreign Economic Administration as well as his research on political problems while a visting fellow at Yale University. Writings include a portion of his articles, books and speeches. Journals are extant for his school years (1925-1934) and there are also later travel journals (1943-1975) which are largely political. Also in the papers are photographs, clippings, and biographical sketches.

ArchivalResource: 25 linear ft. (60 boxes, 1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153805 View

Larry Neal papers, 1961-1985.

Title: Larry Neal papers, 1961-1985.

The Larry Neal Papers document his role as a writer/editor and seminal figure in the Black Arts Movement, and consists principally of Neal's diverse forms of writings, including essays, scripts, screenplays, poems, short stories and anthologies. Published copies of some of his writings are included in the collection, as are writings by colleagues and publishers.

ArchivalResource: 16.8 lin. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122517456 View

Ellison, Ralph. Documents : 1949-1958.

Title: Documents : 1949-1958.

Contents of the folder on Ralph Ellison include: three signed (in ink) essays. 1. "As the Spirit moves Mahalia." 2. "Brave words for a startling Occassion," concerns Invisible Man, and it was an address for presentation ceremony, National Book Award, Jan. 27, 1953. 3. "The Shadow and the act," relates to erroneous portrayal of African Americans in movies.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (20 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80420414 View

Ralph Ellison Papers, 1890-2005, (bulk 1930-1994)

Title: Ralph Ellison Papers 1890-2005 (bulk 1930-1994)

African-American author and educator. General correspondence, organizational correspondence and reports, family papers, drafts, notes, and production files for novels, essays, poetry, short stories, reviews, and other writings, speeches, lectures, and interviews, reference file, and miscellany documenting Ellison's career and development as a writer. Among the many works represented are (1985), (1952), (1964), and the second novel Ellison left unpublished at his death. Going to the Territory Invisible Man Shadow and Act

ArchivalResource: 74,800 items; 314 containers plus 25 overisze; 143 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms002008 View

ARLENE STERN INTERVIEWS WITH RALPH ELLISON, WRITER

Title: ARLENE STERN INTERVIEWS WITH RALPH ELLISON, WRITER

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/131630 View

Lerner, Max, 1902-2001. Max Lerner papers, 1927-1992 (inclusive).

Title: Max Lerner papers, 1927-1992 (inclusive).

The papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings, and other papers (including research and teaching materials, photographs, memorabilia, newspaper and periodical clippings, books, and radio and television tapes) of Max Lerner, an American educator, author, lecturer, historian, and political scientist. The papers focus on Lerner's public life and career with very little material on his personal or family life. The papers document Lerner's close association with Justice Felix Frankfurter and Harold J. Laski, his controversial writings on homosexuality, his work with the Democratic Party during Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaigns, his work on behalf of Jewish causes and Zionism, and his activities during the "red scare" of the 1950s.

ArchivalResource: 96.50 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702154142 View

Ellison, Ralph. Oral history interview with Ralph Ellison [sound recording] / interviewed by James Lafky and Truman Hayes.

Title: Oral history interview with Ralph Ellison [sound recording] / interviewed by James Lafky and Truman Hayes. 1970 Oct. 19.

Ellison describes his experiences as an African American author who grew up in Oklahoma and attended the Tuskegee Institute. He discusses his writing style, his novel The Invisible Man, the use of symbolism, African American characters, the author Richard Wright, and jazz music.

ArchivalResource: 1 sound tape reel (ca. 90 min.) : analog, 3 3/4 ips ; 7 in. + 1 transcript (22 leaves ; 28 cm.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45617270 View

Solotaroff, Ted, 1928-2008. American review 16 : the magazine of new writing / edited by Ted Solotaroff.

Title: American review 16 : the magazine of new writing / edited by Ted Solotaroff. [1973]

ArchivalResource: 164 p. ; 29 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48464456 View

Erskine, Albert, 1911-1993. Albert Erskine papers, 1930-1999.

Title: Albert Erskine papers, 1930-1999.

