Ralph Ellison: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress (full view)

Title: Papers of Ralph Ellison
Span Dates: 1890-1996
Bulk Dates: (bulk 1933-1990)
ID No.: MSS83111
Creator: Ellison, Ralph
Size: 46,100 items; 231 plus 22 oversize; 110 linear feet
Language: Collection material in English
Repository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Abstract: African-American author and educator. General correspondence, organizational correspondence and reports, family papers, drafts, notes, and production files for novels, essays, poetry, short stories, reviews, and other writings, speeches, lectures, and interviews, reference file, and miscellany documenting Ellison's career and development as a writer. Among the many works represented are Going to the Territory (1985), Invisible Man (1952), and Shadow and Act (1964).

Selected Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.

Names:

Ellison, Ralph
Bellow, Saul--Correspondence
Brooks, Harry, 1895-1970--Correspondence
Calicutt, Harold--Correspondence
Cheever, John--Correspondence
Ciardi, John, 1916- --Correspondence
Clark, Kenneth Bancroft, 1914- --Correspondence
Davis, Henry B. O., 1911- --Correspondence
Dawson, William Levi, 1899- --Correspondence
Engle, Paul, 1908- --Correspondence
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967--Correspondence
Hyman, Stanley Edgar, 1919-1970--Correspondence
Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965--Correspondence
Murray, Albert--Correspondence
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905- --Correspondence
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960--Correspondence
American Medical Center for Burma
Bennington College
Carnegie Commission on Educational Television
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Federal Writers' Project
Museum of the City of New York
Negro People's Theatre (Chicago, Ill.)
New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.)
Wake Forest University
Ellison, Fanny McConnell. Papers of Fanny McConnell Ellison
Ellison, Ralph. Going to the Territory
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man
Ellison, Ralph. Shadow and Act

Subjects:

African American authors
American literature--African American authors--Study and teaching

Occupations:

Authors
Educators

Administrative Information

Provenance:

The papers of Ralph Ellison (1914-1994), author and educator, were acquired by the Library of Congress from his widow, Fanny McConnell Ellison, through a gift, purchase, and deposit, 1995-1997.

Processing History:

A description of the Ralph Ellison Papers appears in Library of Congress Acquisitions: Manuscript Division, 1994-1995, pp. 56-60.

Transfers:

Items have been transferred from the Manuscript Division to other custodial divisions of the Library. Audio and video recordings have been transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. Photographs have been transferred to the Prints and Photographs Division. All transfers are identified in these divisions as part of the Ralph Ellison Papers.

Copyright Status:

Copyright in the unpublished writings of Ralph Ellison in these papers and in other collections in the custody of the Library of Congress is controlled by the estate of Fanny McConnell Ellison.

Restrictions:

Restrictions apply governing the use, photoduplication, or publication of items in this collection. Consult a reference librarian in the Manuscript Division for information concerning these restrictions.

Preferred Citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Ralph Ellison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Biographical Note

Date	Event
1914, Mar. 1	Born, Oklahoma City, Okla.
1933-1936	Attended Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala.
1938-1942	Researcher, Federal Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration Married Rose Poindexter (divorced 1945)
1939	Published short story "Slick Gonna Learn" in Direction
1940	Published short story "The Birthmark" in New Masses Published short story "Afternoon" in American Writing, ed. Hans Otto Storm and others (Prairie City, Ill.: J.A. Decker)
1941	Published short story "Mister Toussan" in New Masses
1942	Managing editor, Negro Quarterly
1943-1945	Seaman, merchant marine
1944	Published short story "Flying Home" in Cross Section, ed. Edwin Seaver (New York: L. B. Fischer) Published short story "King of the Bingo Game" in Tomorrow
1945	Received Rosenwald Fellowship
1946	Married Fanny McConnell Buford
1948	Published short story "Battle Royal" in '48, The Magazine of the Year
1952	Published Invisible Man (New York: Random House. 429 pp.)
1953	Received National Book Award for Invisible Man
1955-1957	Received American Academy of Arts and Letters Fellowship for study in Rome
1958-1961	Instructor, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
1960	Published short story "And Hickman Arrives" in The Noble Savage
1961	Alexander White Visiting Professor, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
1962-1964	Visiting Professor of Writing, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.
1964	Published Shadow and Act (New York: Random House. 317 pp.)
1964-1965	Visiting Fellow in American Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
1966-1972	Honorary consultant in American letters, Library of Congress
1967-1977	Trustee, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
1968-1979	Board of Directors, Educational Broadcasting Corp.
1969	Decorated chevalier Ordre des Arts et Lettres, France Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
1969-1982	Trustee, New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y.
1970-1975	Trustee, Bennington College, Bennington, Vt.
1970-1979	Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities, New York University, New York, N.Y.
1970-1985	Board of Directors, Museum of the City of New York, New York, N.Y.
1971-1984	Trustee, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
1972-1985	Board of Visitors, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C.
1975	Opening of Ralph Ellison Branch, Metropolitan Library System, Oklahoma City, Okla.
1985	Awarded National Medal of Arts
1986	Published Going to the Territory (New York: Random House. 338 pp.)
1994, Apr. 16	Died, New York, N.Y.
1999	Posthumous publication, Juneteenth (New York: Random House. 368 pp.)

Scope and Content Note

The papers of Ralph Ellison span the years 1890-1996 with the bulk of the items concentrated in the period 1933-1990. The collection documenting Ellison's career as author and educator includes nine series: Family Papers ; General Correspondence ; Organizations File ; Writings File ; Speeches, Lectures, and Interviews ; Reference File ; Miscellany ; Closed ; and Oversize.

The Family Papers contain personal material pertaining to Ellison, his wife, Fanny McConnell Ellison, and their parents, siblings, former spouses, and other relatives. A substantial file relating to Ellison's employment includes material from his many teaching appointments. Of particular interest are the notes and reports he compiled for the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Fanny Ellison's employment papers document her work for the American Medical Center for Burma through the Harold L. Oram agency and her contribution as one of the founders of the Negro People's Theatre in Chicago. Also noteworthy are her drawings pertaining to the history of costume executed as a WPA project for the Chicago Board of Education. Household papers contain material on the Ellisons' property in New York, Key West, Florida, and Plainfield, Massachusetts. The latter includes insurance records of the fire which destroyed the first drafts of Ellison's unpublished Hickman novel. Other material in the family papers consists of biographical information, financial, legal, and medical records, school and military records, newspaper and magazine articles about Ellison, travel documents, notes, and printed matter.

The General Correspondence series contains Ralph and Fanny Ellison's incoming and outgoing letters to friends and business associates. Correspondents include institutions and businesses as well as individuals. Chief among them are Saul Bellow, John Cheever, John Ciardi, Kenneth B. Clark, William Dawson, Paul Engle, Langston Hughes, Stanley Edgar Hyman, Shirley Jackson, Albert Murray, Robert Penn Warren, and Richard Wright. Several of Ellison's letters to friends and acquaintances such as Harry Brooks, Harold Calicutt, and Henry B. O. Davis contain reminiscences of his childhood, college years, and early adulthood.

