C.L.R. James Institute records, 1932-2003, bulk 1983-1999

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Series II: C.L.R. James Institute

The C.L.R. James Institute was founded in 1984 by Jim Murray with the full authorization of C.L.R. James. It was a project of The C.L.R. James Foundation, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation based in New York City.

The files are incomplete and random. They contain correspondence, copies of articles and essays, proofs of books and articles, notes, reports, print-outs, printed ephemera, etc

There is an extensive audio and digital component to the archives



Box 1 Folder 1 JL/JL*.* Transcripts of documents. "I read and annotated most of this in Florida 1/94" Many entries annotated with title of Word documents eg. JL12590.doc


Box 1 Folder 2 Limlong (xtree list)


Box 1 Folder 3 Diary 1988.


Box 1 Folder 4 Raps Not on Disk -- Typescript


Box 1 Folder 5 Dear Mom 5/87 Letter", 5/87


Box 1 Folder 6 Texas. Chap."


Box 1 Folder 7 US Wins Vietnam War" Broadside.


Box 1 Folder 8 Quake Hits Series" Labels


Box 1 Folder 9 Reunion Piece".


Box 1 Folder 11 Me & Miscellaneous Notes -- Review All



Box 2 Folder 1 Writing Miscellaneous


Box 2 Folder 2 Society: All Miscellaneous


Box 2 Folder 3 Earthy & Other Poems & Poems To Films


Box 2 Folder 4 Swanee Article & Swap Article


Box 2 Folder 5 Correspondence, 3/88


Box 2 Folder 6 Correspondence & Ink Poems, 1977


Box 2 Folder 7 Correspondence, October 1988


Box 2 Folder 8 Jim Correspondence, 1980s


Box 2 Folder 9 Old Letters, Miscellaneous


Box 2 Folder 10 Email print outs, 1996


Box 2 Folder 11 Brian Folder, 4/5/1995


Box 2 Folder 12 January 1996 (CAT) Archive Storage-Done to these papers, January 1996


Box 2 Folder 13 Reader's Report re. C.L.R. James Reader


Box 2 Folder 14 Old Westbury papers


Box 2 Folder 15 Correspondence-My letters (written), 1986


Box 2 Folder 16 Correspondence, January 1987


Box 2 Folder 17 Correspondence, 12/1986


Box 2 Folder 18 Correspondence, 1985 Outgoing, 1985



Box 3 Folder 1 Personal Letters To Me (James Murray), 1984-1985


Box 3 Folder 2 List of Mailing List, 1991


Box 3 Folder 3 Invoice Blanks, October 1990


Box 3 Folder 4 POPREV*.*


Box 3 Folder 5 Fredenck, Chester 1996 Story, 1996


Box 3 Folder 6 Invoice Blanks, February1993


Box 3 Folder 7 Charles 10/1995 -- Writings, 10/1995


Box 3 Folder 8 Correspondence, November 1989-October 1990


Box 3 Folder 9 Articles by Friends


Box 3 Folder 10 Gulf War


Box 3 Folder 11 Charles Frederick: Gulf War


Box 3 Folder 12 Prickly Pear Press


Box 3 Folder 13 Room Postcard Labels


Box 3 Folder 14 Lippard article, May 1992


Box 3 Folder 15 Christy Rupp, September 1991


Box 3 Folder 16 Cultural Bill of Rights, February1988


Box 3 Folder 17 Miscellaneous leaflets


Box 3 Folder 18 Mon letter draft sent Monday 6/1


Box 3 Folder 19 Correspondence, 1983


Box 3 Folder 20 76 Letters, 1976-1979


Box 3 Folder 21 Campbell, Dave 1/1991 intern report, 1/1991



Box 4 Folder 1 JCat: Photo Xerox


Box 4 Folder 2 JCat refile urgent


Box 4 Folder 3 HPG*.* Reports


Box 4 Folder 4 HP Reviews -- A&G


Box 4 Folder 5 HP & JC folder: MEDIA Reports


Box 4 Folder 6 HP Pamphlets


Box 4 Folder 7 Ficek, Douglas Paper: "C.L.R. James and Religion"


Box 4 Folder 8 HP Reviews--J&G--Readers


Box 4 Folder 9 HPJ* Reports


Box 4 Folder 10 Desk--Urgent--This Month


Box 4 Folder 11 "The Interpretation of History is a Class-Question?: C.L.R. James and the Making of a New-Marxist Plan African Historiography" by Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua


Box 4 Folder 12 FF Cables


Box 4 Folder 13 Catalog Reports



Box 5 Folder 1 Interns & Workers


Box 5 Folder 2 Miscellaneous correspondence, lists, etc.


Box 5 Folder 3 Samuel Otter, January 2003


Box 5 Folder 4 ML 01 Work


Box 5 Folder 5 ML Master, April 2002


Box 5 Folder 6 '93 Business


Box 5 Folder 7 Peterson, Rachel, Schomberg


Box 5 Folder 8 Refile, March2002


Box 5 Folder 9 Frank Rosengarten -- Detroit-Me


Box 5 Folder 10 CLTJI Fall 94 & Blackwells


Box 5 Folder 11 Margaret letter-notes* for Pam 3


Box 5 Folder 12 0624 from Grant Book '96, 0624


Box 5 Folder 13 CLRJI-Addresses 90s


Box 5 Folder 14 CLRJI Circular letter


Box 5 Folder 15 "Brixton Thanksgiving, 1983" by Jim Murray


Box 5 Folder 16 CLRJI letters


Box 5 Folder 17 Notebook: Washington 10/94. JCAT 10.94


Box 5 Folder 18 Notebook: Nello Papers Diary, summer 92



Box 6 Folder 1 Williams, Clive "Burley on the Hill…" with photograph of Williams and C.L.R. James


Box 6 Folder 2 Pinto, Michelle "Rethinking Republicanism" January 8, 2003 (with c.v.), January 8, 2003


Box 6 Folder 3 Anna Grimshaw's book (with CV and CLR bio outline


Box 6 Folder 4 0021 "C.L.R. James and the American Century: 1938-1953" by Kent Worcester, Columbia University., 0021


