Darcus Howe papers, 1965-2008

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Series V: Personal, circa 1961-2000, undated

Series V is a small group of material containing Darcus Howe's personal and family correspondence, photographs, address book, and a 1988 daily agenda. It also includes programs from funerals and memorial services of Howe's friends and family members and material related to the death of Howe's father, Cipriani Nathaniel Howe.



Box 11 Folder 5 Family photographs, circa 1970s-1990s


Box 11 Folder 6 Personal and family correspondence, 1977-1995, undated


Box 11 Folder 7 Funeral and memorial service programs, 1983-1997



Box 12 Item 112 Frank Kermode, "Justice and Power in King Lear", 1985, 1 audiocassettes; Side 2

BBC Open University program A361



Box 11 Folder 8 Daily agenda, 1988


Box 11 Folder 9 Personal and family documents, 1988-1999, undated


Box 11 Folder 10 Death of Cipriani Nathaniel Howe, 1991-1993

Father of Darcus Howe.


Box 11 Folder 11 Address books, undated



Box 14 Item 195 Martin Luther King Face to Face , circa 1961, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

BBC Production.



Box 12 Item 84 Origins Within the Soul, Hermann Hess and Carl G. Jung; Preface of Shakespeare's Coriolanus, 1984 April 15, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 112 BBC Radio 4 Kaleidoscope: interview with Saul Bellow, 1989 March 3, 1 audiocassettes; Side 2


Box 12 Item 57 Teddy Alexander, Jimmy Richards, 1989 April, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 101 [untitled], 1990 June 27, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 72 Darcus Howe, 1990 December 9, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 103 Darcus talking: Amiri, Trinidad and Tobago, Journalism, 1991 July 10, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 90 Darcus Talking: C. L. R., Trinidad and Tobago, Abu Bakr, 1991 August 5, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 38 The Guide promotional CD, circa 1996, 1 compact disks


Box 12 Item 47 NSYNC, I Want You Back, 1996, 1 audiocassettes

Commercial recording.


Box 12 Item 97 Precious, It's Gonna Be My Way, 2000, 1 audiocassettes

Commercial recording.


Box 12 Item 4 South[ern] American writers (Faulkner, etc.) "Garrulous Ghosts", undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 39 Bob Marley and the Wailers "Survival" and "Uprising", undated, 1 audiocassettes

Commercial recording.


Box 12 Item 45 Careless Hands, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Commercial recording.


Box 12 Item 74 Peter Tosh, Can't Blame the Youth, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Commercial recording. Comp. Peter Tosh, Intel-Diplo H. I. M. label.


Box 12 Item 80 Gone in the Air, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Program on Eric Dolphy, taped from radio.


Box 12 Item 91A Recording of a BBC program on the poet William Hazlitt, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 91B Howe interview on his experiences working with the BBC


Box 12 Item 109 Eric Dolphy (1 of 4), undated, 1 audiocassettes



Box 15 Item 222 I want it back, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Little bit of out on Tuesday. Ping pong.


Box 15 Item 225 "In the Sky's Wild Noise", undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)



Box 12 Item 111, 114, 116-117 Unlabeled, unidentified audiocassette, undated, 4 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 112 Interview with violinist Kyung-Wha Chung, undated, 1 audiocassettes; Side 1


Box 12 Item 112 Program on Olivier Messiaen's "Catalogue d'oiseaux", undated, 1 audiocassettes; Side 2


Box 12 Item 123 Unidentified recording of a small child talking, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 128 Songs by David Rudder, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 138 BBC radio discussion "Will the Symphony Survive?" and a Bob Marley song, undated, 1 audiocassettes