The Organizations File concerns a wide range of cultural, educational, and charitable institutions in which Ellison participated as an officer, advisor, or trustee. For example, he served on the governing boards of Bennington College, the Carnegie Commission on Educational Television, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the Museum of the City of New York, the New School for Social Research, and Wake Forest University. Material in the file consists primarily of correspondence and reports.

The Writings File contains drafts, notes, and production material for Ellison's literary works. The material in an essays and essay collections file, arranged alphabetically by title, appeared as journal articles or chapters published in compilations by others. Material pertaining to Ellison's own collections, Shadow and Act and Going to the Territory, is also included in this section. Many of his essays were reworked and republished several times. Ellison also wrote poetry, reviews of books, films, and recordings, short stories, and forewords, introductions, and endorsements for literary works of others. There is evidence that Ellison wrote book reviews in the 1940s under the pseudonym David Wilson. An incomplete draft of his memoirs also contains notes and outlines. Dates in parentheses in the container list refer to the publication date; other dates refer to the creation and span of the material in the folder.

Material relating to Ellison's novels makes up the bulk of the Writings File. In order to show Ellison's approach to writing, his system of filing drafts alphabetically by title of episode rather than final story sequence has been maintained. Quotation marks are used to indicate episode titles devised by Ellison. A section relating to Invisible Man includes production material, publicity items, reviews, opera and film proposals, correspondence with publishers regarding various editions, foreign rights and translations, and the comments and criticism of others. A miscellany section in the Writings File contains bibliographies and literary criticisms of Ellison's works, plot ideas, notes, royalty statements, and information regarding copyrights, permissions, and reprints.

The Speeches, Lectures, and Interviews series demonstrates Ellison's popularity as a speaker at special events, club meetings, and university seminars. His customary subjects were literary, but also included music and art. During his fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, Ellison lectured at several European seminars. Ellison also held numerous teaching positions ranging from one semester as a visiting professor to appointments lasting for several years. Courses included the contemporary American novel and Russian literature. He was frequently interviewed for radio programs, magazines, and newspapers. Among his interviewers were Michael S. Harper, Irving Howe, and Robert Penn Warren. The three sections of this series, containing texts, correspondence, notes, and printed matter, are arranged chronologically.

The Reference File includes newspaper and magazine articles and other printed matter on subjects ranging from music, art, and literature to sports, politics, and civil rights. A large biographical section includes material on individuals whom Ellison either knew or considered interesting.

The Miscellany series contains address books, appointment calendars, invitations, programs, and ephemera. Also included are papers relating to the awards, citations, and honorary degrees awarded to Ellison. The Closed series consists primarily of correspondence, writings, and drawings which are too fragile for handling. Photocopies of each item have been placed where the original would have appeared in the collection. Material too large for the document boxes has been moved to the Oversize series.

Organization of the Papers

The collection is arranged in nine series:

Family Papers, 1890-1996, n.d.
General Correspondence, 1930-1996, n.d.
Organizations File, 1939-1994, n.d.
Writings File, 1935-1995, n.d.
Speeches, Lectures, and Interviews, 1945-1993, n.d.
Reference File, 1901-1995, n.d.
Miscellany, 1904-1994, n.d.
Closed, 1932-1994, n.d.
Oversize, 1923-1993, n.d.

Container List

Box	Contents


BOX 1-34	Family Papers, 1890-1996, n.d.
		Correspondence between family members, vital records, school papers, military records, household, financial, and legal papers, employment records, diaries, notes, newspaper articles, and printed ephemera relating to Ralph and Fanny Ellison and other family members.

BOX 1		Bell, Ida Ellison

			Correspondence, 1912, 1921-1937, n.d.

			Miscellany, 1918-1938, n.d.

		Buford, Ligon

			Citizens' Committee for Reemployment, 1938, n.d.

			Miscellany, 1938-1945, n.d.

		Ellison, Alfred, n.d.

		Ellison, Fanny McConnell

			Correspondence

				Buford, James A., 1943-1944

				Buford, Ligon, 1934-1945, 1963, 1980
					(3 folders)

				General, 1930-1996, n.d.
					(4 folders)

BOX 2				Warren, Billy ("Willy") and George, 1932-1967, n.d.
					(3 folders)

				Warren, John, Rosanna, and Sue, 1968-1971, 1989-1992, n.d.

				Waugh, Eliza ("Ella"), 1952-1963, n.d.

				Waugh, Robert Harold and Mary, 1955-1957, 1967-1978, n.d.

			Employment

				Chicago Defender, 1939-1941, n.d.
					(2 folders)

				Chicago, Ill., Board of Education, Visual Education Project

					"Ancient Roman and Byzantine Costume," n.d.
						(3 folders) See also Oversize

BOX 3					Correspondence, 1938-1939, n.d.

					"Costume of the Eighteenth Century," n.d.
						(5 folders) See also Oversize

					Costume of the Middle Ages and seventeenth century, n.d. See also Oversize
						(5 folders)
BOX 4						(12 folders)
BOX 5						(1 folder)

					"Egyptian Costume," n.d.
						(7 folders) See also Oversize

					"Greek Costume," n.d.
						(4 folders)
BOX 6						(1 folder)

					Miscellany, 1938-1939, n.d.

					Persian and Chinese costume, n.d.

				Harold L. Oram (fund-raising agency), 1950-1970, 1980-1981, n.d.
					(3 folders)

				Miscellany, 1933-1955, 1967, n.d.

				National Urban League, 1943-1946, n.d. See also Oversize

				Negro People's Theatre, Chicago, Ill.

					Constitution and organization, 1939, n.d.

					Correspondence, 1937-1940, n.d.
						(4 folders)

BOX 7					Financial papers, 1938-1939, n.d.

					Meetings, 1938-1939, n.d.

					Membership and officers, 1938-1939, n.d.

					Miscellany, 1936-1940, n.d.
						(2 folders)

					Proposals, 1939, n.d.

				New York City Housing Authority, New York, N.Y., 1945-1946, n.d.

				Résumés, 1929-1956

				United States Navy, Bureau of Yards and Docks, 1941-1942, n.d.

				War Production Board, Traffic Section, 1937-1944

BOX 8				Works Progress Administration, 1937-1941, n.d.

				World Organization of the Lamp of Brotherhood, 1956-1963, n.d.

				Young Women's Christian Association, 1937-1941, n.d.

			Legal papers, 1937, 1944-1954, 1963-1981
				(2 folders)

			Medical papers, 1938-1984, 1995, n.d.
				(4 folders)

			Miscellany, 1929, 1937-1944, 1958-1963, n.d.

BOX 9			Notes

				1942-1995
					(5 folders)

BOX 10				Undated
					(5 folders)
BOX 11					(7 folders)
BOX 12					(1 folder)

			School papers

				Elementary and high school, Chicago, Ill., 1921-1932, n.d. See also Oversize

				Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.

					Creative Literature, 1933

					General, 1931-1938, n.d.

				General, 1931, 1936-1949, n.d.
					(3 folders)

				University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

					Contemporary British drama, 1933-1936, n.d.

					Fundamentals of speech, 1936

					General, 1934-1942, n.d.

BOX 13					Miscellaneous notes, n.d.
						(2 folders)

					Modern drama, 1934-1935, n.d.

					Stagecraft, n.d.