Box 6 Folder 5 2661 Anna Grimshaw, Anna Readings, 4/1987, 2661, 4/1987


Box 6 Folder 6 Interns -- Booklist


Box 6 Folder 7 Prospectus I, later, June 2002


Box 6 Folder 8 Book list


Box 6 Folder 9 ESC miscellaneous handouts (mostly song lyrics)


Box 6 Folder 10 Questionnaire MW


Box 6 Folder 11 Benton Luck


Box 6 Folder 12 CC-ESC-Minus


Box 6 Folder 13 First Test of the Thursday Class


Box 6 Folder 14 Questionnaire Tuesday Thursday


Box 6 Folder 15 Storage Deal w/RD


Box 6 Folder 16 Day Sheets: late, 1997


Box 6 Folder 17 Bacon Foto-Copies


Box 6 Folder 18 Visa Form


Box 6 Folder 19 Refile: C.L.R. James letter to Paul; list; Robin Kelly "Identity Politics and Class Struggle":Ralph Dumain "CLR James, Psychoanalysis & Literary Criticism"; C.L.R. James on 'The Negro Question'.


Box 6 Folder 20 Turner, Terisa M.A. thesis (4716)


Box 6 Folder 21 Letter to Anna Grimshaw, 25, February, 1991


Box 6 Folder 22 Miscellaneous: Ads for C.L.R. James and The Struggle for Happiness; Letter to C.L.R. James from Keith Hart, 30 April 1987 annotated pages from G.M. Harrison's M.A. thesis., April 1987



Box 7 Folder 1 Master list of documents by C.L.R. James


Box 7 Folder 2 Master list of documents by C.L.R. James (Obsolete) 8/1994)


Box 7 Folder 3 Master list of documents by C.L.R. James (Obsolete) 8/1994)


Box 7 Folder 4 Reports 5/94 to Lists of Reports, 5/94


Box 7 Folder 5 Refile: Fragments


Box 7 Folder 6 Refile (1/2002)



Box 8 Folder 1 Carol Pamela Murray (CPM) IRS Problem


Box 8 Folder 2 Ralph Dumain Writing


Box 8 Folder 3 Charles Frederick Writing


Box 8 Folder 4 Susanna latest re. apartment


Box 8 Folder 5 Settlement letters re. apartment


Box 8 Folder 6 Inwood Real estate (review)


Box 8 Folder 7 Rhine, Arthur: Archive A (re. law case)


Box 8 Folder 8 Rhine Arthur: Current (re. law case)


Box 8 Folder 9 Correspondence, 2002


Box 8 Folder 10 Richard King Essays, July 2002


Box 8 Folder 12 Teelucksingh, Jerome "Eric Williams and the Labor Movement in Trinidad and Tobago"


Box 8 Folder 13 King, Nicole R. "Merging Mind and Body: C.L.R. James's Minty Alley"


Box 8 Folder 14 Correspondence re. Frank Rosengarten's paper: "Organicism"


Box 8 Folder 15 Rosengarten, Frank "The Concept of Organicism in Selected Writings of C.L.R. James"


Box 8 Folder 16 Correspondence, 2002 -- not urgent, 2002


Box 8 Folder 17 James Estate: Correspondence, 2002


Box 8 Folder 18 Respond-Correspondence, July 2001


Box 8 Folder 19 Institute Correspondence


Box 8 Folder 20 Institute Miscellaneous


Box 8 Folder 21 Institute Correspondence and Fellows, 2000-2001


Box 8 Folder 22 Institute Correspondence -- Miscellaneous


Box 8 Folder 23 Institute Correspondence, November 2000


Box 8 Folder 24 Institute Correspondence, 2001


Box 8 Folder 25 Institute Correspondence -- "Old nothing to do"


Box 8 Folder 26 BBC Work, September 2001


Box 8 Folder 27 Dear Margaret Copies re. Nello (C.L.R. James), 18, December 1990



Box 9 Folder 1 Institute Correspondence (miscellaneous)


Box 9 Folder 2 Institute Correspondence (refile)


Box 9 Folder 3 "The C.L.R. James Papers: A Survey" and Institute Correspondence.


Box 9 Folder 4 Peterson, Rachael "Organized at the source of all power, the place of work: Place, Labor and Race in Facing Reality"


Box 9 Folder 5 Alleyne, Brain "Cultural Complexes: Activism in the Emergent Network Society" a book proposal.


Box 9 Folder 6 Ato Quayson Piece, etc.


Box 9 Folder 7 Agree, Joel "Proposal for Research Fellowship C.L.R. James Institute"


Box 9 Folder 8 Alleyne, Brian correspondence re. book


Box 9 Folder 9 Blint, Richard application for fellowship


Box 9 Folder 10 African Studies, 1999


Box 9 Folder 11 American Studies Association meeting in Seattle, Washington., 1998


Box 9 Folder 12 "C.L.R. James at 100" Tee shirt.



Box 10 Folder 1 Agree, Joel, 1999


Box 10 Folder 2 Invoice, 2000


Box 10 Folder 3 African Studies. University of Cambridge, 1997


Box 10 Folder 4 Alleyne, Brian. Application for The Ling Roth Scholarship, 1997


Box 10 Folder 5 Alleyne, Brian, 1996. Correspondence and notes.


Box 10 Folder 6 Bogues, Tony. Research fellowship, 1999


Box 10 Folder 7 Bogues, Tony. Correspondence, etc., 1999


Box 10 Folder 8 Bogues, Tony. Talk invitation, 1998


Box 10 Folder 9 Amamba Rinear. Correspondence


Box 10 Folder 10 Barton, Priscilla. Will and letter, 1999


Box 10 Folder 11 Bunt, Rich. Project proposal and letter, 1998


Box 10 Folder 12 Booksales, TY95


Box 10 Folder 13 Brown Conference, 2000


Box 10 Folder 14 Blint, Richard re. his study of C.L.R. James


Box 10 Folder 15 Birth Certificate and passport of James Murray.


