Margaret Walker Alexander Personal Papers [AF012]
Series
I: Correspondence, 1940’s-1998, n.d.;
377 folders (4.5 linear feet)
Personal , 1940’s-1998, n.d.; 240 folders
Persons and Organizations; 211 folders
Box 1 A – E; 51 folders
Box 2 F – J; 46 folders
Box 3 K – Sil; 75 folders
Box 4 Sim – Y; 39 folders
Topical, 1963-1967, 1970-1974, 1976, 1978-1981, 1983-1987, 1989-1998, n.d.; 29 folders
Annual Christmas Letters, 1986, 1987, 1989; 3 items
Condolences (Passing of husband, Alex), 1980; 29 items
Envelopes with Writing, n.d.; 3 items
Box 5 Ephemera, 1963-1967, 1972, 1976, 1978, 1979-1981, 1983-1986, 1989-1998, n.d.; 231 items
Address Lists, 1983, n.d.; 11 items
Christmas Cards, 1992, n.d.; 23 items
Empty Envelopes, 1966, 1967, 1978; 46 items
Greeting Cards, 1976, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, n.d.; 24 items
Invitation Cards, 1963-1965, 1972, 1979, 1980-1981, 1984-1986, 1989, 1990-1998, n.d.; 110 items
Thank you Cards, 1966, 1992, 1994, n.d.; 17 items
Letter Fragments, 1966, 1967, 1976, 1983, 1989, n.d.; 16 items
Letters from Inmates, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1976; 5 items
MWANRC Formation, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1996; 29 items
Phillis Wheatley Festival, 1973; 3 items
Unidentified Personal Correspondence, n.d.; 9 items
Writing and Publishing, 1942-1998, n.d.; 80 folders
Persons and Organizations; 48 folders
Box 6 A – H; 30 folders
Box 7 J – Z; 18 fodlers
Topical, 1966-1973, 1975-1998, n.d.; 32 folders
Jubilee Fan Mail, 1966-1973, 1975-1978, 1980-1982, 1985, 1988-1989, 1992, n.d.; 159 items
Box 8 Permissions, 1967-1994; 224 items
Box 9 Permissions, 1995-1998, n.d.; 76 items
General Correspondence, 1942-1943, 1945, 1963-1998, n.d.; 57 folders
1942-1945, 1963-1984
Box 10 1985-1991
Box 11 1992-1998, n.d.
Series II:
Journal and Diary Material, 1930-1998; 135 items; 7 linear feet
Box
2 1936; 1 item [Restricted]
Box
7 1952 – 1953; 1 item [Restricted]
Box 8 1953–1954; 6 items
Box 9 1955–1959 ; 7 items
Box 10 1960–1962; 7 items
Box 11 1962–1963; 5 items
Box 12 1963-1965; 6 items
Box 13 1965–1967; 6 items
Box 14 1967–1971; 4 items
Box 15 1970–1971; 4 items
Box 16 1971–1975; 5 items
Box 19 1977-1979; 3 items
Box 28 Miscellaneous pages, 1941, 1970, 1985, n.d.; 36 pages
Series III: Creative Works, 1929-1934, 1936-1940, 1942, 1965-1966, 1969, 1970-1974, 1976, 1979, 1981-1986, 1988-1989, 1992-1993, 1995-1996 and n.d. (11.6 linear feet)
Sub-Series
III.A: Poetry, 1929-1934, 1936-1940, 1942, 1966, 1969, 1973,
1986, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1996 and n.d.; 29 items (0.8 linear feet)
Box 1 [Poetry Manuscript Perpetual Date Book]. Contents: Part 1 (386 poems), Part 2 (223 poems). 596 Ms. pages. Handwritten poetry in two perpetual date books (parts 1 and 2), one inscribed with “Margaret A. Walker, given to her December 35, 1929 by her daddy.” Part 1: 386 poems; 1929-1934; Part 2: 223 poems; 1936-1940.