			Writings, 1930-1943, n.d.
				(5 folders)

		Ellison, Herbert M.

			Correspondence, 1934-1937, n.d.

			Miscellany, 1928-1944, n.d.

			School papers, n.d.

BOX 14		Ellison, Ralph

			Biographical material, 1943-1994, n.d.
				(6 folders)

			Correspondence

				Bell, Ida Ellison

					1933
						(2 folders)

BOX 15					1934-1937, n.d.
						(6 folders)

				Bell, John, 1933-1935, n.d.

				Brown, Lewis Thomas and Othello Albertha, 1953-1980, n.d.

				Buford, Ligon, 1980

				Ellison, Fanny McConnell

					1944-1959
						(4 folders)

BOX 16					1961-1963, 1970, 1984-1990, n.d.
						(2 folders)

				Ellison, Herbert M., 1933-1993, n.d.
					(6 folders)

				Ellison, Rose Poindexter, 1939-1943, n.d.

				Johnston, May Belle DeWitt, 1936-1953, n.d.

BOX 17				Miscellaneous family members, 1937-1983, n.d.

			Diaries, 1934-1936, n.d.

			Drawings, 1932, n.d.

			Employment

				Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., 1956-1984, n.d.
					(2 folders)

				Bennington College, Bennington, Vt., 1958, 1964, 1974, 1982-1983

				City University of New York, New York, N.Y., 1959, 1965-1993
					(2 folders)

				General, 1937-1942

				New York University, New York, N.Y.

					1960-1971
						(2 folders)

BOX 18					1972-1995, n.d.
						(10 folders)

BOX 19				Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., 1959-1969, 1984-1992, n.d.
					(2 folders)

				Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., 1953-1954

				University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., 1959-1962, n.d.

				Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project

					Assignments, 1938-1941, n.d.

					Correspondence, 1938-1942, 1976-1980, n.d.

					Miscellany, 1938-1942, n.d.

					Reports

						Anti-Semitism, n.d.

						"Cultural Contributions of the American Negro," 1940, n.d.

BOX 20						"Famous Trials," 1941
							(4 folders)

						Folklore, ca. 1938
							(2 folders)

						History of New York, N.Y., n.d.

						"Jews in American Theatre," ca. 1939

						"The Negro and the War," ca. 1940
							(3 folders)

						"Negro Leadership," n.d.

BOX 21						"Negroes of New York"

							Outline and comments, 1940

							Chapt. II, n.d.

							Chapt. V, n.d.

							Chapt. VI, n.d.

							Chapt. VII, n.d.

							Chapt. XVII, n.d.

							Chapt. XVIII, 1940

							Notes, n.d.

						Radio, n.d.

						Religion and abolitionism, n.d.

						Sociological studies, 1929, 1938, n.d.
							(2 folders)

			Financial papers

				Income and expenses

					1936-1937, 1945-1970
						(3 folders) See also Oversize

BOX 22					1971-1992, n.d.
						(5 folders) See also Oversize

				Income taxes

					1949-1971
						(4 folders)

BOX 23					1972-1993, n.d.
						(8 folders)

				Miscellany, 1942, 1964-1994, n.d.

				Pensions and investments

					1968-1979

BOX 24					1980-1996, n.d.
						(3 folders)

			Household papers

				Automobile papers, 1942, 1950-1991, n.d.
					(3 folders)

				Dog records, 1945-1951, 1960-1972, n.d.

				Domestic service, 1964-1966, 1973-1976, 1995, n.d.

				Inventories and insurance

					1945, 1955-1956, 1964-1973
						(3 folders) See also Oversize

BOX 25					1974-1994, n.d.
						(5 folders)

				Key West, Fla.

					Correspondence, 1975-1994, n.d.
						(3 folders)

					Financial papers, 1976-1984 See also Oversize

					Inventories and insurance, 1976-1977, 1990-1994, n.d.

					Legal papers, 1976, 1986, n.d.
						(2 folders) See also Oversize

BOX 26					Miscellany, 1989-1994, n.d. See also Oversize

				Miscellany, 1979-1980, n.d.

				Plainfield, Mass.

					Correspondence, 1959, 1966-1970, 1976-1986, 1995, n.d.
						(2 folders)

					Financial papers, 1967-1993

					Inventories and insurance, 1967-1968, 1993, n.d. See also Oversize

					Legal papers, 1967

					Miscellany, 1969, 1984-1990, n.d.

				New York, N.Y.

					Correspondence

						1940-1942, 1952, 1961-1986
							(5 folders)

BOX 27						1987-1993, n.d.
							(3 folders)

					Financial papers, 1939-1944, 1950, 1969-1991, n.d.
						(2 folders)

					Inventories, 1959, 1978-1979, n.d.

					Legal papers, 1939, 1970-1971, 1993

					Miscellany, 1941, 1970-1990, n.d.

					Tenants' Association

						1963-1989
							(4 folders)

BOX 28						1990-1994, n.d.
							(2 folders)

			Legal papers

				Alfred Rice (law firm), 1967-1972, 1989, n.d.

				General, 1937-1945, 1954-1959, 1964-1984, 1994

			Medical papers, 1936-1948, 1955-1956, 1961-1994, n.d.
				(2 folders)

			Military papers

				Correspondence, 1942-1945, n.d.

				Employment records and wages, 1942-1945, n.d.

				Medical records, 1944-1945, n.d.

				Miscellany, 1943-1945, n.d.

				Publications, 1943-1944

				Seaman's certificates and classifications, 1937-1945, n.d.

			Newspaper and magazine articles

				1937, 1944-1947
					(2 folders)

BOX 29				1950-1969
					(5 folders)

BOX 30				1970-1994, n.d.
					(5 folders)

			Notes

				1930-1943, 1951-1958, 1963-1980, 1988
					(2 folders)

BOX 31				Undated
					(3 folders)

			Photography, 1947-1954, n.d.

			Printed matter, 1933, 1941-1946, 1955-1994, n.d.
				(3 folders) See also Oversize

BOX 32			School papers

				Douglass High School, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1929-1935, 1953, 1975, n.d.

				Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala.

					Correspondence, 1933-1936, n.d.

					Course work, 1934-1936, n.d.
						(3 folders)

					Financial papers, 1933-1936, n.d.

					Grades and schedules, 1933-1936

					Miscellany, 1933-1936, 1947, n.d.

					Music, 1890, 1905-1935, n.d. See also Oversize
						(2 folders)
BOX 33						(4 folders)

					Poetry and notes, 1934, n.d.

					Programs, 1927-1936, 1948-1953, n.d.
						(2 folders)

					Publications, 1931-1937, 1952-1953, n.d.
						(2 folders) See also Oversize

BOX 34			Travel

				England, France, Germany, and Switzerland, 1956-1959, n.d.

				Hong Kong, 1963

				India, Japan, and Thailand, 1957

				Italy, 1955-1957

				Miscellany, 1955-1957, 1966-1967, n.d.

				Spain, 1954

				United States, 1953-1954, 1962-1968, 1978-1984, n.d.

		Ellison, Lewis (Louis) Albert, 1912-1916, 1966, n.d.

		Ellison, Rose Poindexter, 1911, 1939-1948, n.d.

