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Gwendolyn Bennett Papers
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 106
Scope and Contents:
The collection provides evidence of the personal and professional life of Gwendolyn Bennett. The papers are comprised of correspondence, writings, and personal papers, which shed light into Bennett’s career as a writer and educator, as well as her private life, particularly her relationship with her parents.Correspondents include Langston Hughes, who accompanied his letters with four poems inscribed to Bennett: “Hotel Boy” (1926), “Stalingrad” (1942), “Goodmorning, Stalingrad” (1943),...
Dates:
1918-1976
Arna Bontemps Collection
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 6
Overview:
The Arna Bontemps Collections contains writings and correspondence presented to the James Weldon Johnson Collection by Mr. Bontemps.
Dates:
1934-1957
Countee Cullen Collection
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 7
Overview:
Countee Cullen gained fame principally as a poet, during the Harlem Renaissance, and later taught in the New York City school system.
Dates:
1923-1946
W. E. B. Du Bois Collection
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 8
Overview:
The W. E. B. Du Bois Collection contains Correspondence, Writings, including drafts of Dusk of Dawn, and The World and Africa, and Subject Files.
Dates:
1889-1970
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
Zora Neale Hurston Collection
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 9
Overview:
The Zora Neale Hurston Collection contains Correspondence, Writings, including drafts of her autobiography, Dust Tracks on the Road, the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and a play written in collaboration with Langston Hughes, "Mule Bone," as well as a study of Hurston written in 1972 by Robert Hemenway.
Dates:
1930-1972
Dorothy Peterson collection
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 10
Overview:
The Dorothy Peterson Collection contains Correspondence to Peterson from such persons as Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, and Carl Van Vechten, as well as Jerome Bowers Peterson memorabilia.
Dates:
1877-1966
Joel E. Spingarn Collection
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 11
Overview:
The Joel Spingarn Collection contains Correspondence with various persons, including W. E. B. Du Bois, and a German translation of a James Weldon Johnson poem done by Spingarn's wife, Amy.
Dates:
1910-1947
Wallace Thurman Collection
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 12
Overview:
The Wallace Thurman Collection contains Correspondence, (including letters from Langston Hughes), Writings, primarily versions of Aunt Hagar's Children and the musical play Harlem, written with William Jourdan Rapp, and Personal Papers.
Dates:
1927-1942