Random House editorial files of Albert Erskine contain correspondence with staff and authors; editorial fact sheets and notes; copy for book covers; financial documents including contracts and royalty statements; copies of articles, speeches and manuscripts; photographs; and reviews, advertising schedules and publicity for book publications. The collection also contains some personal correspondence and miscellaneous Random House staff correspondence. The William Faulkner series includes articles about Faulkner; setting copy and proof for "As I lay dying"; copies of the 1984 edition of "The sound and the fury" with editorial notes; smaller files on several other novels; correspondence and editorial work with Faulkner scholars including Joseph Blotner, James B. Meriwether, Michael Millgate, and Noel Polk; and material regarding the Faulkner collection at the University of Virginia including copies of Randon House /Faulkner correspondence. The James Michener series includes correspondence, editing notes and proofs, and design and production materials for several titles, chiefly "Alaska," "Iberia," "Kent State," "The source," and "Texas." The miscellaneous author series contains a variety of material including correspondence, editorial material, photographs and biographical information, proofs, mockups and reviews pertaining to works by Matthew J. Bruccoli, Bennett Cerf, Ralph Ellison, Richard A. Falk, James Joyce, Sheen T. Kassouf, Philip J. Klass, Rosanne Klass, Pierre La Mure, Malcolm Lowry, Cormac McCarthy including the typescript of "All the pretty horses," Michael Mewshaw, Michael Millgate, John O'Hara, Carlotta O'Neill, Eugene O'Neill, P.M. Pasinett, David A. Randall, Anthony Reinach, Karl Shapiro, Irwin Shaw, Martin Shubik, Oliver Statler, Edward O. Thorp, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty and Martin J. Whitman. The miscellaneous author series and the personal series, particularly the latter, contain letters from hundreds of literary figures including Richard Bankowsky, Saul Bellow, R.P. Blackmur, Paul Bowles, Cleanth Brooks, Matthew Bruccoli, Anthony Burgess, Malcolm Cowley, Donald Davidson, John Gould Fletcher, Shelby Foote, George Garrett, S.I. Hayakawa, Granville Hicks, Langston Hughes, William Inge, Paul Johnston, Andrew Lytle, Linton Massey, Arthur Miller, Maxim Kumin, Andre Malraux, Howard Nemerov, Gordon Parks, Walker Percy, Katherine Anne Porter, John Crowe Ransom, Budd Schulberg, Jean Stafford, Allan Tate, Frank Taylor, Peter Taylor, Carl Van Vechten, Glenway Wescott, Richard Wilbur, William Carlos Williams, and Bernard Wolfe. A diverse range of topics are covered in the editorial files and the correspondents. Among those of interest are Cleanth Brooks; Huey Long; Andrew Lytle; Van Wyck Brooks; Randall Jarrell; William Wyler, Ralph Ellison's reaction to Caldwell's "Tobacco Road"; Pearl Harbor and World War II; script writing and productions at MGM, 1949-1951; the Southern Review, 1935; Saigon in 1955; Afghanistan, 1963-1965; government disregard of possible flood damage to New Orleans, 1937; Tougaloo College; Katharine Anne Porter at dinner with Clifford Odets, Theodore Dreiser and Charlie Chaplin who ridiculed American music; and the U.D.C. at Beauvoir. There are numerous photographs of Random House authors, generally publicity shots, as well as snapshots of Katherine Anne Porter and Malcom Lowry. There is also a tape recording of the memorial sevice for Bennett Cerf.

ArchivalResource: 10,500 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647994034 View

LUNCHEON WITH VICE PRESIDENT HUBERT HUMPHREY AND AUTHORS MARYA MANNES, RALPH ELLISON, AND MERLE MILLER

Title: LUNCHEON WITH VICE PRESIDENT HUBERT HUMPHREY AND AUTHORS MARYA MANNES, RALPH ELLISON, AND MERLE MILLER

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/124376 View

Robert Penn Warren papers, 1906-1989

Title: Robert Penn Warren papers 1906-1989

The papers consist of drafts of manuscripts and related material, correspondence, writings about women, photographs, and newspaper clippings documenting Warren's life from his undergraduate years until his death in 1989.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 316; Other Storage Formats: Oversize, cold storage; Linear Feet: 145.0

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.warren View

Ellison, Ralph, 1914-. Remembering Jimmy, Manuscript, 1953-1958.

Title: Remembering Jimmy, Manuscript, 1953-1958.