		Miscellany, 1919, 1938, 1959, n.d.

		Warren, George, 1959-1968

		Warren family, 1955-1968, 1975, n.d.

BOX 35-79	General Correspondence, 1930-1996, n.d.
		Incoming and outgoing correspondence of Ralph and Fanny Ellison with friends, colleagues, and business associates.
		Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent and chronologically therein.

BOX 35		A. Philip Randolph Institute, New York, N.Y., 1969-1972, 1979, 1985-1986, n.d.

		Adult Education Council of Greater Chicago, Ill., 1967-1970, n.d.

		Aldridge, John W. and Leslie, 1955-1957, n.d.

		Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1948-1979, n.d.

		Allen, Betty See Container 55, Lee, Edd

		American Heritage Publishing Co., 1959, 1972-1976

		American Studies Association, 1965-1966

		Amsden, Arthur and Mabel, 1947-1948, n.d.

		Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1952-1954, 1968, 1979, n.d.

		Antioch Review, 1943-1946, 1952-1954, 1964, 1976-1980, n.d. See also Container 37, Bixler, Paul

		Arnold, Fritz and Ursula, 1950-1962, n.d.

		Arter, Anne, Callye, and Paul, 1949-1992, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Atheneum (New York, N.Y.), 1960-1981, n.d.

		Atlantic Monthly, 1944-1945, 1952-1953, 1960, 1966-1977, n.d.

BOX 36		"A" miscellaneous, 1939-1993, n.d.
			(7 folders)

BOX 37		Babb, Sonora, 1941-1958, n.d.
			(3 folders)

		Ballard, Allen B., 1983

		Barton, Robert D., 1954-1956, 1964, 1977, n.d.

		Bearden, Romare, 1944, 1968-1971, 1986, n.d.

		Bellow, Saul, 1952-1964, 1977, 1994, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Bibby, Henry Lambert, 1940-1944, n.d.

		Bixler, Paul and Norma, 1958-1962, n.d. See also Container 35, Antioch Review

		Blanchard, Daniel L. See Container 49, Grapevine Gallery

		Blaustein, Albert P. and Lottie, 1956-1958, n.d.

		Bond, Nina, 1955-1957, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Bone, Robert and Dotty, 1966-1970, 1981, n.d.

		Book-of-the-Month Club, 1944, 1968-1970, 1986, 1993, n.d.

BOX 38		Botkin, Henry, 1964-1966, n.d.

		Bourjaily, Vance and Tina, 1961-1968, 1986, n.d.

		Branam, Virgil and Ethel, 1934, 1942-1973, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Brandel, Kuno and Elsa, 1950-1959, n.d.

		Breadloaf Writers' Conference, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt., 1958-1960, 1986, n.d.

		British Broadcasting Corp., 1963-1965, 1975, 1981-1984, n.d.

		Brooks, Lucille See Container 45, Dillon, Lucille

		Burke, Kenneth, 1945-1954, 1964-1972, 1981-1985, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		"B-Bay" miscellaneous, 1936, 1948-1993, n.d.
			(3 folders)

BOX 39		"Be-Bo" miscellaneous, 1937-1994, n.d.
			(7 folders)

BOX 40		"Br-By" miscellaneous, 1937-1993, n.d.
			(5 folders)

		Calicutt, Harold, 1940-1952, 1971-1975, n.d.

		Callahan, John F., Susan, Eve, and Sasha, 1977-1995, n.d.
			(2 folders)

BOX 41		Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., 1965-1972, 1981-1982, 1988-1989, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Cayton, Horace R., 1945-1947, 1957-1970, n.d.

		Cheever, John and Mary, 1958-1964, n.d.

		Cherne, Leo and Phyllis, 1953-1958, 1970, 1976, 1985-1992, n.d.

		Chute, Marchette Gaylord and Joy, 1956-1976, 1986, n.d.

		Ciardi, John, 1956, 1962-1964, 1981-1988

		Clark, Kenneth Bancroft and Mamie, 1955-1963, 1970-1976, 1982-1987, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1960-1969, 1983

		Columbia University, New York, N.Y., 1953-1983, 1990-1993, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Congress for Cultural Freedom, 1956-1966, n.d.

BOX 42		Copeland, Virginia, 1957, 1984-1994, n.d.

		Covo, Jacqueline, 1953-1957, 1964, 1971-1975, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Crouch, Stanley, 1971, 1977-1989, n.d.

		Curry, Frances and Jimmy, 1954-1957, 1975-1976, n.d.

		"Ca" miscellaneous, 1950-1994, n.d.
			(4 folders)

BOX 43		"Ce-Com" miscellaneous, 1942-1994, n.d.
			(7 folders)

BOX 44		"Con-Cu" miscellaneous, 1943-1993, n.d.
			(3 folders)

		Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1962-1969, 1976, 1983-1988

		Davidson, Charles, 1962-1977, n.d.

		Davis, Henry B. O. ("Hoolie"), 1984-1985

		Dawson, William L., 1933-1934, 1954-1988, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		DeCredico, Jessan, 1980-1990

		Deren, Maya, 1948-1954, n.d.

		Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Mich., 1986-1987

BOX 45		Dial Press, 1954-1971

		Diamond, David, 1968, 1987, n.d.

		Dillon, Lucille, 1945-1959, n.d.

		Doubleday and Co., 1943-1946, 1958-1982

		Douglas, Jean, 1952-1957, n.d.

		Drye, F. L., 1935

		Ducornet, Guy, 1960-1962, n.d.

		"Da-Di" miscellaneous, 1937-1994, n.d.
			(5 folders)

BOX 46		"Do-Dy" miscellaneous, 1942-1994, n.d.
			(3 folders)

		Edel, Leon, 1976, 1986-1987

		Educational Services, 1964-1965

		Ellington, Duke, n.d. See Oversize

		Engle, Paul, and Hualing Nieh, 1945, 1955-1991, n.d.
			(3 folders)

BOX 47		Esquire, 1949, 1958-1981, 1987, 1994, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		"E" miscellaneous, 1934, 1952-1954, 1961-1994, n.d.
			(4 folders)

		Fabre, Michel, 1970-1973, 1983, 1989, n.d.

		Faulkner, William, 1956-1957, n.d.

		Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., 1949-1953, 1963-1966, n.d.

		Ford, Harry, 1947, 1955-1956, n.d.

BOX 48		Forrest, Leon and Anne, 1972-1981, 1987-1988, n.d.

		Frank, Joseph, 1964-1975, 1981-1986, n.d.

		"F" miscellaneous, 1937-1940, 1948-1994, n.d.
			(5 folders)

BOX 49		Golsan, Lucy, 1978-1980

		Grapevine Gallery, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1976-1996, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Gray, Walter L., Jr. See same container, Grapevine Gallery

		Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, 1967

		Guggenheimer, Ida E., 1944-1959, n.d.

		"Ga-Go" miscellaneous, 1944-1994, n.d.
			(3 folders)

BOX 50		"Gr-Gy" miscellaneous, 1948-1994, n.d.
			(3 folders)

		Hagopian, Sylvia der See Container 71, Tamm, Sylvia

		Hanes, R. Philip, 1966-1981, 1987, n.d.

