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Part I: Closed, 1932-1994 (continued)
Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project
Assignments, 1938-1941
Miscellany, 1938-1942
Reports
Anti-Semitism, undated
“Famous Trials,” 1941
Folklore, circa 1938
(2 folders)
History of New York, N.Y., undated
“Jews in American Theatre,” circa 1939
BOX I:221 “The Negro and the War,” circa 1940
(3 folders)
“Negro Leadership,” undated
“Negroes of New York”
Chapters II, V, VI, VII, VIII, 1940
(5 folders)
“Negroes of New York”
Notes, undated
Religion and abolitionism, undated
General Correspondence
“A-Ai” miscellaneous, 1940, 1946-1992
Bellow, Saul, 1952-1964, 1977, 1994
(2 folders)
BOX I:222 Burke, Kenneth, 1945-1954, 1964-1972, 1981-1985
(3 folders)
Harrison, Hazel, 1936-1940, 1954, 1967-1969
Hughes, Langston, 1936-1966
Lazenberry, Joe, 1935-1939
Negro Quarterly, 1940-1945, 1968
(2 folders)
Wright, Richard and Ellen, 1937-1953
(2 folders)
Unidentified, undated
Organizations File
National Negro Congress, 1940
Writings File
Essays and essay collections
American Negro Congress, circa 1940
“Camp Lost Colony,” 1940
“A Congress Jim Crow Didn't Attend,” 1940
Editorial comments
General, circa 1937, 1970
Negro Quarterly, 1942-1944
(2 folders)
“Harlem Is Nowhere” (1964), 1947-1948
(3 folders)
Hemingway, Ernest, unfinished essay, circa 1940
(2 folders)
“Imprisoned in Words,” 1946-1947
“Let Us Consider the Harlem Crime Wave,” circa 1943
BOX I:223 Miscellaneous notes, 1943, 1953-1991
(2 folders)
New American left wing writers, circa 1935
“Philippine Writers Report,” 1941
“Recent Negro Fiction” (1941), 1941
(2 folders)
“Richard Wright's Blues” (1945) draft fragments and notes, 1945
“The Shadow and the Act” (1949), 1949-1950
Shadow and Act (1964)
Drafts
An American Dilemma: A Review,” 1944
Miscellaneous text, 1964-1966
“Twentieth Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity,” circa 1946, 1953
“Society, Morality, and the Novel,” The Living Novel (1957), 1956-1963
“Tell It Like It Is, Baby” (1965)
Drafts, 1965-1969, 1990
(2 folders)
Galleys, notes, and general material, 1965-1969, 1990
“Three Southern Novels,” 1944
Unidentified fragments, undated
(2 folders)
“The World and the Jug” (1963), notes, undated
Memoirs, draft fragment, undated
BOX I:224 Miscellany
Notes, 1941-1988
(4 folders)
Plot ideas, undated
Unidentified fragments, circa 1940, 1963
(3 folders)
Novels
Hickman novel
Drafts
Episodes
Bliss and Severin's mother, undated
Bliss and Sister Georgia, undated
Bliss, Body, and Meatwhistle, 1959, 1981
Cliofus talks with McIntyre, undated
Hickman and Wilhite at Mister Jessie's, complete sequences, 1968
Hickman and Wilhite leave the Lincoln Memorial, undated
“Hickman Reminiscing,” undated
Hickman with Bliss at the hospital, undated
“McIntyre's Dream”
Hitching post boy, undated
Mother Strothers, undated
“Mr. Love New,” undated
BOX I:225 Mr. Love New and Severin, undated
(2 folders)
“Prologue,” undated
Severin and the shooting of the senator, undated
Unidentified pages, undated
Notes and notebooks, 1956-1989
(12 folders)
Invisible Man
Drafts
Episodes
“At Mary's,” undated
“Bar Scene, El Toro,” undated
“Battle Royal,” undated
“Brockaway (Paint Factory),” undated
“Brotherhood,” undated
(2 folders)
BOX I:226 “Campus,” undated
“Chapel,” first draft and notes, undated
“Hospital Alley Scene,” also titled “Nigger, What Kinda Man Am I?” undated
“Hospital and St. Mary's” (in continuity), undated
“Hospital Scene,” working copy, undated
Miscellaneous scenes, undated
“New York,” first draft and notes, undated
“Perception,” original draft titled “Eviction, Priest, Parade, Party, Bank, and Apartment,” undated
“Priest Scene,” undated
“Prologue,” undated
“Riot,” undated
“Woodridge,” undated
Fragments and partial drafts, 1951
(5 folders)
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