Box 3-4 This Is My Century Manuscripts, Galleys, and Proofs; 9 items
Sub-Series III.B: Novels, 1937, 1965, 1966 and n.d.; 47 items (2.5 linear feet)
Box 7 Goose Island handwritten and typed manuscripts (unpublished); 8 items
Box 8 Mother Beulah, partial original typescript (unpublished), 139 pages, n.d.; 1 item
Subseries III.C: Biography, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1993 and n.d. (7 linear feet)
Box 1-17 Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius, (prepublication title of The Daemonic Genius of Richard Wright), original and carbon typescripts, proofs, and galleys, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1993, n.d.; 38 items
Box 18-19 [Autobiography
of Margaret Walker] (unpublished), n.d.; 3 items
Subseries III.D: Essays, Speeches, Introductions, and Short Works, 1932, 1970-1972, 1974, 1976, 1979, 1981-1984, 1988, 1993, 1995-1996, and n.d.; 130 items (1.3 linear feet)
Box 1 How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature manuscripts, n.d.; 2 items
Box 2 On Being Female, Black, and Free, 1996, n.d.; 2 items
Box 3-4 Assorted essays, speeches, introductions, short works; 126 items (foldered by title)
Series IV: Subject Files, 1931-1989, and n.d. (3.7 linear feet)
Subseries IV.A: Richard Wright Working File, 1931, 1935-1939, 1944-1948, 1950-1951, 1954, 1961, 1964-1970, 1973-1989, n.d. (1.7 linear feet)
Box 1
F01 The Daemonic Genius of Richard Wright (prepared for delivery at Richard Wright Symposium at Ole Miss 21 Nov 1985), 1985; 5 items
F02 Black American Literature Forum, “Bigger Thomas: the Symbolic Negro and the Discrete Human Entity” by Charles de Arman; Summer 1978, Volume 12 # 2, cover page, 61-68 (photocopy); 1 item
F03 Correspondence between Horace Cayton and Elena Albert, 1969, n.d.; 10 items
F04 “Revolt Against Protest: 1940-1952” and “The Search for a Tradition: 1930-1940,” pages 140-161 from unidentified book; 1 item
F05 Correspondence from Sidney Williams on Richard Wright, 1981, n.d.; 2 items
F06 Interviews for Richard Wright Book, 1968; 2 items
F07 Interview Between Sidney Williams and Horace Cayton, 1968; 1 item
F08 Richard Wright, typed chronology of Richard Wright’s life, n.d. (2 pgs.); 1 item
F09 The Art of Richard Wright’s Short Stories by E. B. Burgum The Quarterly Review of Literature, 1944, pgs. 241-259 (photocopy); 1 item
F10 Correspondence Between Herbert Hill (Yale University) and Horace Cayton on Letters Between Richard Wright and Gertrude Stein, 1968; 3 items
F11 Elements in Wright’s Work short Stories and Some Novels (Sony Cassette), pages 1-15, 1 item
F12 Interview Between Herbert Hill and Horace Cayton, 1968, 1969; 4 items
F13 Mike Cook on Richard Wright (Compact Cassette), transcript, n.d. 15 pages
F14 Correspondence Between Horace Cayton and William J. Leahy, 1968-1969; 6 items
F15 Richard Wright Four Long Monographs, 1908-1927, outline, 10 pages
F16 Richard Wright by Margaret Walker Alexander, n.d.; 2 items
F17 Reynolds, Paul; letter from Alexander, 1982; 1 item
F18 “Richard Wright’s First Hundred Books,” by Michael Fabre, pages 458-473; 1 item
F19 “Richard Wright and the American Black Experience” by Lydia E. Ringwald, 1968, 17 pages; 1 item
F20 Introduction to The Daemonic Genius of Richard Wright, working draft, 44 pages, n.d.; 1 item
F21 Writers who influence Richard Wright, notes, n.d.; 2 items
F22 Browning, Alice, notes and letter, 1968, 1969, n.d.; 3 items
F23 Research Material, Program, Midwest Writers Conference June 13-14, 1936, Chicago
F24 Letter from Faulkner to Richard Wright, 1945 (photocopy); 1 item
F25 Correspondence between Horace Cayton and Dr. Alex Ladenson, Librarian, the Chicago Public Library, 1969; 6 items
F26 Overview of Richard Wright’s life, typed notes, 11 pages; 1 item
F27 Selected Bibliography of Works by Richard Wright, from The Emergence of Richard Wright by Kenneth Kinnamon, 26 pages, 2 copies with notations, n.d.; 1 item
F28 Reviews of Constance Webb’s Richard Wright (photocopies), 1968, n.d.; 12 items
F29 Alice Browning Excerpts from taped interview, 11/08/1968 (photocopy), 3 pages; 1 item
