Robert Bone papers, 1975-2009

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Series I. Robert Bone Papers



Box 1 Lost Renaissance, 2009 Draft, 2009


Box 1 Lost Renaissance, 2005 Draft, 2005


Box 1 Redfield and Wirth


Box 1 12 MVB: SLAG


Box 1 Sorbonne Paper: Full-Sized and Down-Sized


Box 1 American N. Expo


Box 1 Motley: Research Materials, Notes, Outlines, Etc.


Box 1 Working File


Box 1 Bontemps, SLAG


Box 1 Vivian Harsh Collection: Research Materials (May 4-5, 1988)


Box 1 Chicago Conference: Programs, Correspondence, Finances, Etc.


Box 1 Drafts of His Book


Box 1 SLAG


Box 1 Richard, Visual Arts Material


Box 1 Wright and CP


Box 1 Richard Wright's Phototext: 12 Million Black Voices


Box 1 Documentary Made of CR


Box 1 Intro: Quebec


Box 1 Structure and Possible Introduction (Salzman)


Box 1 Transition Version: Master Copy


Box 1 Madison Lecture


Box 1 Atlanta 1997 Opening Speech, Master Copy, 1997


Box 1 135th and Lenox: Callaloo Version


Box 1 Assorted Papers


Box 1 Assorted Papers



Box 2 Correspondence, Clippings, Literary Journals


Box 2 Curriculum Vitae


Box 2 Essay: Growing Up in the New Negro Renaissance


Box 2 Chapter VIII: The Chicago Renaissance, First Draft\


Box 2 Class Notes: The Teaching of Poetry


Box 2 Shakespeare Lecture File


Box 2 Poetry Teaching Notes


Box 2 Essays and Reviews by R.A. Bone


Box 2 New York Times Book Review


Box 2 Collier's Encyclopedia 1978 ed: Entries on Baldwin, Brooks, Hayden, Tolson, Toome, 1978


Box 2 Interview, Letters


Box 2 "Selling the Watermelon:" Clippings, Articles, Correspondence


Box 2 Correspondence: Mrs. Marjorie Content Toomer, Mrs. Fanny McConnell Ellison, Ann Petry, Skip Gates, Anne Boutempes, etc. Wright Canon Carla Capetti/Richard Wright Wright: Miscellaneous Materials Chapter 5, Richard Wright: A Case Study Chapter 7, Richard Wright Text: Chapter 2, 7-9 (Chapters that Feature Park, Charles Johnson and Harlem Renaissance, Fisk)South to a Very Old Place


Box 2 The Omni-Americans


Box 2 Ellison and Murray


Box 2 Hayden Notes


Box 2 Fanny Ellison


Box 2 Hayden Manuscripts


Box 2 Ralph Ellison


Box 2 Richard Wright


Box 2 FWP, Alsberg, etc.


Box 2 Chapter 2: Music and Dance


Box 2 The Chicago Renaissance


Box 2 Chapter 2, Section 3: Jazz (Hines), Intro: Armstrong and Hines


Box 2 Revisions


Box 2 Fail Safe, March2000 White Pages Chapter 1, March2000


Box 2 Review of SVOP


Box 2 Tolson Materials


Box 2 Tolson Essay


Box 2 For Chapter 7 on Richard Wright: Research Materials, Parn and Simmel


Box 2 Richard Wright


Box 2 Wright Chatper: 1st Draft


Box 2 R. Wright, Sociological Image


Box 2 Wright and Chicago Renaissance Conferences


Box 2 Richard Wright and the Chicago Renaissance, Printer's Copy


Box 2 General


Box 2 General


Box 2 Books: Their Eyes Were Watching God, White Man, Listen!, Report From Part One, The Conjure Woman, Selected Poems, Origin of the Afro-American Short Story, Cane, Harlem Gallery, Tri-Quarterly, Selected Poems, South to a Very Old Place, The Negro Novel in America



Box 3 Chesnutt Reader


Box 3 Chapter 5, Section 1: Early Version, Master Copy


Box 3 Park in Chicago


Box 3 Park's Essays (Also WM. Jamzs), Related Commentary


Box 3 Alexander Jackson, George Cleveland Hall


Box 3 Chapter 5, Section 4


Box 3 CSJ: The Harlem Renaissance, Chapter 4, Section 2


Box 3 Alain Locke


Box 3 Working File: Revision, CSF and HR


Box 3 Chapter 4--Over and Done With


Box 3 L.M. Collins: The HR Generation


Box 3 Chicago Urban: Extended History Personnel, etc.


Box 3 Chapter 4


Box 3 Suggestions for Revision


Box 3 Christoferson Suggestion


Box 3 Introduction After Bill Christoferson's Suggestion


Box 3 GCH: Library (For Chapter 5)


Box 3 Essay on Literary Modernism, Bibliography, Notes


Box 3 Carnegie Corps


Box 3 Rockefeller Archives, New Haven Center


Box 3 Edwin Embrec and Paul Kellogg


Box 3 Working Folder


Box 3 CSJ at Fisk


Box 3 Will Alexander


Box 3 Programs & Personnel (Personality)


Box 3 Fellowship Programs (Last Unit in Troika Sections)


Box 3 Paris Conference Feb 5-9, 1992


Box 3 Charles White and Elizabeth Cathett


Box 3 Gordon Parks


Box 3 Miscellaneous


Box 3 Horace Cayton, Info About


Box 3 Gordon Parks Early Work


Box 3 Michael Harper Interview


Box 3 Songlines: Photocopies


Box 3 Michael Harper Documents


Box 3 Songlines: Master Copy


Box 3 Harper: Songlines Notes


Box 3 Work-In-Progress (Parles)


Box 3 Michael Harper Notes


Box 3 Margaret Walker


Box 3 Fenton Johnson: 42 WPA Poems


Box 3 Motley: Prints, Photos, Essays


Box 3 Horace Cayton: Profile


Box 3 Research Materials: Visual Arts


Box 3 Illinois Writers Project


Box 3 Chapter 3, The Verbal Arts


Box 3 Cherokee


Box 3 Chapter 4, Verbal Arts: Miscellaneous SLAG


Box 3 The Written Word


Box 3 Chapter 4: Full Page Copy (Master Copy) Latest Version, 1/2003


Box 3 Vivian Harsh Collection, June 25-26, 1998


Box 3 Origins of the Chicago Renaissance, Intro, Working Copy


Box 3 Work in Progress


Box 3 Charles Sebree


Box 3 Chapter 10: Epilogue (Rough Draft)


Box 3 Photocopies: Callaloo


Box 3 From Helen Hughes


Frank Marshall Davis