		Harper, Michael S., 1971-1976, 1982-1994, n.d.

		Harper and Row Publishers, 1953-1969, 1977-1980, 1987, n.d.

		Harper's Magazine, 1943, 1949-1953, 1960-1968, 1990, n.d.

		Harrison, Hazel, 1936-1940, 1954, 1967-1969, n.d.

		Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1962-1993, n.d.
			(2 folders)

BOX 51		Healy, Arthur and Sophia, 1959-1969, n.d.

		Hebestreit, Ludwig, n.d.

		Hemingway, Mary, 1964-1978, n.d.

		Hersey, John and Barbara, 1971-1974, 1980-1987, n.d.

		Hicks, Elizabeth, 1954-1962, 1974, 1988, n.d.

		Hines, Odette Harper, 1974, 1984-1987

		Honsaker, Debbie and Coy, 1971, 1977-1992, n.d.

		Houghton Mifflin Co., 1944-1947, 1966-1970, 1976-1980, 1987-1993, n.d.

		Howard, Marie Toynet, 1935-1938

		Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1954, 1964-1967, 1977-1987, n.d.

		Howe, Irving, 1976-1981, 1988, n.d.

		Hughes, Langston, 1936-1966, n.d.

		Humphrey, Hubert H., 1966-1968

		Hyman, Stanley Edgar, and Shirley Jackson, 1942-1972, 1986, n.d.
			(2 folders)

BOX 52		"Ha-Hs" miscellaneous, 1934, 1940-1994, n.d.
			(10 folders)

BOX 53		"Hu-Hy" miscellaneous, 1954-1994, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		"I" miscellaneous, 1940, 1949-1993, n.d.
			(3 folders)

		Jackson, Shirley See Container 51, Hyman, Stanley Edgar

		John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1944-1945, 1954-1989, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Johnson, Lyndon B. and Lady Bird, 1965-1979, 1986, n.d.

		Julius Rosenwald Fund, 1944-1946, n.d.

BOX 54		"J" miscellaneous, 1935-1993, n.d.
			(5 folders)

		Katz, Donald, 1972-1989, n.d.

		Kazin, Alfred, 1947, 1954-1955, 1987

		Kostelanetz, Richard, 1964-1992, n.d.

		Kouwenhoven, John Atlee, 1970-1988

BOX 55		"K" miscellaneous, 1950-1994, n.d.
			(5 folders)

		Langston University, Langston, Okla., 1953, 1966-1970, 1978, 1985

		Lazenberry, Joe, 1935-1939, n.d.

		Lee, Edd and Betty Allen, 1958-1964, 1974-1975, 1985-1988, n.d.

		Lerner, Max and Edna, 1955-1957, 1968, n.d.

		Lewis, Richard W. B. and Nancy, 1954-1970, 1977-1991, n.d.

		Lillard, Stewart, Jr., 1967-1989, n.d.

		Lynes, Russell and Mildred, 1955-1956, 1970-1987, n.d.

BOX 56		"L" miscellaneous, 1936-1941, 1952-1994, n.d.
			(6 folders)

		MacLeish, Archibald, 1956-1957, n.d.

		Macmillan Co., 1957, 1963-1974, 1980, n.d.

		Mann, Augusta and Sam, 1948-1958, 1964-1972, 1979-1984, n.d.

BOX 57		Martin, David, 1952-1953, 1971-1974, n.d.

		Mazzetti, Annamarie and Mario, 1957-1965, n.d.

		McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1953-1972, 1983-1984, n.d.

		McPherson, James Alan, 1956, 1969-1994, n.d.
			(3 folders)

		Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt., 1958-1971

		Miller, Lucille See Container 45, Dillon, Lucille

		Moore, Julia A. ("Chubby"), 1933-1938

		Morisey, Alexander, 1934, 1943-1968, 1979-1980, 1987-1992, n.d.
			(2 folders)

BOX 58		Murray, Albert, and Murray family, 1947-1962, 1967-1970, 1978-1988, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		"Ma" miscellaneous, 1941-1994, n.d.
			(5 folders)

BOX 59		"Mc-Mo" miscellaneous, 1932, 1942-1994, n.d.
			(8 folders)

BOX 60		"Mr-My" miscellaneous, 1953-1976, 1982-1993, n.d.

		Nadel, Alan, 1984-1991

		Naguid, Jack and Nina, 1937-1938, n.d.

		National Educational Television and Radio Center, 1965-1966

		Negro Quarterly, 1940-1945, 1968, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		New Masses, 1939-1947, n.d.

		New York Times, 1953-1955, 1963-1987

		New Yorker, 1945-1960, 1966, 1976-1978, n.d.

		Newsweek, 1963-1966, 1974, 1992

		Nieh, Hualing See Container 46, Engel, Paul

		Norman, Dorothy and Edward, 1948-1959, 1965-1966, 1976, n.d.

BOX 61		"N" miscellaneous, 1938-1993, n.d.
			(8 folders)

BOX 62		Oklahoma Heritage Association, Hall of Fame, 1986, 1992, n.d.

		O'Meally, Robert G., 1973-1988
			(2 folders)

		Organization of American Historians, 1971-1972, n.d.

		"O" miscellaneous, 1936, 1943-1994, n.d.
			(4 folders)

		Paris Review, 1954-1967, 1980-1984, n.d.

		Partisan Review, 1952-1966, 1983, n.d.

BOX 63		Peterson, Renee and William, 1950-1952, n.d.

		Playboy, 1962, 1981, n.d.

		Po, Pansy, 1968-1993, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Porter, Horace, 1976-1992, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 1952-1983, n.d.
			(3 folders)

		Pushcart Book Press, 1975-1983

BOX 64		"P" miscellaneous, 1936-1993, n.d.
			(7 folders)

		"Q" miscellaneous, 1957, 1963-1969, 1976-1977, n.d.

BOX 65		Ralph Ellison Branch, Metropolitan Library System, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1973-1990, n.d.
			(2 folders) See also Oversize

		Rampersad, Arnold, 1980-1988

		Randolph, James and Madeline, 1953, 1966-1982, n.d.

		Random House, 1947-1994, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Rhone, Camille and Mamie, 1954-1955, 1985-1986

		Roark, James L., 1980-1986

		Roche, Connie and John, 1971, 1977-1992, n.d.

		Rockefeller Foundation, 1964-1980, n.d.

BOX 66		"R" miscellaneous, 1939-1994, n.d.
			(9 folders)

BOX 67		Sarser, David and Gloria, 1955-1969, 1975-1982, 1989-1990, n.d.

		Saturday Evening Post, 1963-1966, n.d.

		Saturday Review, 1952-1962, 1982

		Schiwetz, Berthold ("Tex"), 1956-1971, n.d.

		Schwartz, Bernard Lee and Ronny, 1978-1983, n.d.

		Scott, Nathan A. and Charlotte, 1961-1995, n.d
			(4 folders)

		Slaughter, Edna, 1954-1969, n.d.

		Smith, William Jay, 1959, 1970, 1977-1992

BOX 68		Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1966-1990, n.d.

		Spence, Muriel, 1982-1987, n.d.

		Sprague, Morteza D., 1943, 1952-1967, n.d.