Box 10 Folder 16 Barton, Priscilla. Will


Box 10 Folder 17 Bogues, Tony


Box 10 Folder 18 Colloquium, 1997


Box 10 Folder 19 CLRJI Correspondence


Box 10 Folder 20 CLRJI Correspondence, 1996


Box 10 Folder 21 CLRJI Poetry


Box 10 Folder 22 CLRJI Correspondence, 1997


Box 10 Folder 23 Dear Mom, January 2000


Box 10 Folder 24 Dawson, Ashley email re. Pan-Africa Report


Box 10 Folder 25 Delle Cave, Justin. Resume


Box 10 Folder 26 Ralph Dumain, Ralph. Emails and "Individual Identity, Historical, Meaning, and the Unknown Autodidact"


Box 10 Folder 27 Dimitriadis, Gregory re. Native Son and James's letter (photocopies)


Box 10 Folder 28 Ralph Dumain, Ralph. Emails and essay


Box 10 Folder 29 Romare Bearden material


Box 10 Folder 30 Ralph Dumain, Jim emails, March1995


Box 10 Folder 31 Farred, Grant correspondence


Box 10 Folder 32 Farred, Grant re. ESPN


Box 10 Folder 33 Farred, Grant correspondence, 1997


Box 10 Folder 34 CLRJI Fellows/Advisors, 1998


Box 10 Folder 35 Miscellaneous Work, email, January 1996



Box 11 Folder 1 Georgakas, Dan


Box 11 Folder 2 Anna Grimshaw, Anna, 1999 The Ethnographer's Eye: The Notebook of a Visual Anthropologist; "Anthropology on Television: The Work of Melissa Llewelyn-Davis", etc., 1999


Box 11 Folder 3 Anna Grimshaw. Birthday


Box 11 Folder 4 Anna Grimshaw, Anna email from Mark Harris


Box 11 Folder 5 Anna Grimshaw, Anna. Curriculum Vitae, etc.


Box 11 Folder 6 Hart, Keith. Correspondence, etc.


Box 11 Folder 7 Harris, Mark


Box 11 Folder 8 Hart, Keith. Correspondence, etc., 12/1996


Box 11 Folder 9 Hart, Keith. Correspondence, 1997


Box 11 Folder 10 Hill, Robert


Box 11 Folder 11 Harris, Mark. Correspondence, etc., 1999


Box 11 Folder 12 Hartford, CT -- Carnival


Box 11 Folder 13 Hill, Bobby "The Archaeology of Black Memory: An Interview with Robert A. Hill"


Box 11 Folder 14 Hillegas, January Correspondence, etc.


Box 11 Folder 15 Hart, Keith. Correspondence., 11/1999


Box 11 Folder 16 Jeffers, Phyllis. Curriculum Vitae


Box 11 Folder 17 Index Lists, 1997-1998.


Box 11 Folder 18 Index! Software Program


Box 11 Folder 19 Interventions Magazine. "The C.L.R. James Institute and Me" by Jim Murray


Box 11 Folder 20 JCEDIT, 2000


Box 11 Folder 21 Motshegwa, Mabitsela H. (INS 3/1999)


Box 11 Folder 22 Jokes


Box 11 Folder 23 JC cat intro


Box 11 Folder 24 Jim Writing, January 1994


Box 11 Folder 25 Jim Writing, miscellaneous, 1991


Box 11 Folder 26 Jim Writing, miscellaneous, 1999


Box 11 Folder 27 Jim Writing


Box 11 Folder 28 Nielsen, Aldon Lynn "C.L.R. James's Prison Testament"


Box 11 Folder 29 King, Nicole, June 1999 gig, June 1999


Box 11 Folder 30 King, Nicole


Box 11 Folder 31 King, Ina


Box 11 Folder 32 Louis-Brown, David


Box 11 Folder 33 Lonsdale, John



Box 12 Folder 1-2 Mindspring, (2 folders)


Box 12 Folder 3 Mills, William, 1999


Box 12 Folder 4 Motshegwa, Moshidi


Box 12 Folder 5 Meehan, Kevin


Box 12 Folder 6 Mills, William


Box 12 Folder 7 Meehan, Kevin gig


Box 12 Folder 8 Marable, Manning Souls


Box 12 Folder 9 McLemee, Scott


Box 12 Folder 10 Mills, William (Writing)


Box 12 Folder 11 King, Nicole


Box 12 Folder 12 Moshidi. Housekeeping flyer


Box 12 Folder 13 Oline, Pamela


Box 12 Folder 14-15 Nielsen, Aldon, 1999, (2 folders)


Box 12 Folder 16 Pentium


Box 12 Folder 17 PCFILE 7


Box 12 Folder 19 Perry, Jeff


Box 12 Folder 20 Polk, James


Box 12 Folder 21 Premnath, Gautan


Box 12 Folder 22 Quayson, Ato


Box 12 Folder 23 Gautam


Box 12 Folder 24 Poetry, early


Box 12 Folder 25 Quayson, Ato, 1999


Box 12 Folder 26 Russell, Aisha


Box 12 Folder 27 Robinson, Gemma


Box 12 Folder 28 Rinear, Amanda


Box 12 Folder 29 '92 Reader-Old Stuff


Box 12 Folder 30-31 Small Axe, (2 folders)


Box 12 Folder 32 Sarah Lawrence


Box 12 Folder 33 St. Louis, Brett


Box 12 Folder 34 Scott, David


Box 12 Folder 35 Saunders, Patricia


Box 12 Folder 36 Said, Edward


Box 12 Folder 37 Scholars


Box 12 Folder 38 St. Louis


Box 12 Folder 39 Stephens, Michelle


Box 12 Folder 40 Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua



Box 13 Folder 1 "Scholars"/Friends


Box 13 Folder 2 Scholars


Box 13 Folder 3 Smorkaloff, Pamela


Box 13 Folder 4 Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua


Box 13 Folder 5 St. Louis, Brett


Box 13 Folder 6 Shoshana (software). Jim's "Letter" and poems.


