Notebook 8, holograph, signed

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Title: Notebook 8, holograph, signed
Creator: From the Collection: Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938
Contributor: From the Collection: Johnson, Grace Nail, 1885-1976
Published / Created: 1899-1904
Description: Contains 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."
Provenance: Gift of Grace Nail Johnson, 1941-1976; Gift of Ollie Jewell Sims Okala, 1976-2001; Purchased from Sondra Kathryn Wilson on the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts & Letters Fund, 2002-2006.
Language: English
Spanish
French

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

JWJ MSS 49

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Box 83, folder 642

Access: Public
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Citation: James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.