A manuscript and speech from a prominent late twentieth century American writer; including a typescript of a speech Ellison gave at the National Book Award Presentation Ceremony, January 27, 1953, entitled "Brave Words for a Startling Occasion." There is also a manuscript for a short story entitled, "Remembering Jimmy," published in SATURDAY REVIEW, July 12, 1958. Both itemsare signed by the author.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 c.f. (2 archives folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145566720 View

Ellison, Ralph. Interview with Ralph Ellison, October 19, 1970, via telephone / interviewed by James Lafky, Truman Hayes, and class.

Title: Interview with Ralph Ellison, October 19, 1970, via telephone / interviewed by James Lafky, Truman Hayes, and class. 1970.

ArchivalResource: 22 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37868066 View

SPEECH BY RALPH ELLISON AT WOMEN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB

Title: SPEECH BY RALPH ELLISON AT WOMEN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/131629 View

Aldridge, John W. John W. Aldridge papers, 1942-2006.

Title: John W. Aldridge papers, 1942-2006.

Papers include personal and professional correspondence, scrapbooks, Hopwood Program material, teaching material and lecture notes, USIA material, as well as notes, articles, essays, and manuscripts for books, published and unpublished. Correspondents include R. P. Blackmur, William F. Buckley Jr., Malcolm Cowley, Ralph Ellison, Norman Mailer, Arthur Miller, William Gaddis, Joseph Heller, Wright Morris, and William Styron.

ArchivalResource: 14.5 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/436768164 View

Fischer, John Sylvester, 1910-1978. John Sylvester Fischer papers, 1907-1980 (inclusive).

Title: John Sylvester Fischer papers, 1907-1980 (inclusive).

Family and general correspondence, subject files, writings, diaries and memorabilia. The general correspondence makes up nearly half the papers, documenting Fischer's professional career. As editor of Harper's Magazine (1935-1967) with time out as an editor of Harper & Brothers (1947-1953) he numbered many prominent writers among his correspondents. Notable are Bruce Catton, Norman Cousins, Ralph Ellison, Malcolm Foster, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Gardner, Brendan Gill, Walter Kerr, Irving Kristol, Henry Luce, Willie Morris, Reinhold Niebuhr, Milo Perkins, Bertrand Russell, Arthur Schlesinger, Barbara Tuchman, Eudora Welty, Rebecca West, Tom Wolfe and C. Vann Woodward. The correspondence also reflects his political activities, including his involvement in the presidential campaigns of Adlai Stevenson (as speechwriter) and John F. Kennedy. Political figures with whom Fischer corresponded include Maury Maverick, William Blair, Newton Minnow, Willard Wirtz, Dean Acheson, Carl Albert, Chester Bowles, McGeorge Bundy, Frank Church, J. William Fulbright, Barry Goldwater, Hubert Humphrey, Jacob Javits, Lyndon Johnson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Edmund Muskie, Nelson Rockefeller, Dean Rusk and Harry Truman. Family correspondence also reflects his political interests, and many of these letters discuss such events as Roosevelt's policies, and impressions of Germany and the Saar plebiscite where he was a reporter for the United Press in 1935. In the 1940s he wrote on the Ukraine and India, which he visited as chief representative of the Board of Economic Warfare. Much of the material in his subject files reflects his career in government with the Farm Security Administration and the Foreign Economic Administration as well as his research on political problems while a visting fellow at Yale University. Writings include a portion of his articles, books and speeches. Journals are extant for his school years (1925-1934) and there are also later travel journals (1943-1975) which are largely political. Also in the papers are photographs, clippings, and biographical sketches.

ArchivalResource: 25 linear ft. (60 boxes, 1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122370012 View

Miscellaneous writings, ca. 1893-1956.

Title: Miscellaneous writings, ca. 1893-1956.

Items include "Gap Road," by George Folsom Cranberry (1876-1956), a short story, 23 p., typescript, undated; "Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke," by Ralph Ellison (b. 1914), an essay concerning Afro-American literature and folklore, 16 p., typescript with handwritten emendations, undated; "Daughter of the Piedmont: Chapel Hill's First Co-Ed Graduate," the autobiography of Sallie Walker Stockard (b. 1869), edited by Ione M. Kilmer, discussing life in rural Alamance County, N.C., in the late nineteenth century and the author's education at the University of North Carolina and elsewhere, 97 p., photocopy of typescript, undated; and a handwritten copy of poems of various authors including Arthur Cleveland Coxe.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24990501 View

Hyman, Stanley Edgar, 1919-1970. Papers, 1932-1978 (bulk 1938-1970).