Box 13 Folder 7 Brett St. Louis


Box 13 Folder 8-10 Taylor, Lee, (3 folders)


Box 13 Folder 11 Video Miscellaneous, December 1998


Box 13 Folder 12 Video, 1999


Box 13 Folder 13 Wade, Peter


Box 13 Folder 14 XTPro Y2K


Box 13 Folder 15 Lyrics


Box 13 Folder 16 Emery, Mary Lou


Box 13 Folder 17 Polonoff, David, September 2000


Box 13 Folder 18 Xtree, September 1999


Box 13 Folder 19 Mills, William Haunting


Box 13 Folder 20 Stationary Master


Box 13 Folder 21 Harris, Mark gig


Box 13 Folder 22 Ralph Dumain, June 1997


Box 13 Folder 23 Ralph Dumain not cat.


Box 13 Folder 24 Ralph Dumain 1995 email, 1995


Box 13 Folder 25 Ralph Dumain 1995 crisis, 1995


Box 13 Folder 26 Ralph Dumain, 1996-97


Box 13 Folder 27 Ralph Dumain, Ralph



Box 14 Folder 1 2605 "Interpretations of Popular Culture: 1960s Meets the 1980s, 2605, 1960s, 1980s


Box 14 Folder 2 2600 Mss. Cudjoe and Buhle, 2600


Box 14 Folder 4 2113 2114 Scott McLemee, 2113, 2114


Box 14 Folder 5 2122 "C.L.R. James's Socialism -- Its Relevance to the Caribbean" by Joseph S.D. Tennyson, 2122


Box 14 Folder 6 2140 "If C.L.R. James Could Attend the Socialist Scholars Conference" by Ralph Dumain, 2140


Box 14 Folder 7 2141 Murray to Blackwells, 2141


Box 14 Folder 8 2147-2148 "Revolutionary Vanguards in the United States During the 1930s" by Paul Le Blanc, 2147-2148


Box 14 Folder 9 2852 Kent Worcester Mss., 2852


Box 14 Folder 10 2856 "Acceptable Men" by Noel Ignatin, 2856


Box 14 Folder 12 2359 "Class, Gender, and English Women's Sport, c. 1890-1914, 2359, 1890-1914


Box 14 Folder 13 2369 "Epistemology, Absolutes and the Party", 2369


Box 14 Folder 14 2370 Book Launch "Tribute to a Scholar", 2370


Box 14 Folder 15 2381 Current List of Publications by C.L.R. James, 2381


Box 14 Folder 16 2785 The C.L.R. James Time Line and Archives, 2785


Box 14 Folder 17 2430 James in the Social Science Citation Index (1981-6/93), 2430


Box 14 Folder 18 2961 C.L.R. James Bibliography, 2961


Box 14 Folder 19 4867 Lee Taylor talk, 4867


Box 14 Folder 20 4838 Lee Taylor "Notes on Preface to Criticism", 4838


Box 14 Folder 21 4837 "Interview with Rosa Guy", 4837


Box 14 Folder 22 4828 OHAL Interviews, Series 1, 4828


Box 14 Folder 23 4779 Ralph Dumain, 4779


Box 14 Folder 24 4777-78: Bogues "Review of Books for C.L.R. James Journal"


Box 14 Folder 25 4776 "C.L.R. James Pan-Africanism and the Black Radical Tradition", 4776


Box 14 Folder 26 4743 "Welcome to Alfie's Page in Memory of Alphonso Theodore Roberts", 4743


Box 14 Folder 27 4742 "Post-Communist Polish Economic Reform" by Jaeryong Rie, 4742


Box 14 Folder 28 4741 The C.L.R. James/Malcolm X Award, 4741


Box 14 Folder 29 4740 "The Dialectics of Cannibalism in Modern Caribbean Narratives" by Eugenio D. Matibag, 4740


Box 14 Folder 30 4691 "Classical Marxism" by Brian W. Alleyne, 4691


Box 14 Folder 31 4681-4683 "C.L.R. James A Tribute", 4681-4683


Box 14 Folder 32 4592 "Double or Nothing: C.L.R. James's Two Balck Jacobins" by Nicole R. King and Obituary for C.L.R. James, 4592


Box 14 Folder 33 3951-52: Richard T. Peterson "Du Bois's Dialectic" and "The Division of Labor"


Box 14 Folder 34 4543 Scott McLemme "Afterthoughts on C.L.R. James Ln the Negro Question", 4543


Box 14 Folder 35 4544 Brian W. Alleyne "C.L.R. James, Humanist", 4544


Box 14 Folder 36 4032 Jim Murray, 9 September 1996, 4032, September 1996



Box 15 Folder 1 4876 Paul A. Bove "Notes Towards a Politics of American Criticism", 4876


Box 15 Folder 2 4895 Stephen Ferguson "C.L.R. Conception of Dialectics", 4895


Box 15 Folder 3 4935 "What's My Name? Muhammad Ali, Postcolonial Pugilist", 4935


Box 15 Folder 4 4954-56: "Negros and Bolshevism"


Box 15 Folder 5 4995 Cameron McCarthy "Mariners, Renegades, and castaways", 4995


Box 15 Folder 6 5008 Nicole R. King "Merging Mind and Body" "Navigating the Black Atlantic" "Structures of Resistance", 5008


Box 15 Folder 7 4896 Bryan Alexander email, 4896


Box 15 Folder 8 5153 Lee Taylor "The Purpose of Playing and the Philosophy of History", 5153


Box 15 Folder 9 5155 "C.L.R. James and the Socio-Poetics of Cricket, 5155


Box 15 Folder 10 5156 Re. cricket, 5156


Box 15 Folder 11 5157 Brian W. Alleyne "C.L.R. James, Theodor Adorno and Mass Culture Criticism", 5157


Box 15 Folder 12 5161 "The Maple Man: How Cricket Made a Postcolonial Intellectual", 5161


Box 15 Folder 13 5163-5165 "Stuart Hall and the Caribbean Diaspora"; "Cricket in a Post-Apartheid South Africa"; "White South Africa and the Politics of Offense", 5163-5165