		State Department, 1937, 1955, 1963-1967, 1974-1975

		State University of New York, Albany, N.Y., and other locations, 1963-1984, n.d.

		Stavis, Barrie, 1982-1988

		Steegmuller, Francis, and Steegmuller family, 1947-1958, 1971, 1979-1986, 1994, n.d.

		Stein, Edwin and Gretchen, 1947-1959, 1979, n.d.

		Stepto, Robert B., 1976-1984

		Stern, Richard, and family, 1960-1968, 1975, n.d.

		Stevens, Roger L. and Christine, 1970, 1976-1978, 1989-1993, n.d.

BOX 69		Steveson, Vivian E., 1931-1936, 1964, 1991, n.d.
			(4 folders)

		Stewart, James E., 1972-1992, n.d.

		Stokowski, Leopold, 1969-1970

		"S-Sc" miscellaneous, 1943, 1952-1993, n.d.
			(3 folders)

BOX 70		"Se-Sp" miscellaneous, 1937-1995, n.d.
			(9 folders)

BOX 71		"St-Sz" miscellaneous, 1937-1994, n.d.
			(6 folders)

		Tamm, Sylvia, 1958-1970, n.d.

		Tate, Ethel, 1936

		Taylor, Frank E., 1944-1950, 1959-1964, 1976, n.d.

		Tomorrow, 1943-1944

		Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., 1952-1989

BOX 72		"T" miscellaneous, 1937-1946, 1952-1994, n.d.
			(7 folders)

		Ullian, Edith and Lew, 1954-1956, n.d.

BOX 73		University of California, Berkeley, Calif., and other locations, 1957, 1963-1989

		University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., 1959-1980, n.d.

		University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1966-1969, 1977, 1983, n.d.

		University of Mississippi, University, Miss., 1976-1987

		University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., and other locations, 1962-1970, 1979-1983, n.d.

		University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., 1965-1973, n.d.

		University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., and other locations, 1963-1972, 1978, n.d.

BOX 74		"U" miscellaneous, 1953-1993, n.d.
			(7 folders)

BOX 75		Van Lanschot, W.C.J.M. ("Bib"), 1956-1958, n.d.

		Viking Press, 1945, 1954-1969, n.d.

		"V" miscellaneous, 1944-1945, 1954-1983, 1989-1991, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Warren, Robert Penn, 1953-1990, n.d.

		Weaver, Edith and Richard, 1952-1967, n.d.

		Weisberg, Bernard and Lois, 1962-1968, 1975-1980, 1988, n.d.

		Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., 1962-1966, 1974-1977, 1986

		Whitby, Malcolm, 1930-1949, n.d.

		Whittaker, Joseph, 1971-1977, n.d.

		Wiig, Francesca, 1967-1981, n.d.

		Wilbur, Charlee and Richard, 1962-1987, n.d.

		William Morris Agency

			1943, 1953-1955, 1964-1968

BOX 76			1969-1993, n.d.

		Williams, Walter B., 1934-1944, n.d.

		Wilson, Ed, 1974-1990, n.d.

		Wright, John S., 1981-1991, n.d.

		Wright, Richard and Ellen, 1937-1953, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Wright, Thew and Kit, 1966-1971, 1984, 1990-1991, n.d.

BOX 77		"W-Wk" miscellaneous, 1936-1994, n.d.
			(8 folders)

BOX 78		"Wm-Wy" miscellaneous, 1940-1994, n.d.
			(3 folders)

		"X-Y" miscellaneous, 1938, 1947-1994, n.d.

		"Z" miscellaneous, 1940, 1960-1978, 1986-1990, n.d.

		Unidentified

			1933-1969
				(5 folders)

BOX 79			1970-1995, n.d.
				(5 folders)

BOX 80-94	Organizations File, 1939-1994, n.d.
		Correspondence, reports, and printed matter relating to Ellison's participation in professional and social organizations as an officer, trustee, or advisor.
		Arranged alphabetically by name of organization and chronologically therein.

BOX 80		American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, N.Y.

			1964-1994
				(6 folders)

BOX 81			Undated
				(2 folders)

		American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, 1955-1960, 1971-1986, 1992-1994, n.d.

		American Committee for Cultural Freedom, 1956

		American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, 1967-1969, 1976, n.d.

		American Scholar, 1955, 1961-1969, 1976-1981, n.d.

		Associated Councils of the Arts, 1965-1974, n.d.

		Association of American Publishers, 1979

		Authors Guild, 1963-1973, 1984-1986, n.d.

		Authors League of America, 1939, 1974-1975, 1985-1988

		Bennington College, Bennington, Vt., 1955-1959, 1967-1977, 1982-1989, 1994, n.d.
			(2 folders)

BOX 82		Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., Creative Arts Awards, 1971-1972, n.d.

		Carnegie Commission on Educational Television, 1965-1968, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York, N.Y., 1987-1993, n.d.

		Century Association

			1954, 1964-1994
				(5 folders)

BOX 83			Undated
				(2 folders)

		Citizens Committee for Peace with Freedom in Vietnam, 1967-1968, n.d.

		Citizens for Humphrey, 1963-1968, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

			1968-1976
				(4 folders)

BOX 84			1977-1994, n.d.
				(7 folders)

BOX 85		Commission on Negro History and Culture, 1967-1968, n.d.

		Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, 1975-1982, 1988-1990, n.d.

		Educational Broadcasting Corp., 1968-1979, n.d.

		Educational Development Center, Newton, Mass., 1968, 1974

		Fellowship of Southern Writers, 1988-1993

		Ford Foundation, 1958-1972, 1979, 1984, n.d.

		Foundation for the Arts, Religion, and Culture, 1962-1970, n.d.

		Franklin Delano Roosevelt Centennial Commission, 1981-1984, n.d.

		Franklin Library, 1976-1986, n.d.
			(2 folders)

BOX 86		Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass., 1967-1988, n.d.

		Harlem School of the Arts, New York, N.Y., 1980-1993, n.d.

		Holy Land Conservation Fund, 1972-1973, n.d.

		Hudson Institute, Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., 1970-1975, 1982-1991

		Institute for Natural Philosophy, Princeton, N.J., 1979-1981

		Institute of Jazz Studies, New York, N.Y., 1953-1955

		International Rescue Committee, 1951, 1964-1994, n.d.
			(4 folders)

BOX 87		John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 1962-1992, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., 1965-1976, 1987, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		League of American Writers, 1939-1942, n.d.

		Library of Congress, 1962-1976, 1982-1983, n.d.
			(2 folders) See also Container 100, "Hidden Name and Complex Fate"

		Meharry Medical College Fund, 1977-1984, n.d.

BOX 88		Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y., 1975-1993, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Modern Language Association of America, 1965-1976, 1983-1992

		Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., 1963-1987, n.d.

		Museum of Broadcasting, New York, N.Y., 1979-1980, n.d.

		Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y., 1964-1967, 1975, n.d.

		Museum of the City of New York, New York, N.Y., 1970-1994, n.d.

		NAACP

			ca. 1942, 1954-1955, 1961-1971
				(2 folders)

BOX 89			1972-1994, n.d.
				(2 folders)

		National Book Foundation

			1953-1976, 1988-1989
				(6 folders)

BOX 90			1990-1992, n.d.

