Collection Title: Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters (JWJ MSS 1050) / Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library / Grouping: Series I: Correspondence

Creator:: From the Collection: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:: 1930 1937
Call Number:: JWJ MSS 1050
Container / Volume:: Box 21, folder 417-418
Image Count:: 173
Description:: Includes correspondence signed with Elmer Samuel Imes.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters (JWJ MSS 1050) > Series I: Correspondence > A-Z Correspondence > Larsen, Nella > Larsen, Nella, 1930 - 1937

Creator:: From the Collection: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:: 1928–1941
Call Number:: JWJ MSS 1050
Container / Volume:: Box 31, folder 578
Image Count:: 40
Description:: Includes typescript proposal for a "New Negro Magazine" enclosed with typed letter, signed, from McKay to CVV (1934)
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters (JWJ MSS 1050) > Series I: Correspondence > A-Z Correspondence > McKay, Claude

Creator:: From the Collection: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:: 1926–1940
Call Number:: JWJ MSS 1050
Container / Volume:: Box 34, folder 649-656
Image Count:: 131
Description:: Includes letters from Jerome B. Peterson to CVV (1939); typed mimeograph "open letter to the Coudert Committee" by the Commiteee for the Defense of Public Education enclosed with Peterson's letter to CVV (1940)
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters (JWJ MSS 1050) > Series I: Correspondence > A-Z Correspondence > Peterson, Dorothy > Peterson, Dorothy, 1926–1940

Creator:: From the Collection: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:: 1941–1950
Call Number:: JWJ MSS 1050
Container / Volume:: Box 35, folder 657-666
Image Count:: 628
Description:: Includes original and carbon copies of letters to and/or from Madeline L. Aldridge, assistant to the editor of Opportunity (1941); Bernard Knollenberg (1942, 1944); and Sidney Peterson (1950); autograph and typescript carbon lists of pamphlets, magazines, letters, performance programs enclosed with letters from Peterson to CVV (1942); photograph of Peterson and her niece Jane White Peterson enclosed with letter from Peterson to CVV(1942)
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters (JWJ MSS 1050) > Series I: Correspondence > A-Z Correspondence > Peterson, Dorothy > Peterson, Dorothy, 1941–1950

Creator:: From the Collection: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:: 1962-1971, undated
Call Number:: JWJ MSS 1050
Container / Volume:: Box 38, folder 686-692
Image Count:: 464
Description:: Includes letters from Nora Holt (1963) and Gladys White (1967); two photographs of guests in Peterson's Seville, Spain apartment (1964); and letters from Peterson to Mark Lutz (1963-1964)
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters (JWJ MSS 1050) > Series I: Correspondence > A-Z Correspondence > Peterson, Dorothy > Peterson, Dorothy, 1962-1971, undated

Creator:: From the Collection: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:: 1934–1964
Call Number:: JWJ MSS 1050
Container / Volume:: Box 41, folder 747-751
Image Count:: 41
Description:: Includes autograph letters, signed, from Robeson to CVV, written on verso of eight photographs of buildings in Russia (1936); autograph letter, signed, from Eslanda C. Goode to CVV (1939?); autograph note, signed, from Robeson to CVV on verso of photograph of the Great Wall of China (1949)
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters (JWJ MSS 1050) > Series I: Correspondence > A-Z Correspondence > Robeson, Eslanda > Robeson, Eslanda, 1934–1964