Box 15 Folder 14 5166 "Bob Marley: The Reggae Artist as Vernacular Intellectual"; "Postcolonial Sufferah"; "Wailin' Soul", 5166


Box 15 Folder 15 5167-5170 Brett St. Louis "Mapping Spontaneity"; Robin Kelley, 5167-5170


Box 15 Folder 16 5171 5172 Brett St. Louis "The Last Dance", 5171, 5172


Box 15 Folder 17 5174 C.L.R. James Institute 1997 Summer Colloquium, 5174, 1997


Box 15 Folder 18 5253-5254 Christopher Phelph "African American Revolutionary Socialists, 1928-1956", 5253-5254


Box 15 Folder 19 5261 Ralph Dumain email, 5261


Box 15 Folder 20 5263 "C.L.R. James and Hannah Arendt" by Richard King, 5263


Box 15 Folder 21 5273-74: Brett St. Louis "C.L.R. James Doubling and Pan-American Black Thought"; Keith Hart "Money in an Unequal World"


Box 15 Folder 22 5277 Stephen C. Ferguson "Dialectics and Freedom", 5277


Box 15 Folder 23 2780 "C.L.R. James on Marxist Theory" Panel 29, Room 415, 2780


Box 15 Folder 24 2787 "From Toussaint to Nkrumah in James's The Black Jacobins", 2787



Box 16 Folder 1 2797 "Race Matters: Black Americans, U.S. Terrain", 2797


Box 16 Folder 2 3841 re. Brecht, May 16, 1989, 3841, May 16, 1989


Box 16 Folder 3 3006 re. Kirk, 3006


Box 16 Folder 4 3026 re. Calypso, Reggae, 3026


Box 16 Folder 5 3029 re. West India and music, 3029


Box 16 Folder 6 3033 LINTONKJ.DOC ("Jim Read"), 3033


Box 16 Folder 7 3039 The Challenge of Third World Culture. A conference at Duke University, September 25-27, 1986, 3039, September 25-27, 1986


Box 16 Folder 8 3150-52: Gender treatment at the 7th Pan African Congress; James P. Cannon Speeches to the Party; Library of Congress ad.


Box 16 Folder 9 2618 "Marxist Changing Hue"; "Victorian with the Rebel Seed", 2618


Box 16 Folder 10 2619 "Post-Colonial Intellectuals", 2619


Box 16 Folder 11 2620 "The Maple Man" by Grant Farrel, 2620


Box 16 Folder 12 2643 "Bobby Hill on Talking History", 2643


Box 16 Folder 13 2648 "A Two Page Fax to Simon Prosser", 2648


Box 16 Folder 14 4066 "C.L.R. and His Circle -- The Canadian Connection", 4066


Box 16 Folder 15 2575 Correspondence and articles, 1990s, 2575, 1990s


Box 16 Folder 16 3011 "The Historical Development of the Negro in the U.S." by C.L.R. James, 3011


Box 16 Folder 17 3156 Interview with Walter Goldwater re NYC bookshops; A,B, and C lists sent to Bill, 3156


Box 16 Folder 18 5170 "Beyond a Boundary" by Brett St Louis, 5170


Box 16 Folder 19 3186 Interview with Martin Glaberman, 3186


Box 16 Folder 20 1264 re. cricket, 1264


Box 16 Folder 21 4059 Donald R. Hill and David Giovannoni "The Herskovits Project", 4059


Box 16 Folder 22 4126-4127 Brett St. Louis "Race and Universal Reason" April 1994 "C.L.R. James : The Balck Jacobins: A Review", 4126-4127, April 1994


Box 16 Folder 23 4129 "Black Radicals,: 1917-1954", 4129


Box 16 Folder 24 4150 A two page fax to Kent Worcester from Jim Murray, 4150



Box 17 Folder 1 4159 "Notes from book talk of Scott McLemme" by R. Ralph Dumain, 4159


Box 17 Folder 2 4163 "C.L.R. James, The Orator's Charisma" by Constance Webb, 4163


Box 17 Folder 3 4348 Greg Harrison "The History and Aesthetics of Jazz", 4348


Box 17 Folder 4 4351 John R. Martin "Race, Class and American Democracy", 4351


Box 17 Folder 5 4353 John Archer "C.L.R. James in Britain: 1932-1938", 4353


Box 17 Folder 6 0019 Paul Buhle "Walking History", 0019


Box 17 Folder 7 0020 Kent Worcester Ms., May 1992, 0020, May 1992


Box 17 Folder 8 0023 Copy of Games pamphlet, 0023


Box 17 Folder 9 0029 Keith Hart "Market and State After the Cold War", 0029


Box 17 Folder 10 0036 Frances Richardson Keller "Black Historians and Balck and White Concepts of the American and French Revolutions", 0036


Box 17 Folder 11 0037 Kim Fellner "In Search of the Movement: 1960s Activists in Labor", 0037, 1960s


Box 17 Folder 12 0039 Rod Thurton 10/89; "Black History Month Draft Program", 0039


Box 17 Folder 13 0040 "The Nationalist Traditions in Trinidad and Tobago", 0040


Box 17 Folder 14 0044 The Realist No. 73, February1967


Box 17 Folder 15 0058 Margaret Glover to Jim Murray, 14 July 1989 with essay, 0058, July 1989


Box 17 Folder 16 0116 The Nation, September 25, 1989 "C.L.R. James Remembered", 0116, September 25, 1989


Box 17 Folder 17 0139 "Talking History" and "Culture and Revolution". Publicity, 0139