Title: Papers, 1932-1978 (bulk 1938-1970).

Correspondence, journal, literary file, subject file, family papers, and miscellany, relating to Hyman's activities as a literary critic and professor at Bennington College, and to his family and personal life. Literary file contains ms. drafts, notes, outlines, proofs, and reviews of Hyman's books as well as articles and book reviews he wrote for periodicals such as the New Leader, New Masses, New Republic, and New Yorker. Collection contains 111 letters, postcards, and telegrams, from Hyman's wife, author Shirley Jackson (1938-1942, 1951, and n.d.). Other correspondents include Renata Adler, Newton Arvin, John Barth, Maud Bodkin, Kenneth Burke, Joseph Campbell, Malcolm Cowley, Robert Creeley, T.S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, William Empson, James T. Farrell, Francis Fergusson, Donald Finkel, Nat Hentoff, Randell Jarrell, Richard Kostelanetz, Frank Lentricchia, Bernard Malamud, Marianne Moore, Howard Nemerov, Frank E. Orenstein, Thomas Pynchon, Lord Raglan, I.A. Richards, Thomas A. Sebeok, John Updike, and Jay Williams.

ArchivalResource: 18.6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30891852 View

Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities records, 1965-1984.

Title: Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities records, 1965-1984.

Three professors held the Albert Schweitzer Chair at NYU between 1965 and 1984: Conor Cruise O'Brien, Ralph Ellison, and Aileen Ward. Their programs emphasised inter-racial awareness, and relevance to present day concerns.Most of the material relates to the tenure of Conor Cruise O'Brien (1965-1969). It includes manuscripts by O'Brien, seminar programs, transcripts and recordings of lectures, manuscripts by Julian Mayfield, and student papers and proposals. Lecturers and participants in seminars and programs included Herbert Marcuse, Noam Chomsky, Edward Thompson, Stuart Hampshire, David Erdman, Max Gordon, Gabriel Kolko, Alger Hiss, Charles P. Kelly, Thomas Hart Wilkins, George Quasha, Paul Neuberg, Anatole Broyard, and Jonathan Mirsky.

ArchivalResource: 7.0 linear ft.12 boxes.125 tapes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58786376 View

West, Dorothy, 1909-. Papers, 1914-1985 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1914-1985 (inclusive).

Collection contains drafts, manuscripts of published and unpublished novels and short stories, journal excerpts, correspondence from other writers of the Harlem Renaissance, letters, 1933-1934, from West in the Soviet Union to her family, articles she wrote for her Vineyard Gazette column, articles about her, photographs, a scrapbook of reviews and information pertaining to the first publication of The Living is Easy, unpublished manuscripts by other Harlem Renaissance writers (Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, and Arna Bontemps) submitted to Challenge, and a tape of a TV interview with West.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122521829 View

Agee, James, 1909-1955. Recollections of James Agee : radio program, [197-?].

Title: Recollections of James Agee : radio program, [197-?].

Recollections of James Agee by John Huston, Father James Flye, Walker Evans, Ralph Ellison, Wilder Hobson, Nan Taylor, David McDowell and Alfred Kazin. Radio program written and produced by WBAI, NY.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 33 leaves.Tape: 1 reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309721980 View

Richard Wright papers, 1927-1978

Title: Richard Wright papers 1927-1978

The Richard Wright Papers contain manuscripts, correspondence with other writers such as Nelson Algren, Arna Bontemps, Ralph Ellison, Chester Himes, Langston Hughes, Gunnar Myrdal and Margaret Walker, photographs, financial and legal documents and printed materials relating to the life and work of Richard Wright. Included are drafts of such works as Black Boy and Native Son, photographs of trips to Spain and Ghana, various items of personal memorabilia such as Wright's Spingarn Medal, and a film of Wright's screen test for the movie version of "Native Son".