F30 “Richard Wright: Black Nationalism – Internationalism, Black People and Religion” (BASF Cassette), 07/17/1975, 2 drafts, pages 2-10, and pages 1-26
F31 Correspondence Between Horace Cayton and Mrs. C. S. Inman, 1968-1969, 2 items
F32 Transcribed Excerpts from Inman Edward Ward Interview Dec 1968 (6 pgs)
F33 Richard Wright Medusa Head Part II New York Years, (Sony Cassette), 06/16/1975, pages 1-31
F34 “Superstition” by Richard Wright, Abbott’s Monthly, Apr 1931, pages 45-47, 64-73
F35 “Genius,” by Alexander, draft pages 1-5
F36 Notes on Anti-Duhring by Frederick Engels, 1 page
F37 Ben Burns letter from Richard Wright, 12/04/1951 (photocopy)
F01 Kenneth Kinnamon Articles and Reviews on Works by Richard Wright, 1965, 1967, 1969, n.d.; 6 items (photocopies)
F02 Correspondence Between Michel Fabre and Margaret Walker Alexander, 1970, 1980; 4 items
F03 Correspondence Between Richard Wright and Margaret Walker, 1937-1939 (note, letters have no dates but envelopes are postmarked 1937-1939); 6 letters, 8 envelopes (including two photocopies)
F04 Letters from Michel Fabre concerning Horace Clayton’s death, 1968, 1970; 5 items
F05 Margrit de Sablonière letter, 1980; 1 item
F06 “The Promise of Democracy in Richard Wright’s Native Son,” E. B. Burgum from unknown book, pages 223-239
F07 Course assignments for American Studies 160, Spring Term 1954; 1 item
F08 Edward L. Margolies, “A Critical Analysis of the Works of Richard Wright,” Language and Literature, n.d., 2 pgs. (photocopy)
F09 Russell Carl Brignano, “Richard Wright: The Major Themes, Ideas, and Attitudes in His Work,” Language and Literature, n.d.,1 pg. (photocopy)
F10 Interview Between Joyce C. Arkhurst and Horace Cayton, excerpt of transcript, 12/03/1968, 4 pages (photocopy)
F11 Correspondence Between Horace Cayton and Judge Archibald J. Carey, Jr., 1969; 4 items
F12 Various Letters Between Horace Cayton and Friends, 1968-1969; 21 items
F13 Interview Between Archibald J. Carey and Carol Adams, excerpt of transcript, 08/05/1968, 6 pages (photocopy)
F14 Letter from Horace Cayton to Rachel Wright, 08/23/1968; 1 item
F15 The Daemonic Genius of Richard Wright, drafts and notes, 1977, n.d.; 5 items
F16 “Richard Wright – A Portrait of the Man: A Critical Study of His Works” by Alexander, Outline, 3 drafts; 1 item
F17 Narrative Treatment of Richard Wright’s Black Boy, 14 pages; 1 item
F18 Nelson Algren, “Remembering Richard Wright,” The Nation, 01/28/1961, pp. 85-86 (photocopy)
F19 Bibliography on Richard Wright, Notes and various drafts, n.d.; 4 items
F20 Correspondence Between and about Horace Cayton and Kenneth Kinnamon, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1970; 18 items
F21 Interview Between St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton, Sept 1968, typed transcript, 6 pages; 1 item
F22 Letter from Nelson Algren to Horace Cayton, postmarked 11/04/1968, 2 pgs. (photocopy); 1 item
F23 Letter to Horace R. Cayton from Willard Mass, 11/17/1968; 1 item
F24 “What is Literature” by Jean-Paul Sartre, pp.75-83, 156-157 (6 pgs) photocopy
F25 The Daemonic Genius of Richard Wright, Part One working copy by Alexander, n.d.; 2 items
F26 Nineteen Years in the Violent White South 1908-1927, Original Outline; 2 versions
F27 Nineteen Years in the Violent White South 1908-1927, draft, pages 1-4; 1 item
F28 The Daemonic Genius of Richard Wright: A Portrait of the Man A Critical Look at His Work, Original Drafts of Introduction; 2 drafts
F29 The Daemonic Genius of Richard Wright, Part One Working Copy; 2 drafts
F30 Introduction, The Daemonic Genius of Richard Wright; 4 drafts
F31 Vita of Horace Cayton [signed by Cayton & laminated], n.d.; 1 item
F32 Interview Between Constance Webb and Horace Cayton, 1968, typed transcript; 6 pages (photocopy)
F33 Interview Between David Bakish and Horace Cayton, 1968, typed transcript, 5 pages (photocopy)
F34 “Biography on Richard Wright,” by Horace Cayton, 1969 (Information taken verbatim from material submitted to the National Endowment for the Humanities from which Cayton received a grant of $8000 to do Wright Biography); 1 item
F35 Correspondence Between Horace Cayton and David Bakish, 1968-1970; 6 items
