Contains photographs of Baldwin by Jill Krementz (published in 1985) for Playboy. Other manuscript materials are a printed leaflet for the "National Day of Mourning for the Children of Birmingham" (1963) in which Baldwin participated as well as a transcription and clipping of an abridged version (published in Isis) of Baldwin's speech at Oxford University for the joint meeting of JACARI (a student-run university charity) and the student union in 1965.
Description:
James Baldwin (1924-1987) was an American author and activist in the American civil rights movement. and Purchased from the William Reese Company on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2010.
Subject (Name):
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century--Archives, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, and Playboy (Chicago, Ill.)
"The Poetry of Tennyson" dedicated to Miss Lemoine, with drawing of King David with his harp. Text in Latin, titles in English. With photograph of Mrs. Maud M. Ford laid in.
Previous to its acquisition by Yale, attributed to Alfred Tennyson.
Description:
Given to Mrs. Maud Ford by Miss Lushington, the poet's niece. and Gift, 1939.
Subject (Name):
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892--Archives
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--19th century and Poets, English--19th century