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AMST 704 / ENGL 886 / WGSS 704: War and Everyday Life: February 5 Beinecke Session

Materials from the following collections were explored in today's class session with Melissa Barton, Curator for Prose and Drama, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (melissa.barton@yale.edu)..

Collection Materials

“More Processed” Collections

Langston Hughes Papers, JWJ MSS 26link to the finding aid for this collection in Archives at Yale

  1. Photographs from Spain, 1937, Box 460
  2. “Langston Hughes on Spain,” drafts, Box 314
  3. EAR radio Madrid speech, “Negroes in Spain,” typescript, Box 479
  4. Journal, “Paris-Spain 1937,” Box 492
  5. Memos, 1937, Box 494

James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson Papers, JWJ MSS 49 - link to the finding aid for this collection in Archives at Yale

  1. Correspondence from Haiti, Box 8
  2. Letters and postcards sent by JWJ to GNJ from Haiti, Box 41
  3. Consular service papers including report on “Armed Intervention” in Corinto, Nicaragua, Box 88
  4. Photographs of the Johnsons in Nicaragua and Haiti, Box 108
  5. Notes and drafts of Special Report on Haiti, Box 85

A “Less Processed” Collection

Yusef Komunyakaa Papers, JWJ MSS 152 - link to the finding aid for this collection in Archives at Yale

  1. Notes, drafts, typescripts, galley proofs, writings of others, and other papers, including typescripts and galleys of Dien Cai Dau, Box 9
  2. Notes, drafts, correspondence, photographs, and other papers, Box 1
  3. Professional correspondence and other papers, Box 21