Box 17 Folder 18 0141 "Talking History" Press release, 0141


Box 17 Folder 19 0221 Interview by Sturat Hall of C.L.R. James, 0221


Box 17 Folder 20 0235 C.L.R. James on Grenada, 13 March1984, 0235, March1984


Box 17 Folder 21 3154 Brian W. Alleyne -- 2 & 3/95 Drafts of Book., 3154, 3/95


Box 17 Folder 22 3155 Kirk Meighoo article, 3155


Box 17 Folder 23 3191-3193 Bill French 1/95, 3191-3193, 1/95


Box 17 Folder 24 3191-3193 Village Voice Letters, 1995, 3191-3193, 1995


Box 17 Folder 25 3194-3195 The Guardian Features, 1995, 3194-3195, 1995


Box 17 Folder 26 3196-3198 The San Francisco Examiner and Village Voice Articles, 1995, 3196-3198, 1995



Box 18 Folder 1 3199 Reading List: Caribbean Social Structure, 3199


Box 18 Folder 3 3238 Ross "Civilization in One Country? The American James", 3238


Box 18 Folder 4 3239 Kenneth Surin "Going Beyond James's Beyond a Boundary", 3239


Box 18 Folder 5 3240 Neil Larsen "Negativities of the Popular", 3240


Box 18 Folder 6 3241 Fax (2 page) to Santiago Colás from Jim Murray, 3241


Box 18 Folder 6 3241 "Silence and Dialectics: Speculation on C.L.R. James and Latin America" by Santiago Colás, 3241


Box 18 Folder 7 3242 Robin D.G. Kelley "The World the Diaspora Made", 3242


Box 18 Folder 8 3243 Robin D.G. Kelley Mss., with Murray's comments, 3243


Box 18 Folder 9 3261-3263 "Gangsta Rap" and Paul Gilroy, 3261-3263


Box 18 Folder 10 3265 Re. Rober Lalljie and Roger Moore "C.L.R. James Life Achievement", 3265


Box 18 Folder 11 3268 "The Scholarship Boy: The Mapping of Race through Culture", 3268


Box 18 Folder 12 3269 Grant Farred "The Politics of Over-representation", 3269


Box 18 Folder 13 3270 David M. letter, 3270


Box 18 Folder 14 3277 "Alternative Press Index" search 17 August 1994, 3277, August 1994


Box 18 Folder 15 3431 Scott McLemee "C.L.R. James on the Negro Question", 3431


Box 18 Folder 16 3432 John R. Martin " American Class and Race Relations" Ph. D. dissertation, 3432


Box 18 Folder 17 3439 Robin D.G. Kelley "Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class", 3439


Box 18 Folder 18 2705 Portraits of C.L.R. James (photos), 2705


Box 18 Folder 19 Keith Hart lecture Hagel, 3 November 1987 (with letter by Hart, 3/2/93), November 1987


Box 18 Folder 20 Correspondence Paul Buhle and Jim Murray


Box 18 Folder 21 Correspondence photocopies Buhle-Murray



Box 19 Folder 1 Miscellaneous C.L.R. James's letters editing: Constance Webb; C.L.R. James; Jim Murray


Box 19 Folder 2 1021-1022 Letter, with photograph, from Donna to Jim; ; IThe Haunting by W.L. Mills; ; C.L.R. James -- Man of the People; C.L.R. James "Rising Voices of Women with a World to Gain", March24, 1989, 1021-1022, March24, 1989


Box 19 Folder 3 0682 Ntozake Shange, 0682


Box 19 Folder 4 2720 "The Struggle for the Struggle" (Robert Hill, Alastair Niven, Keith Hart, etc letters), with list of documents relating to the struggle for SFH, 2720


Box 19 Folder 5 SFH/Reader 91 Memo. of Agreement, letters (Hill, etc.)


Box 19 Folder 6 Andrew Best of Curtis Brown correspondence


Box 19 Folder 7 Estate 1990. Correspondence


Box 19 Folder 8 Estate 1989 and before. Correspondence (Keith Hart, etc.), 1989


Box 19 Folder 9 Mills, William: Chapbook Master


Box 19 Folder 10 Proposal -- Bibliography #2, 8/97


Box 19 Folder 12 2719 Estate matters "J Institute copies" Correspondence, Reports, Documents, etc., 2719


C.L.R. James Letters (copies):



Box 20 Folder 1 1932


Box 20 Folder 2 1933


Box 20 Folder 3 1936


Box 20 Folder 4 1937


Box 20 Folder 5 1938


Box 20 Folder 6 1939


Box 20 Folder 7 1940


Box 20 Folder 8 1947


Box 20 Folder 9 1948


Box 20 Folder 10 1949


Box 20 Folder 11 1951


Box 20 Folder 12 1952


Box 20 Folder 13 1953


Box 20 Folder 14 1954


Box 20 Folder 15 1955


Box 20 Folder 16 1956


Box 20 Folder 17 1957


Box 20 Folder 18 1958


Box 20 Folder 19 1959


Box 20 Folder 20 1960


Box 20 Folder 21 1961


Box 20 Folder 22 1962


Box 20 Folder 23 1963


Box 20 Folder 24 1964


Box 20 Folder 25 1965


Box 20 Folder 26 1966


Box 20 Folder 27 1967



Box 21 Folder 1 PC File January 1991 work -- Lists -- all J. etc., January 1991


Box 21 Folder 2 Hart, J. Keith Not CLRJI. Poems


Box 21 Folder 3 Howard Saunders Writing, 1/97


Box 21 Folder 4 Dowd Book -- MR Press, January 1997


Box 21 Folder 5 Glover, Margaret, 6/88


Box 21 Folder 6 "Jim's Letters", 1980-86


Box 21 Folder 7 New Orleans, 11/96


Box 21 Folder 8 Robert F. King, 8/97


Box 21 Folder 9 Jim's "This is My Life" Child's crayon art.