		National Citizens' Committee for Public Television, 1967-1974, n.d.

		National Council on the Arts, 1964-1989, n.d.
			(4 folders)

		National Endowment for the Arts, 1966, 1975-1992, n.d.
			(2 folders)

BOX 91		National Endowment for the Humanities, 1972-1980, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		National Medical Fellowships, 1984, n.d.

		National Negro Congress, 1940, n.d.

		National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1972-1978, 1984

		New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y., 1965-1988, n.d.
			(6 folders)

BOX 92		New York Public Library, New York, N.Y., 1947, 1953, 1966-1992, n.d.
			(3 folders)

		Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, R.I., 1955-1958, n.d.

		Oklahoma Ambassador Corps, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1966-1969, 1990

		Ossabaw Foundation, 1971-1982, n.d.

		P.E.N.

			1952-1958
				(2 folders)

BOX 93			1959-1992, n.d.
				(4 folders)

		Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., 1965-1972, n.d.

		Society for the Arts, Religion, and Contemporary Culture, 1965-1972, 1983, n.d.

		University of California, La Jolla, Calif., and other locations, 1975-1982, n.d.

		Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C., 1964, 1972-1989, n.d.
			(2 folders)

BOX 94		WNET/Thirteen, New York, N.Y., 1968-1986, 1992-1993, n.d.
			(4 folders)

		Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1964-1988, n.d.
			(3 folders)

BOX 95-169	Writings File, 1935-1995, n.d.
		Drafts of essays, novels, reviews, short stories, and other material written by Ellison. Correspondence and material relating to the production, publicity, and reception of his works are included. Dates in parentheses in the container list refer to the publication date; other dates refer to the period covered by the material in the folder.
		Arranged alphabetically by type of work and alphabetically by title therein.

BOX 95		Essays and essay collections

			"Adventures of an Unintentional New Yorker," n.d.

			"The American Artist and His Audience" (1977), 1994

			American Civilization: a Portrait from the Twentieth Century (1972), unpublished chapter, 1968-1970

			American Negro Congress, ca. 1940

			"The Art of Fiction: An Interview," 1970

			"As the Spirit Moves Mahalia," 1958, 1969

			Author's statement, Attacks of Taste, 1971

			"Camp Lost Colony," 1940

			"Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke"

				Correspondence, drafts, and partial drafts, 1957, n.d.

				Draft fragments, n.d.

				Notes, n.d.

			"The Charlie Christian Story," 1958

			"Charlie Houston," n.d.

			"A Congress Jim Crow Didn't Attend," 1940

			"The Constitution as Ground or Scene for the Enactment of the Drama of American Democracy," n.d.

			Down Home, with Bob Adelman, 1969-1972, n.d.

			Editorial comments

				General, ca. 1937, 1970, n.d.

BOX 96				Negro Quarterly, 1942-1944, n.d.
					(2 folders)

			"February" (1955), ca. 1937-1938, 1955, n.d.

			"Flamenco," 1954

			Going to the Territory (1986)

				"An Extravagance of Laughter" See also Container 99, "Going to the Territory," and Container 103, "New York, 1936"

					First draft, ca. 1985

					Edited draft, 1985

					Partial drafts, ca. 1985

BOX 97					Work folder, ca. 1985
						(2 folders)

				Contract, 1984

				Correspondence, 1984-1987, n.d.

				Printer's setting copy, 1986
					(3 folders)

BOX 98				Galleys

					Author's edited version, 1986
						(2 folders)

					Master set

						First pass, 1986
							(3 folders)

BOX 99						Second pass, 1986
							(3 folders)

				Inscriptions and mailing lists, 1986-1987, n.d.

				Miscellany, 1985-1987, n.d.

				Reviews, 1986-1987, n.d.

			"Going to the Territory," Carleton Miscellany: A Review of Literature and the Liberal Arts, 1980 See also Containers 96-97, Going to the Territory, "An Extravagance of Laughter"

			"The Golden Age, Time Past" (1959), 1958-1961, 1972, 1983, n.d.

BOX 100			"Harlem Is Nowhere" (1964), 1947-1948, n.d.
				(3 folders)

			"Harlem Twenty-Four Hours After--Peace and Quiet Reign," 1943

			Hemingway, Ernest, unfinished essay, ca. 1940

			The hero in literature, n.d.

			"Hidden Name and Complex Fate: A Writer's Experience in the U.S.," 1964 See also Container 87, Library of Congress

			"Homage to Duke Ellington on His Birthday" (1969), 1969-1970

			"Imprisoned in Words," 1946-1947, n.d.

BOX 101			"Indivisible Man" (1970), 1970-1973, n.d.

			"James Armistead Lafayette" (1974), 1974-1976, n.d.

			"Let Us Consider the Harlem Crime Wave," ca. 1943

			"The Little Man at Chehaw Station" (1977)

				Drafts and partial drafts, n.d.
					(2 folders)

				Miscellany, 1976-1978, n.d.

			"Living with Music," 1955

			"Minority Provincialism as a Problem in Creative Writing," n.d.

BOX 102			Miscellaneous notes, 1943, 1953-1991, n.d.
				(6 folders)

BOX 103			"The Myth of the Flawed White Southerner" (1968), 1967-1969, n.d.

			New American left wing writers, ca. 1935

			"New York, 1936," 1936 See also Containers 96-97, Going to the Territory, "An Extravagance of Laughter"

			"Notes on the American Language and Literature"

				Drafts and draft fragments, 1970, n.d.
					(4 folders)

BOX 104				Notes and research material, 1970, n.d.

			"The Novel as a Function of American Democracy" (1967), 1967, n.d.

			"On Becoming a Writer" (1965), 1964-1965

			On Being Black: Writings By Afro-Americans from Frederick Douglass to the Present, 1970

			"On Being the Target of Discrimination," 1989

			"On Birdwatching Bird and Jazz" (1962), 1962, n.d.

			"Perspective of Literature" (1976), 1976-1977

			"Philippine Writers Report," 1941

			"Ralph Ellison: Notre Lutte Nous Proclamé à la Fois 'Nègres et Americains,'" Preuves (1958), 1957, 1969

			"Recent Negro Fiction" (1941), 1941, n.d.
				(2 folders)

			"Rejoiner" (1964) See also Container 108, "The World and the Jug"

				Drafts and draft fragments, n.d.

				Miscellany, 1964-1969, n.d.

				Notes, n.d.

			"Remembering Jimmy," 1958

BOX 105			"Remembering Richard Wright" (1984), 1983-1984, n.d. See also Container 174, Lectures, 1971, 18 July

			"Richard Wright and Negro Fiction," 1941

			"Richard Wright's Blues" (1945), 1945, n.d.

				Drafts and partial drafts

				Draft fragments and notes

			"Romare Bearden: Paintings and Projections" (1970), 1969-1970, 1985

			"The Shadow and the Act" (1949), 1949-1950, n.d.

			Shadow and Act (1964)

				Contracts, 1964-1968

				Correspondence, 1964-1978

				Drafts

					"Introduction," n.d.

					" An American Dilemma: A Review," 1944, n.d.

