Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Organization
Dates
- Existence: 1963
Biographical / Historical
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, in New Haven, Connecticut, is the rare book library of Yale University.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Langston Hughes collection
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 28
Overview:
The Langston Hughes Collection consists of correspondence, writings, photographs, sound recordings, video recordings, electronic files, and other material documenting the life, work, and remembrance of Langston Hughes.Series I, Josephine DeWitt Rhodehamel Gift, is organized into three subseries: Letters from Langston Hughes, Writings of Langston Hughes and Writings of Others. There are letters to Rhodehamel and holograph and typescript versions of poems for Dear Lovely Death.Series...
Dates:
1924-1969
James Laughlin papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 654
Overview:
The James Laughlin Papers contain writings by Laughlin and others, an award acceptance speech by Laughlin, papers and audiocassettes relating to "New Directions at 50," the 50th Anniversary of New Directions exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, and various material removed from printed volumes.
Dates:
1939-1994, bulk 1976-1994