ArchivalResource: 72.70 linear ft. (143 boxes, including oversize) + 5 broadsides + 2 cold storage items

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.wright View

Lillard, Stewart, 1940-. Papers, 1849-2000 (bulk 1967-1989).

Title: Papers, 1849-2000 (bulk 1967-1989).

Primarily papers relating to his research on Ralph Ellison. Includes correspondence with Ellison and others, notes, articles, and information on Ellison's South Carolina ancestors. Also includes material from Lillard's 1989 Charlotte city council campaign and political campaign materials from the Charlotte area.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear feet (ca. 450 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46876942 View

Writers' Program, New York City: Negroes of New York collection, 1936-1941.

Title: Writers' Program, New York City: Negroes of New York collection, 1936-1941.

Collection consists of 41 studies of the history of blacks in New York City. Included are biographical sketches, studies relating to cultural achievements, history, slavery, economics, sports, theater, churches, as well as other subjects. Authors of the studies include Ralph Ellison, Abram Hill, and Ellen Tarry. Also, manuscript of The Negro in New York: An Informal Social History edited by Roi Ottley, which originally was prepared by the Federal Writers Project of New York City.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 4.8 lin. ft.Copies: 5 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122575943 View

Ellison, Ralph. Ralph Ellison letter to R. Frederick Allen, 1962 March 22.

Title: Ralph Ellison letter to R. Frederick Allen, 1962 March 22.

Signed typescript letter (typed by Ellison's wife), from Ellison to Allen, thanking him for a birthday greeting.

ArchivalResource: 1 page : 28 x 22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/749858456 View

Ellison, Ralph. Negro and the war : Typescript, undated.

Title: Negro and the war : Typescript, undated.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612737379 View

Moore, Robert H. (Robert Henry), 1940-. Robert H. Moore audiocassettes, 1962-1974.

Title: Robert H. Moore audiocassettes, 1962-1974.

The collection includes audio recordings of William Faulkner's April 1962 remarks at the United States Military Academy (with an introduction by William C. Westmoreland), conversations between Robert H. Moore and Faulkner scholar James B. Meriwether, Ralph Ellison's 1969 remarks at the United States Military Academy, Moore's reading of several Kurt Vonnegut articles that appeared in the New York Times, and conversations among United States Military Academy professors and others who were also Vietnam War veterans regarding their perspectives on the war.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232120555 View

Ellison, Ralph. Letter to Bert Krantz, 1990 February 23.

Title: Letter to Bert Krantz, 1990 February 23.

Ellison writes to his copy editor at Random House after her retirement to Florida. He advises her to relax; sends news of Bob Bernstein and Joe Fox; comments on his latest story and the health of his wife and himself; and concludes with news of the Erskine family, particularly Albert who has recently visited Eleanor Warren. He also reports that Albert approves of Nelson Mandela and disapproves of Jesse Jackson's recent African trip to see Mandela.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57123088 View

Papers, 1938-1972.

Title: Papers, 1938-1972.

Collection includes published books, articles, introductions and prefaces, and criticism of Morris' work. Also, a typescript review of Ralph Ellison's THE INVISIBLE MAN submitted to Morris with his corrections and commentary; a book, ON THE LINE, with Morris' notations; and galley proofs.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155482801 View

Ellison, Ralph. Ralph Ellison papers, 1990-1994.

Title: Ralph Ellison papers, 1990-1994.

Consisting of 2 letters, 7 Sept. 1990 and 17 June 1992, to Erskine College history professor Lowry Ware, re Ellison's South Carolina connections, particularly the Abbeville roots of his grandfather, Alfred Ellison. Also including two published features, "Visible Man," by David Remnick (New Yorker, 14 Mar. 1994); and obituary "Late author Ellison had S.C. roots," by Richard Maschal (The State, 1 May 1994).

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32828103 View

Dawson, William Levi, 1899-1990. William Levi Dawson papers, 1903-1990.

Title: William Levi Dawson papers, 1903-1990.

The collection contains the personal papers of William Levi Dawson from 1903-1990. The papers include correspondence, original scores of Dawson's works; files relating to Dawson's music publishing; writings by Dawson; subject files; notebooks, address books; and scrapbooks; personal and family papers; photographs; audio visual materials; ephemera; and printed material, including sheet music collected by Dawson.

