Notebook 8, holograph, signedJohnson, James Weldon, 1871-19381899-1904engspafreContains drafts and final versions of poems (some later published in Fifty Years and Other Poems). Poems included are: "Since You Went Away"; "The Color Sergeant"; "Dat Gal O'Mine"; "Tunk"; "The Rivals"; "Answer to Prayer"; "National Hymn" [Lift Every Voice]; "The Black Mammy"; "When First We Met"; "You'se Sweet to Yo' Mammy Jes de Same"; "The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face"; "Two Sonnets to Horace Bumstead"; "Sonnet Before a Painting"; "Louisiana Lize."