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Melvin Beaunorus Tolson papers, 1932-1975

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Writings File, 1938-1968 (continued)
BOX 10 "The Foreground of Negro Poetry," undated
BOX 10 "If the Negro Migrated From the South," circa 1965
BOX 10 "Lines of a Poet and the Way of a Pilgrim" (Robert Frost), undated
BOX 10 "The Odyssey of a Manuscript," undated
BOX 10 "A Prose Poem Allegory," 1949
BOX 10 "These Seek A Country" (religion), undated
BOX 10 Untitled fragment on African-American culture, undated
BOX 10-13 Addition, 1880-1984
Correspondence, writings, notes, photographs, family papers, printed matter, and newspaper clippings.
Arranged in two groups as a miscellany and a Robert M. Farnsworth research file. Tolson documents are organized to correspond with the three preceding series. Robert M. Farnsworth's documents are arranged alphabetically by subject or document type.
BOX 10 Miscellany
BOX 10 General correspondence, 1942, 1975
BOX 10 Subject file
BOX 10 Clippings, 1939-1973, undated
BOX 10 Family papers, 1973, undated
BOX 10 Photographs, 1944-1954, undated
BOX 10 Printed matter, 1951-1954
BOX 10 Writings, drama, "The Fire in the Flint," undated
BOX 11 Robert M. Farnsworth research file
BOX 11 Farnsworth documents
BOX 11 Academic seminars and book promotion, 1981-1984
BOX 11 Correspondence
BOX 11 Archives and libraries
BOX 11 Library of Congress, Sylvia Render, 1976-1981
BOX 11 Miscellaneous, 1978-1982
BOX 11 Missouri, 1980-1982
BOX 11 Basler, Roy, and David Ray, 1971-1973
BOX 11 Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973-1974
BOX 11 Jarrett, Hobart, 1981-1984
BOX 11 Miscellaneous, 1973-1984, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 11 Russell, Mariann, 1978-1984
BOX 11 Tolson, Arthur (son), 1978-1984, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 11 Tolson, Ruth S. (wife), 1973-1981
(2 folders)
BOX 11 Tolson family, miscellaneous, 1976-1984
BOX 11 Webster, Thomas A., 1980-1981
BOX 11 Notes
BOX 11 Collected from others, 1966, undated
BOX 11 General, undated
BOX 11 Literary criticism, 1972-1979
BOX 11 Tape recordings, undated
BOX 11 Tolson documents
BOX 11 Correspondence, 1937-1966
BOX 11 Subject file
BOX 11 Biographical material, 1966, 1981
BOX 11 Family history, 1880-1900, 1912, 1934, 1945-1981, undated
BOX 12 Langston, Okla., city council, 1942, 1957
BOX 12 Langston University, Langston, Okla., 1952-1958, 1966, 1973
BOX 12 Liberia, 1954
BOX 12 Lincoln University, Lincoln University, Pa., 1915-1929, 1943-1966, 1980
BOX 12 Miscellany, 1938-1984
BOX 12 Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, 1937-1940, 1966
BOX 12 Photographs, 1918-1966, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 12 Publicity and reviews of Tolson's books, 1944-1966
BOX 12 Wiley College, Marshall, Tex., 1925-1947, 1967-1982, undated
BOX 12 Writings
BOX 12 Book reviews, 1950-1955, 1965, undated
BOX 12 Drama, "Black No More," typescript, undated
(3 folders)
BOX 13 Essays
BOX 13 "The Foreground of Negro Poetry," 1963
BOX 13 "Langston University Reception in Honor of His Excellency William V. S. Tubman, President of the Republic of Liberia," 1954
BOX 13 "Negro Mayor Condemns Ex-Fellow Townsman, Harry S. Truman," draft fragment and related material, circa 1952, undated
BOX 13 "The Negro Poet," 1958
BOX 13 "The Odyssey of a Manuscript," revised draft, undated
BOX 13 "She Can't Take It," Flash, 1939
BOX 13 "Some Problems of the Writer as Artist," outline, undated
BOX 13 Journalism
BOX 13 "Cabbage and Caviar," column, Washington Tribune, Washington, D.C., photocopies, 1937-1944
(3 folders)
BOX 13 "Langston Hughes' Goodbye Christ a Challenge and Warning," Pittsburgh Courier, 1933
BOX 13 Master's thesis, Columbia University, New York, N.Y., "The Harlem Group of Negro Writers," 1940
BOX 13 Notes and fragments
BOX 13 Ellison, Ralph, and Invisible Man, 1966
BOX 13 Frost, Robert, undated
BOX 13 Miscellaneous, undated
BOX 13 Poetry
BOX 13 Early poems and stories for school publications, 1917-1918, 1926
BOX 13 Posthumous compilation with notes, undated
BOX 13 Published in journals or included in books, 1937-1942, undated
BOX 13 Speeches, draft text of program about his poetry, circa 1966

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