ArchivalResource: 70 linear ft. (119 boxes and 92 OP)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84669561 View

Printed material removed from Albert Murray manuscript collection related to Ralph Ellison.

Title: Printed material removed from Albert Murray manuscript collection related to Ralph Ellison.

ArchivalResource: 1 box

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612799915 View

Stanley Edgar Hyman Papers, 1932-1978, (bulk 1938-1970)

Title: Stanley Edgar Hyman Papers 1932-1978 (bulk 1938-1970)

Literary critic and educator. Correspondence, memoranda, journal, manuscripts of articles, book reviews, and books, research material, notes, reports, and other papers relating to Hyman's career as literary critic, book reviewer, and professor of language, literature, and the history of myth and ritual at Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont. Of special interest are files pertaining to his book review column published in the and letters written to Hyman by his wife, Shirley Jackson, and by his friend and mentor, Kenneth Burke. New Leader

ArchivalResource: 14,000 items; 47 containers; 18.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997001 View

Spencer, Elizabeth, 1921-. Elizabeth Spencer papers, 1911-2003 (bulk 1999-2003.

Title: Elizabeth Spencer papers, 1911-2003 (bulk 1999-2003.

Correspondence, writings and related materials, and pictures. Business and personal correspondence, 1948-2003 (bulk 1999-2003), includes both letters and printed copies of incoming and outgoing emails. Subjects include Eudora Welty, Spencer's writings and professional activities, Spencer family history, John McCain's presidential run in 2000, and other topics. Writings, 1950s, 1987-2002, are chiefly by or about Spencer. Pictures include photographs of Spencer; family and friends; travels; other writers; and writing events. Also included is a series of pictures that Spencer selected for possible inclusion in her memoir "Landscapes of the Heart." Note that major correspondents and other names significant in the collection appear as access points in this record.

ArchivalResource: About 6000 items (10.0 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59109545 View

Literary and scholarly manuscripts collection, [ca. 1930-1980]

Title: Literary and scholarly manuscripts collection, [ca. 1930-1980]

Typescripts of novels, biographies, essays, and poems on historical, sociological and educational issues, and conference papers. Some of the typescripts appear as final drafts, others as working drafts with author's annotations and corrections. Manuscripts included are SLAVERY AND CAPITALISM by Eric Williams; BLACK METROPLIS by Horace Cayton and St. Clair Drake; LIFE IN A HAITIAN VALLEY by Melville J. Herskovits: JONAH'S GOURD VINE by Zora Neale Hurston; AMERICAN DILEMMA by Gunnar Myrdal; and poems by Waring Cuney. Other authors represented are Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, Horace Mann Bond, Lloyd Brown, Helen Buckler, Henrietta Buckmaster, John H. Clark, Benjamin Davis, Owen Dodson, Ralph Ellison, Arthur Huff Fauset, and E. Franklin Frazier. Conference material includes Melville J. Herskovits and the Future of Africana Studies (Schomburg Center, May 1988) Marcus Garvey Centennial Conference (Jamaica, November 1987), and Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (Nigeria, 1977)

ArchivalResource: 35.4 lin. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81357526 View

Online Archive of California. Ralph Ellison collection, 1938-1993.

Title: Ralph Ellison collection, 1938-1993.

This collection includes copies of articles, short stories, essays, speeches and interviews by Ellison. A small amount of realia related to Ellison's writing is also included.

ArchivalResource: 3 document boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60339107 View

Hopwood Awards Collection, 1930-

Title: Hopwood Awards Collection, 1930-

Consists of correspondence relating to the annual University of Michigan student contests in creative literature for the Avery Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Prizes funded by income from the Avery Hopwood bequest.

ArchivalResource: 8, 111 items.

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/990039225410106381 View

Sears, Donald A. Correspondence of Donald A. Sears, 1966-1970.

Title: Correspondence of Donald A. Sears, 1966-1970.

A group of thirty-five letters, mainly letters from various authors to Donald A. Sears, and several letters from Sears to various authors, regarding the Book of the Month Club, the Book of the Month Club Writing Fellowship Program, and other literary matters. Correspondents include Ray Bradbury, Ralph Ellison, May Sarton, Karl Jay Shapiro, William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut, and others.

ArchivalResource: 36 items, including ephemera.

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