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Research File, 1820-2010 (continued)
BOX 28 Custer, George A., and family, 1870-1876, 1940-1957, 1971, 1997-2009
(2 folders)
BOX 29 Delano family, 1870, 1937, 2006-2007
BOX 29 Diné clans, 2002
BOX 29 Fort Griffin, Tex., and Comanche Tribe, 1880, 1900, 1930, 1999-2004
BOX 29 General, 1840, 1855-1856, 1866-1955, 1962, 1970, 1981, 1988-2005
(8 folders)
BOX 30 General, 2006-2010, undated
(7 folders)
BOX 30 Heskett family, 1902
BOX 30 Languages, 2004-2007
BOX 30 Maps, 2004-2005
BOX 31 Notebook, undated
BOX 31 Notes and related material, 1885-1940, 2000-2007, undated
(4 folders)
BOX 31 Photographs (includes photocopies), 1864-2010
BOX 32 Photographs (includes photocopies), 1864-2010
BOX 32 Pushmataha family, 2002, undated
BOX 32 Relatives, doubtful, 1870-2005
BOX 32 Research assistant projects, 2000
BOX 32 Reynolds, Albert Eugene, 1916, 1988
(2 folders)
BOX 32 Sioux Tribe families from Indian Genealogies: Kiowa Agency, O.T. 1902, 1902, 2009
BOX 32 Smith family, 1858-2006
(2 folders)
BOX 33 Smith family, 1858-2006
(5 folders)
BOX 34 Smith family, 1858-2006
(5 folders)
BOX 34 Swallow family, 1885-1940, undated
BOX 34 Thompson family, 1900-1907, 2002
(2 folders)
BOX 35 United States census records, 1820, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930
(7 folders)
BOX 36 United States census records, 1820, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930
(2 folders)
BOX 36 United States Indian census schedules and related documents, 1885-1940, undated
(4 folders)
BOX 37 United States Indian census schedules and related documents, 1885-1940, undated
(6 folders)
BOX 38 United States Indian census schedules and related documents, 1885-1940, undated
BOX 38 Waggoner family, 2001-2009, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 38 Wild Hog, 1875-1899, 2009
BOX 38-51 Writings File, 1971-2009
The Writings File series makes up almost one third of the collection and documents Ai’s writings in various forms, including poetry, novels, memoirs, plays and teleplays, and editorial work for magazines. Although Ai wrote first drafts in longhand, the Writings File contains only a few handwritten drafts with the bulk of the files comprised of typescripts and manuscript proofs.

Most of the poetry files consist of manuscripts and other materials for Ai’s books, although two collections of untitled poems and individual poems in various forms (handwritten, typescripts, proofs, and published) are also present. While the majority of Ai’s writings are written in the first person, they are not autobiographical. She took on the personae of historical figures or fictional persons using strong language and vivid images to convey her narrative. In later years, however, Ai wrote two poems relating to herself and her family, “Baby Florence: AKA Ai Coming Through Fire” (from No Surrender) and “The Saga of Charlie Smith” (from Dread). Also pertaining to her family and documented in the Writings File is Ai's unpublished novel “Black Blood: A Tale of Love, Death, Race, and Sex.” The plot is based loosely on the suspicious death of her cousin, a young man accidentally shot while in the home of a young white girl in 1961. Although Ai revised the novel several times, it was never published.

Also featured in the Writings File are notebooks that include poetry, jottings of ideas for poems and projects, to do lists, and occasionally drawings. A drawing in Ai's 1992 notebook reveals her distress when the poetry editor at Houghton, Mifflin and Company described her book Greed as pornographic and not appropriate for them. The second part of the drawing displays Ai's triumph with W.W. Norton & Company welcoming the book for publication. The Writings File also includes material relating to Ai’s readings, talks, and workshops about poetry.

Material types include correspondence, poems, book drafts, novels, plays and teleplays, notebooks, reviews, notes, broadsides, short stories, blurbs, posters, royalty statements, permission requests, business cards, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other material.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or type of material.
BOX 38 Blurbs, 1999-2002, undated
BOX 38 Caprice, 1996
BOX 38 Cimarron Review, 2000-2007
(2 folders)
BOX 38 Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1978-2000
BOX 39 Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1978-2000
BOX 39 Masters thesis, "Slice," 1971
BOX 39 Memoirs, undated
BOX 39 "Arrival"
BOX 39 "Crazy White Man"
BOX 39 Miscellaneous, 1981, 1990-1993, 1999-2002, undated
(4 folders)
BOX 39 Notebooks, 1988
BOX 39 Notebooks, 1991, undated
BOX 39 Notebooks, 1992, undated
BOX 40 Notebooks, 1998, undated
(6 folders)
BOX 40 Notes and ideas, 1995, undated
BOX 40 Permissions, 1992-2008
BOX 41 Permissions, 1992-2008
BOX 41 Plays and teleplays, undated
BOX 41 Novels
BOX 41 "Black Blood: A Tale of Love, Death, Race, and Sex"
BOX 41 Early drafts, undated
BOX 41 Set A
BOX 41 Set B
BOX 41 Set C
BOX 41 Set D
BOX 41 Set E
BOX 41 Set F
(2 folders)
BOX 42 Partial drafts and fragments, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 42 Revised drafts, undated
BOX 42 Set A
(2 folders)
BOX 42 Set B
(2 folders)
BOX 42 Set C
BOX 42 Set D
(2 folders)
BOX 43 Set E
BOX 43 W.W. Norton & Company, comments, 1996, undated
BOX 43 "The Lie of Redemption" (unpublished), undated
BOX 43 Set A
BOX 43 Set B
BOX 43 "The Sin Eater" (unpublished), 1998, undated
BOX 43 Poetry
BOX 43 Books
BOX 43 Cruelty: Poems (1973), 1973, undated
(3 folders)
BOX 43 Dread (2003), 2002
(2 folders)
BOX 44 Dread (2003), 2002
(3 folders)
BOX 44 Dread (2003), 2003
BOX 44 Fate: New Poems (1991)
BOX 44 Early drafts, undated
BOX 44 Final draft, 1990-1992
BOX 44 General, 1991, undated
BOX 44 Proofs, 1990
(2 folders)
BOX 44 "Ghost Pain" (unpublished), undated
BOX 45 Greed (1993)
BOX 45 Drafts, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 45 General, 1992-1993, undated
BOX 45 Proofs, 1993
(5 folders)
BOX 45 Killing Floor: Poems (1979), undated
BOX 46 Killing Floor: Poems (1979), undated
BOX 46 No Surrender (2010)
BOX 46 Drafts, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 46 General, 2006-2009, undated
BOX 46 Sin: Poems (1986)
BOX 46 Drafts, undated
(2 folders)
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