Call Number: JWJ MSS MISC / Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized

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Creator:: Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
Published / Created:: 1970 November 19
Call Number:: JWJ MSS MISC
Container / Volume:: Box 1, folder GROUP 4, F-12
Image Count:: 7
Description:: Draft, typescript, corrected, of essay. Differs from version published in The New York Review of Books (January 7, 1971 issue). Signed "Brother James".
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > James Weldon Johnson Collection manuscript miscellany (JWJ MSS MISC) > B > BALDWIN, JAMES, 1924-1987 > "An Open Letter to My Sister, Angela Y. Davis"

Creator:: Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
Published / Created:: undated
Call Number:: JWJ MSS MISC
Container / Volume:: Box 1, folder GROUP 4, F-3
Image Count:: 3
Description:: Manuscript, typed and signed, discussing a book project.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > James Weldon Johnson Collection manuscript miscellany (JWJ MSS MISC) > B > BALDWIN, JAMES, 1924-1987 > "Notes for Project : Letter to My Younger Brother"

Published / Created:: 1940 February 11
Call Number:: JWJ MSS MISC
Container / Volume:: Box 3, folder GROUP 44, F-1
Image Count:: 12
Description:: One ALS, with envelope, sent to Marshall Best in which Grace Nail Johnson proposes turning the garage of Five Acres, the Johnsons' home, into a memorial for James Weldon Johnson. The letter is accompanied by three photographs of the property and a no...
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > James Weldon Johnson Collection manuscript miscellany (JWJ MSS MISC) > J > JOHNSON, GRACE NAIL, (1885-1976) > Letter : Great Barrington, Mass., to Marshall Best

Creator:: Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
Published / Created:: 1953 May 31 and 1954 February 11
Call Number:: JWJ MSS MISC
Container / Volume:: Box 1, folder GROUP 4, F-5
Image Count:: 8
Description:: One TLS in which Baldwin announces his intention to finish "Letter for My Younger Brother," describes his thoughts on newly begun novel ("Giovanni's Room"), and requests a loan of twenty dollars. The letter includes a clipping of an article on James B...
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > James Weldon Johnson Collection manuscript miscellany (JWJ MSS MISC) > B > BALDWIN, JAMES, 1924-1987 > Letter : to Sam[uel L. Blumenfeld]

Creator:: Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
Published / Created:: 1954 January 11
Call Number:: JWJ MSS MISC
Container / Volume:: Box 1, folder GROUP 4, F-7
Image Count:: 3
Description:: One TLS to Samuel L. Blumenfeld, written in Cannes, discussing various writing projects, including Baldwin's new work on a "primer" based on correspondence with his younger brother, completion of "The Amen Corner," and work towards his second novel, G...
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > James Weldon Johnson Collection manuscript miscellany (JWJ MSS MISC) > B > BALDWIN, JAMES, 1924-1987 > Letter : to Sam[uel L. Blumenfeld]

Creator:: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
Published / Created:: [1926 February?]
Call Number:: JWJ MSS MISC
Container / Volume:: Box 2, folder GROUP 21, F-5
Image Count:: 2
Description:: Autograph letter, signed, possibly to Harry Block, an editor at Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. The letter discusses public events, including readings, and critical response to an unidentified book, most likely The Weary Blues (New York: Knopf, 1926). The lette...
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > James Weldon Johnson Collection manuscript miscellany (JWJ MSS MISC) > H > HUGHES, LANGSTON, 1902-1967 > Letter : to [Harry] Block

Published / Created:: 1925 1926
Call Number:: JWJ MSS MISC
Container / Volume:: Box 1, folder GROUP 3, F-4
Image Count:: 8
Description:: Two ALS to Harold Guinzburg, one TLS and 1 TL from Harold Guinzburg. One TL to from Guinzburg, dated Aug. 13, 1925, concerning Johnson's contribution to "The Subway Sun," an ad campaign sponsored by the New York subway system, with two ALS, dated Aug...
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > James Weldon Johnson Collection manuscript miscellany (JWJ MSS MISC) > J > JOHNSON, JAMES WELDON, 1871-1938 > Letters : between James Weldon Johnson and Harold Guinzburg

Creator:: Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
Published / Created:: 1985 1986
Call Number:: JWJ MSS MISC
Container / Volume:: Box 1, folder GROUP 4, F-11
Image Count:: 23
Description:: Correspondence, with accompanying envelopes, includes three autograph letters, signed, two autograph notes, signed, and one page with notes and sketches. Letters discuss writing, books, travel, and other engagements.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > James Weldon Johnson Collection manuscript miscellany (JWJ MSS MISC) > B > BALDWIN, JAMES, 1924-1987 > Letters : to Shawn Henderson, 1977 Park Blvd., Camden, New Jersey 08103

Creator:: Röhnert, Ursula
Published / Created:: 1967 July 1
Call Number:: JWJ MSS MISC
Container / Volume:: Box 5, folder GROUP 69, F-1
Image Count:: 2
Description:: Gelatin silver black and white photographic print, by Berlin photographer Ursula Röhnert, of American singer, songwriter, and musician Nina Simone performing on stage at the 1967 Newport Jazz Festival. Simone is shown mid-performance holding a microph...
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > James Weldon Johnson Collection manuscript miscellany (JWJ MSS MISC) > S > SIMONE, NINA, 1933-2003 > Photograph of Nina Simone performing at the Newport Jazz Festival