F36 C. L. R. James on Richard Wright (Scotch Cassette), 43 pages; 1 item
F37 Outline – The Daemonic Genius of Richard Wright, Outlines; 3 items
F38 Correspondence Between Horace Cayton and Constance Webb, 1964, 1968-1969, n.d.; 9 items
F39 Lafargue Clinic (Dr. Frederic Wertham) News Articles and Clippings, 1946, 1947, n.d.; 5 items
F40 Interview Between Ishmael Flory and Horace Cayton, typed transcript, n.d.; 1 item
F01 Interview Between Ralph Ellison and Horace Cayton, 1968, n.d.; 3 items
F02 Correspondence Between Horace R. Cayton and F. Sudre (Mlle) Centre Universitaire International, 1969; 13 items
F03 Richard Wright IIa Chicago Years (Sony Cassette), pages 1-25
F04 Articles about Poems by Richard Wright, 1935, 1936, n.d.; 8 items
F05 Working Materials for Richard Wright Manuscripts, n.d.; 4 items
F06 Kirkus Reviews on Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius, 1987-1989; 3 items
F07 Outline, “Nineteen Years in the Violent White South,” The Daemonic Genius of Richard Wright; 2 drafts
F08 Outline, Final Draft The Daemonic Genius of Richard Wright, n.d.; 10 items
F09 Richard Wright: Wright and the Bible: Job, July 17, 1975 (BASF Cassette), pages 1-27
F10 Richard Wright: Wright’s Medusa Head and Paranoia Pt. 1 (Sony Cassette), pages 15-27; 1 item
F11 Richard Wright: Chicago Years Part 1 a and b (Sony Cassette), pages 1-29; 1 item
F12 “I Tried to Be a Communist” by Richard Wright (Atlanta Monthly); 2 items
F13 Richard Wright: Black Nationalism, Internationalism, Etc... (BASF Cassette), pages 4-10; 1 item
F14 Letter From Guinevere L. Griest on R. Wright Manuscript, 1973; 1 item
F15 The Daemonic Genius of Richard Wright, Part One: The Young Wright, Nineteen Years in the Violent White South 1908-1927; 8 drafts
F16 Interview about Katherine Cue, [information on Interviewees unavailable], 9 pages, 1 item
F17 Richard Wright, Short Essays, 1977, n.d.; 5 items
F18 Handwritten Notes on Richard Wright (Various), 56 pages
F19 Interview Between Joyce Gourfain and Horace Cayton, 1968, excerpt from transcript; 1 item
F20 “Richard Wright: Letters to Joe C. Brown,” edited with introduction by Thomas Knipp, Kent State University Libraries, 1968 (booklet)
F21 “But Not Like Yesterday” by Joe C. Brown, 1948, 1969, n.d.; 4 items
F22 “Black Orpheus,” by Jean-Paul Sartre, Presence Africaine, 29 pages (photocopy) [signed by Barbara C. Wease, 01 Oct 1980]
F23 Interview Between Fern Gayden and Horace R. Cayton, 1968, 4 pages; 1 item (photocopy)
F24 Introduction, Original Draft, The Daemonic Genius of Richard Wright, 5 pages; 1 item
F25 Natchez, The Daemonic Genius of Richard Wright, draft 2 pages; 1 item
F26 “The Dark and Haunted Tower of Richard Wright,” by Nathan A. Scott, pp. 1 –27; 27 pages (photocopy of typescript)
F27 Jackson State University Richard Wright Seminar, 1975, Outline; 3 drafts
F28 “A Bibliography of Resources By or About Richard Wright Prepared for the Mini-Workshop on Richard Wright,” Author Unknown, n.d., 7 pages
F01 “Black on White” by David Little John; 1 item (photocopy)
F02 Richard Wright Article Written in French, 4 pages; 1 item (photocopy)
F03 Orville Prescott, “Book of the Times,” The New York Times, 03/14/1945 (photocopy)
F04 “The Curtain” by Horace Cayton, 1968, n.d.; 3 items (photocopies)
F05 Tradition and Industrialization by Richard Wright, Presence Africaine, n.d., pp.347-365, 10 pages (photocopy)
F06 Letters to publishers from Horace Cayton Requesting works by Richard Wright, 1968-1969; 10 items
F07 Richard Wright: A Biography, excerpts from chapter XVI (photocopy)
F08 Discussion on Native Son, June 12 1975 (Sony Cassette), pages 1-26; 1 item
F09 Correspondence Between Horace Cayton and Ralph and Fanny Ellison, 1964, 1968-1969, n.d.; 9 items
F10 “Big Boy Leaves Home,” by Richard Wright, pages 17-53 (photocopy)
F11 “African Cultural Festival: Cleaver Expected in Algiers,” 14 July 1969 (photocopy of clipping)
F12 “Gentlemen, This is Revolution” from Esquire June 1945, Mr. Lewis, pp. 148-153; 3 pages (photocopy)
F13 Handwritten Notes by Horace Cayton on Richard Wright, 40 pages (photocopy)
F14 Library Card Listing Works by Richard Wright; 1 item (photocopy)