Box 21 Folder 10 CRLJI Correspondence culled, 2/2002


Box 21 Folder 11 2577-80 Radical America, edited by Paul Buhle, Volume 16, No. 3


Box 21 Folder 12 "This package came June 2002 from Constance -- sent to her by Peter Lang" includes Martin Glaberman letter; "Ethics Politics and Economics"; "Unions' Abilities and Labor's Needs"; Alan Wald letter; C.L.R. James's NYT obituary; Lessons of the Grenada Revolution; Black Workers and the Labor Movement by Martin Glaberman, June 2002


Box 21 Folder 13 0209 "C.L.R. James Says: Polish Solidarity if the Way for America" by Paul Buhle, 0209


Box 21 Folder 15 4128 Letters: Brett St. Louis, 1995-96, 4128


Box 21 Folder 16 1991 Letters, 1991


Box 21 Folder 19 1992 Letters, 1992


Box 21 Folder 18 1993 Letters, 1993


Box 21 Folder 19 1995 Letters, 1995



Box 22 Folder 1 Frank Rosengarten "The Literary Praxis of C.L.R. James"; "Hegel and Haiti by Susan Buck-Morss; "The Bodies of Black Folk: From Kant to Hegel" by David Krell


Box 22 Folder 2 October 1996 Ralph Dumain "2BCAT", October 1996


Box 22 Folder 3 Edgar Rivera Colon essay; "Cricket Outta Compton" by Edward Smith "2BCAT"


Box 22 Folder 4 Miscellaneous Ralph Dumain commentaries


Box 22 Folder 5 Docs. Acquired & cataloged(?): References and Memos.


Box 22 Folder 6 Ralph Dumain


Box 22 Folder 7 On document acquisitions -- incomplete?


Box 22 Folder 8 St. Louis, Brett: Chap. 1 "These are Brett's writings for my eyes only"


Box 22 Folder 9 Neil Roberts. Letter, resume, etc.


Box 22 Folder 10 Douglass from Celeste-Marie Bernier, January 17, 2001


Box 22 Folder 11 2BCAT-R.D. Eliot-Jim, 1/2000 "The Rhetoric of Otherness in Richard Wright" essay; "Class and Culture: C.L.R. James on Nkrumah's Ghana", 1/2000


Box 22 Folder 12 Anna Grimshaw outtakes-"Top Jamaican Poets in Britain"


Box 22 Folder 13 Miscellaneous, unsorted, correspondence re. C.L.R. James Institute


Box 22 Folder 14 Miscellaneous pamphlets, brochures, ads, etc.



Box 23 Folder 1 2624 David Mauk and John Oakland "American Civilization: An Introduction" (This edition was copy edited by 2 people at Blackwells. Virtually all changes are in this edition."), 2624


Box 23 Folder 2 Red cover notebook: "AMCIV ONLY, 11/92". Mss. Notes.


Box 23 Folder 3 Nicole Roberta King "C.L.R. James and Formulations of Caribbean Cultural Identity" 1994. A dissertation in English.



Box 24 Folder 1 "Tarig Ali's Redemption"; "On Paul Buhle's Pack of Lies about C.L.R. James"; "Review for Third Text"


Box 24 Folder 2 "C.L.R. James Revolutionary Optimist"; Review of Kent Worcester C.L.R. James: A Political Biography


Box 24 Folder 3 Review of C.L.R. James's Caribbean; Review essay by Kent Worcester


Box 24 Folder 4 Review of Mariners, Renegades and Castaways by C.L.R. James; Review of Culture as History


Box 24 Folder 5 Essay by Kent Worcester "C.L.R. James in America"; Reviews of American Civilization by C.L. R. James


Box 24 Folder 6 2674-84: Ralph Dumain: Unpublished articles on James


Box 24 Folder 7 2667 Ralph Dumain: Bibliographic Lists, 2667


Box 24 Folder 8 2667 Ralph Dumain letters to Jim Murray, 1989-1994, 2667, 1989-1994


Box 24 Folder 9 2666 Ralph Dumain letters to others, 1993, 2666, 1993


Box 24 Folder 10 Ralph Dumain letters and essays


Box 24 Folder 11 2646 Hill/Murray Letters, 1983-1985, 2646, 1983-1985


Box 24 Folder 12 Miscellaneous letters, 1993-94


Box 24 Folder 13 2180 NAACP Affairs, 2180


Box 24 Folder 14 Estate matters


Box 24 Folder 15 C.L.R. James letter to Dibb, 26, June 1983


Box 24 Folder 16 2653 Anna Grimshaw letters to Jim Murray, 1983-1993, 2653, 1983-1993


Box 24 Folder 17 Pamphlets-UK-Reactions, etc.


Box 24 Folder 18 James, C.L.R. to Bobbie Hill


Box 24 Folder 19 Miscellaneous letters and essays (Anna Grimshaw, Paul, Alan Warhaftig, Selwyn Cudjoe, Keith Hart)


Box 24 Folder 20 C.L.R. James letters to Paul Buhle, 1983


Box 24 Folder 21 Constance Webb letters to Anna Grimshaw, 1988-1990


Box 24 Folder 22 2707 Miscellaneous letters: Simon Prosser, Jim Murray, Kent Worcester, 2707



Box 25 Folder 1 CLRJI Correspondence, 1999-2000


Box 25 Folder 2 2708 My Business-Legal, 2708


Box 25 Folder 3 2711 List of names; correspondence, 2711


Box 25 Folder 4 2709 Flyers -- CLRJI -- All, 2709


Box 25 Folder 5 CLRJI Miscellaneous, 1991-1994


Box 25 Folder 6 G. M. Harrison "The Dialectics and Aesthetics of Freedom: Hegel, Slavery and African American Music", 1999 Ph.D. dissertation University of Sydney, 1999


Box 25 Folder 7 3428-3430 Against the Current 60, January /February1966, 3428-3430


Box 25 Folder 8 CLRJI Miscellaneous: Guidelines for Researchers; Query re. art 2/28/03; Notepad "Aggregates"; Pamphlet: C.L.R. James His Intellectual Legacies; Communist Manifesto, with Introduction by Stefan T. Possony; Pamphlet Fifth National Black Writers Conference March30-April 2000 Emmy Award photographs; "Race Matters: Black Americans, U.S. terrain"; "Introduction to C.L.R. James and the Organic Principle"; "Robert Dombroski's Critical Engagement with Marxism, March30-April 2000



Box 26 Folder 1 Special Delivery . Film script based on the letters of C.L.R. James to Constance Webb


