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Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters (JWJ MSS 1050)
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Series I: Correspondence
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Creator:
From the Collection: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:
1920-1960, undated
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 1050
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 84
Image Count:
6
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 > Bricktop
Creator:
From the Collection: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:
1924–1934
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 1050
Container / Volume:
Box 48, folder 904-907
Image Count:
3
Description:
Includes original and carbon copies of letters to and/or from the Victor Talking Machine Company regarding Paul Robeson recordings (1925); Henry Allen Moe of the Guggenheim Foundation (1926); Hale Woodruff (1927, 1930); Mary W. Ovington (1927); and Hunter Stagg to James Weldon Johnson (1934); and letters regarding the Sabbath Glee Club (1924)
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 > White, Walter > White, Walter, 1924–1934
Creator:
From the Collection: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:
1925 March 9
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 1050
Container / Volume:
Box 46, folder 853
Image Count:
2
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 > Toomer, Jean
Creator:
From the Collection: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:
1925–1957
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 1050
Container / Volume:
Box 5, folder 144-145
Image Count:
2
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 > Cullen, Countee
Creator:
From the Collection: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:
1925–1936
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 1050
Container / Volume:
Box 17, folder 373-380
Image Count:
4
Description:
Includes typescript carbon review by Alain Locke of The Weary Blues enclosed with Hughes's letter of 1926 January 23; cancelled checks from CVV; postcard from Hughes, Fort Valley, Georgia, to CVV co-signed by Zora Neale Hurston, 1927 August 17; typescript carbon copy of contract between Hughes and Prentiss Taylor establishing The Golden Stair Press enclosed with Hughes's letter of 1931 September 8; "The Town of Scottsboro" typescript with autograph note to CVV dated 1932 January 2; typed letter, signed, from Arnold Gingrich, of Esquire magazine to Mark Lutz, dated 1934 January 4
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 > Hughes, Langston > Hughes, Langston, 1925–1936
Creator:
From the Collection: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:
1925 and 1950
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 1050
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 176
Image Count:
5
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 > Dixie Jubilee Singers
Creator:
From the Collection: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:
1925–1938
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 1050
Container / Volume:
Box 29, folder 514-520
Image Count:
72
Description:
Includes typescript draft verses for God's Trombones with autograph note from Johnson to CVV (1926); color brochure of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, with autograph note from Johnson to CVV (1929)
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 > Johnson, James Weldon
Creator:
From the Collection: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:
1925 June 23
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 1050
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 272
Image Count:
3
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 > Garvey, Amy Jacques
Creator:
From the Collection: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:
1925–1931
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 1050
Container / Volume:
Box 41, folder 754
Image Count:
4
Description:
Includes autograph letter, signed, from "Mamie" to CVV (1931)
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 > Robinson, A'Lelia Walker
Creator:
From the Collection: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:
1925–1943
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 1050
Container / Volume:
Box 14, folder 338-345
Image Count:
4
Description:
Typescript carbon copy of poem to Langston Hughes enclosed with letter of 1934 April 10; photograph of Holt (1939)
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 > Holt, Nora Douglas > Holt, Nora Douglas, 1925–1943
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