F15 “Quest Fro Richard Wright,” by Ralph Ellison, draft, pages 1-19 (photocopy)
F16 “The Mysterious Death of Richard Wright” by O. Harrington, 1977; 2 items
F17 “The Virus of Violence,” by Frederick Wertham, San Francisco Examiner, 23 Apr 1968, (photocopy) (article on conversation between Richard Wright and Martin Luther King); 1 item
F18 “The Last Days of Richard Wright,” by O. Harrington, Ebony, 16 Feb 1961, 18 pages (photocopy)
F19 Letters from Paris, “Princes and Powers” by James Baldwin Encounter, Jan 1987, 9 pages, (photocopy)
F20 “Selected Bibliography,” The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright, pages 625-638; 14 pages, (photocopy)
F21 Interview Between Mary Wirth and Horace Cayton, 1968, 4 pages; 1 item (photocopy)
F22 Correspondence Between and about Horace Cayton and National Endowment Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, 1967-1970; 34 items (photocopies)
F23 “Richard Wright and the Chicago Renaissance” by Robert Bone, 1980, n.d.; 2 items
F24 Ollie Harrington, “Richard Wright: Ordeal of a Native Son,” Political Affairs, June 1981, pp.18-22; 5 pages (photocopy)
F25 Ted Ward on Richard Wright (Compact Cassette), pages 1-20; 1 item
F26 “Black Boys and Native Sons,” [Irvin Howe], Contours Of American Fiction, pages 98-122; 13 pages (photocopy)
F27 Public Document Catalog, Works Progress Administration, Jan 1935 – Dec 1936, 10 pages (photocopy)
F28 “Richard Wright In Retreat,” by Samuel Sillen, 29 Aug 1944, 2 pages
F29 Nina Kressner Cobb – Richard Wright: Individualism Reconsidered, Exile and Alienation: Afro-American Writers in Post World War II Paris, 1978, 1980, n.d.; 3 items
F30 “From Experience to Eloquence: Richard Wright’s Black Boy as Art,” author unknown, draft pp. 1-20
F31 Jeanine Delpech, “An Interview With A Native Son,” Les Nouvelles, 14 Sept 1950 (photocopy)
F32 Drafts of Essays on Richard Wright’s death, 1960, n.d.; 3 items
F33 Chronology of Events Concerning Richard Wright Book, 1974-1986, 3 pages
F34 Letter from Alexander to Amanda Rudd, Commissioner Chicago Public Library, concerning the Horace Cayton Papers, 1983 (2 pgs)
F35 Problems in Research Doing the Richard Wright Book, photocopy of essay by Alexander, 5 pages
F36 Letters from Alexander Relating to the Richard Wright Book, 1986-1987, 12 items
Subseries IV. B: Personal Subject Files, 92 topics
Persons (foldered by name), 48 folders
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Alexander, Kahari |
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Baldwin, James |
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Bambara, Toni Cade |
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Baraka, Amiri (a.k.a. Jones, LeRoi) |
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Bennett, Lerone |
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Brocks-Shedd, Virgia Lee |
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Candiff, Julien E. |
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Canfield, Dr. Rosemary |
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Coleman, Floyd Willis |
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Conroy, Jack |
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Currie, Alleane M. |
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Davis, Frank Marshall |
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Dodson, Owen |
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Dunham, Katherine |
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Epps, Martin |
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Ford, Nick Aaron |
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Giovanni, Nikki |
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Greenlee, Marcia [Interview with MWA] |
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Hayden, Robert |
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Head, Bessie |
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Hughes, Langston |
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Hurston, Zora Neale |
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Jackson, Jesse [National Rainbow Coalition] |
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