Notebook 8, holograph, signed
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson papers (JWJ MSS 49) > Series II: Writings > Notebooks > Notebook 8, holograph, signed
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Description
- 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
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English
Spanish
French
Item Location
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- JWJ MSS 49
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- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson papers
- Series II: Writings, 1890-1974
- Notebooks
- THIS ITEM Notebook 8, holograph, signed
- Container / Volume
- Box 83, folder 642
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- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 3660118
- Object ID (OID)
- 2008287