Box 26 Folder 2 Special Delivery . Old -- Dibb


Box 26 Folder 3 Mike Dibb-Anna Grimshaw letters


Box 26 Folder 4 2636 Reader -- drafts of my faves & biblio., 2636


Box 26 Folder 5 2635 Reader with edits ("see notes on cover"), 2635


Box 26 Folder 6 2718 Pamphlet #4 covers & edit., 2718


Box 26 Folder 7 3202 C.L.R. James: His Intellectual Legacies Edited by Selwyn R. Cudjoe and William E. Cain. Uncorrected Page proofs



Box 27 Folder 1 2706 CLRJI Correspondence -- me and others, 1986-1993, 2706, 1986-1993


Box 27 Folder 2 4484 Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua "C.L.R. James and the Making of a Neo-Marxist Pan African Historiography", 4484


Box 27 Folder 3 4091-93: "Ford's Ideals, 1919-1921/Having a Riot Santiago Colas, 1994-1995"


Box 27 Folder 4 4098 Aldon Lynn Nielsen "C.L.R. James: A Critical Introduction" Uncorrected draft., 4098


Box 27 Folder 5 Allison & Busby. New Books Spring, 1984



Box 28 Folder 8 Charles Frederick Community Performance, 8/90


Box 28 Folder 11 Adams & Goldbard, 1990


Special Delivery: The Letters of C.L.R. James to Constance Webb, 1939-1948:



Box 29 Folder 1 Proof 2 of Pt. 1 & 2A


Box 29 Folder 2 Part I


Box 29 Folder 3 Part IIA


Box 29 Folder 4 Part IIB


Box 29 Folder 5 Part IIC


Box 29 Folder 6 Part III


Box 29 Folder 7 Part IV


Box 29 Folder 8 "My copy of CL Introduction--annotated by me"


Box 29 Folder 9 Constance P/O: of lists and proposal


Box 29 Folder 10 Anna cons.


Box 29 Folder 11 Schomburg Summer 94 -- Grant's works; AG/JM


Box 29 Folder 12 Part I --Anna markings


Box 29 Folder 13 Part Two (a)


Box 29 Folder 14 Part Two (b)


Box 29 Folder 15 Part Two & copy


Box 29 Folder 16 Part Three


Box 29 Folder 17 Part Four



Box 30 Folder 1 2627 Hill, Robert on American Civilization, 2627


Box 30 Folder 2 2629 American Civilization appendix by Bobby Hill, 2629


Box 30 Folder 3 Hill Afterword, read by Kent Worcester, spring 93


Box 30 Folder 4 2632 Andrew, 6/93 draft (folder is empty), 2632, 6/93


Box 30 Folder 5 2630 American Civilization correspondence, 2630


Box 30 Folder 6 2634 American Civilization Master, 2634


Box 30 Folder 7 2625 American Civilization Miscellaneous 8/93, 2625, 8/93



Box 31 Folder 1 "What's My Name?: Organic and Vernacular Intellectuals" Ph.D. dissertation Princeton University


Box 31 Folder 2-3 Neil Larsen "Negativities of the Popular: C.L.R. James and the Limits of Cultural Studies"


Box 31 Folder 4 Grant Farred Book, late July


Box 31 Folder 5 Grant Farred Miscellaneous, 2/03


Box 31 Folder 6 Andrew Ross's papers "Civilization in One Country? The American James"


Box 31 Folder 7 Grant Farred Book



Box 32 Folder 2 ACD material


Box 32 Folder 5 Alice Walker 2 floppy disks


Box 32 Folder 6 Emily Colás


Box 32 Folder 7 Accident -- February8, 1996 (cab), February8, 1996


Box 32 Folder 8 Jim's Letter #3


Box 32 Folder 9 Jim's Letter #2


Box 32 Folder 10 Jim's Letter #4 & #5


Box 32 Folder 11 Jim's Letter #6 Master Copies


Box 32 Folder 12 Jim's Letter #7


Box 32 Folder 13 Jim's Letter #9


Box 32 Folder 14 Jim's Letter #10


Box 32 Folder 15 Letters to Jim, 1986


Box 32 Folder 16 DAD-Old


Box 32 Folder 17 Deborah McCone & Jim, 1984 & a986, 1984


Box 32 Folder 18 Bike Messengering in Manhattan. Josh Whalen talking to Jim Murray


Box 32 Folder 19 PADD 5/3/81 List. Eastchester High School reunion, 1986, 5/3/81, 1986



Box 33 Folder 3 "Anything I Want" Notes ("10/90 "done with this file at last--put it in archive box").


Box 33 Folder 4 Family, Book,…All Miscellaneous 3/1988 ("This file is done for book September 19, 1990"), 3/1988


Box 33 Folder 5 Special Pubs by Jim


Box 33 Folder 6 The Book & Task Charts, 11/1989 ("This is, in effect, a process file--read it fast"), 11/1989


Box 33 Folder 7 How I Started--ACD work


Box 33 Folder 8 Seth original artwork, 1990


Box 33 Folder 9 Kramer vs. Kramer Film


Box 33 Folder 10 Writing-Jim-Miscellaneous research


Box 33 Folder 11 Bike Messengering in Manhattan -- Josh Whalen talking to Jim Murray


Box 33 Folder 13 Roots


Box 33 Folder 14 Wall transcript


Box 33 Folder 15 Sachs, Steve -- Artwork


Box 33 Folder 16 Turnpike Strip, 6/90


Box 33 Folder 17 Movement


Box 33 Folder 18 Radical Humor Festival



Box 34 Folder 1-2 Miscellaneous postcards, photographs, etc., (2 folders)


Box 34 Folder 4 Charles-Book, January 1992


Box 34 Folder 5 Frederick, Charles -- Poem for Steve


Box 34 Folder 11 JC List, 10/91


Box 34 Folder 12 Ann Marie Rousseau


Box 34 Folder 13 On Time magazine (photocopy)


Box 34 Folder 14 Computer


Box 34 Folder 15 Ken Waltzer letters


Box 34 Folder 16 Charles's "Lucy" Paper