BOX 106					"Twentieth Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity," ca. 1946, 1953

					Miscellaneous text, 1964-1966, n.d.

				Miscellany, 1964-1967, 1995, n.d.

				Reviews, 1964-1967, n.d.

				Royalty statements, 1966-1974

			"Society, Morality, and the Novel," The Living Novel (1957), 1956-1963, n.d.
				(3 folders)

			"Speaking for You: Ralph Ellison's Cultural Vision" (1987), 1981-1988 See also Container 171, Speeches, 1975, 21 June

			"The Swing to Stereo," 1958

BOX 107			"Tape, Disks, and Coexistence," ghostwritten by Ellison, 1955

			"Tell It Like It Is, Baby" (1965)

				Drafts, 1965-1969, 1990, n.d.
					(4 folders)

				Galleys, notes, and general material, 1965-1969, 1990, n.d.

			"Three Southern Novels," 1944, n.d.

			"Twentieth Century Writing and the Black Mask of Humanity" (1953), 1946, 1953 See also Container 172, Lectures, 1953, 3-5 Aug.

BOX 108			Unidentified fragments, n.d.
				(2 folders)

			"The Uses of History in Fiction," with William Styron, Robert Penn Warren, and C. Vann Woodward, 1969 See also Container 170, Speeches, 1968, 6 Nov.

			"The Way It Is," 1942

			"What America Would Be Like Without Blacks," 1970
				(2 folders)

			"What's Wrong with the American Novel?" 1955

			"When Does a Black Join the Middle Class? 'Not When He Has a Good Paying Job,'" 1975

			"The World and the Jug" (1963) See also Container 104, "Rejoiner"

				Correspondence, 1963-1964, n.d.

				Drafts and draft fragments, n.d.

				Notes, n.d.

BOX 109		Forewords, introductions, and endorsements

			Crane, Stephen, The Red Badge of Courage, 1959-1961, 1988, n.d.
				(3 folders)

			General, 1953-1974, 1981, 1990, n.d.

			Kouwenhoven, John Atlee, The Beer Can by the Highway, 1987-1988, n.d.

			Romare Bearden: Paintings and Projections, The Art Gallery, State University of New York, Albany, N.Y., 1968-1969, n.d.

			Valentine, Charles A., Culture and Poverty, 1967-1968

			Walker, Scott, ed., Buying Time, 1985

BOX 110		Memoirs

			Typescript draft, ca. 1981
				(3 folders)

			Draft fragments, n.d.

			Notes and outlines, 1938, 1968, 1981-1985, n.d.

		Miscellany

			Bibliographies, 1968-1977, 1986, n.d.
				(2 folders)

			Copyrights, 1963-1979, 1989

			Literary criticism about Ellison

				1943-1959

BOX 111				1960-1994
					(7 folders)

BOX 112				Undated
					(2 folders)

			Notes, 1941-1988, n.d. See also Container 142, Invisible Man
				(4 folders)
BOX 113				(3 folders)

			Permissions and reprints

				1956-1970
					(5 folders)

BOX 114				1971-1992, n.d.
					(4 folders)

			Plot ideas, n.d.

			Royalty statements, 1956-1958, 1964-1992 See also Oversize

			Unidentified fragments, ca. 1940, 1963, n.d.
				(3 folders)

BOX 115		Novels

			Airman novel, 1942-1945, n.d.

			Hickman novel

				Contract

				Drafts

					Episodes

						"As Hickman Turned the Corner," n.d.
							(2 folders)

						"Backwacking, A Plea to the Senator," 1976, n.d.

						Bliss and Hickman at the circus, n.d. See also Container 116, Bliss, Body, and Meatwhistle

						Bliss and Hickman at the movies, n.d.

						Bliss and Severin's mother, n.d.

						Bliss and Sister Georgia, n.d.

BOX 116						Bliss and the coffin, n.d.

						Bliss, Body, and Meatwhistle, 1959, 1981, n.d. See also Container 115, Bliss and Hickman at the movies

						Bliss recalls making the movie, n.d.

						Bliss relates tale of Reverend Eatmore, n.d.

						Bliss runs away to the moviehouse, n.d.

						Bliss's kidnapping from church, n.d.

						Briscoe and Silvester in the barbershop, n.d.

						"Cave of the Winds," n.d.

						"Charlee," n.d.

						Cliofus and Miss Janey, n.d.

						Cliofus describes "whooping," n.d.
							(1 folder)
BOX 117							(1 folder)

						"Cliofus Recalling Halloween," n.d.

						Cliofus relates tale of "Big Mama and the Six Little Children" and Russian novel, 1982, n.d.
							(2 folders)

						Cliofus relates tale of castration and the movie scene, n.d.
							(3 folders)
BOX 118							(3 folders)

						Cliofus relates tale of Miss Kindly and the whale, n.d. See also Container 130, "A Song of Innocence"

						Cliofus relates tale of the elephant, 1983, n.d.

						Cliofus talks with McIntyre, n.d.
							(3 folders)

BOX 119						Cliofus talks with Severin, n.d.
							(2 folders)

						"Epigram for Novel," n.d.

						Hickman and his congregation at the Lincoln Memorial, n.d.

						Hickman and McIntyre: "How dare you force yourself into my secrets...," n.d.

						Hickman and Milsap, n.d.
							(2 folders)

						Hickman and Miss Janey, n.d.

						Hickman and the birth of Bliss

							1965, 1976

BOX 120							1985, n.d.

						Hickman and Wilhite at Mister Jessie's, n.d.

							Complete sequences, 1968, n.d.
								(6 folders)

							Detective tells of scam, n.d.

BOX 121							Junk room, ca. 1985, n.d.
								(3 folders)

							Lonnie Barnes's speech, 1972

							Maud, the cross-eyed lady, n.d.

							McMillen speaks to Hickman and Wilhite, 1976, 1990, n.d.

							Miscellaneous scenes, n.d.

							Police interrogate Hickman and Wilhite, n.d.

						Hickman and Wilhite leave the Lincoln Memorial, n.d.

BOX 122						Hickman and Wilhite search for the senator's mistress, n.d.

						Hickman arrives in Oklahoma, ca. 1987, n.d.
							(2 folders)

						Hickman at Mr. Jessie's, n.d.
							(3 folders)

						Hickman dreams about a funeral, n.d.

						Hickman encounters Leroy, n.d
							(2 folders)
BOX 123							(2 folders)

						"Hickman in Paris," 1989

						"Hickman reaches decision to see Janey," n.d.

						"Hickman Reminiscing," n.d.
							(3 folders) See also Container 124, "Ish Is Not a Fish"

						Hickman studies the tapestry, n.d.

BOX 124						Hickman with Bliss at the hospital, n.d.
							(3 folders) See also Container 164, "Night Talk"

						Hickman witnesses the shooting, n.d.

						"Ish Is Not a Fish" and "Reconcilement," n.d. See also Container 123, "Hickman Reminiscing"

						"It Always Breaks Out," n.d.

						"Juneteenth," 1965, n.d.

BOX 125						LeeWillie and the car burning, n.d. See also Container 162, "Cadillac Flambé"

						"Love. Two," 1987-1988, n.d.
							(3 folders)

						McIntyre and Laura, n.d.

						McIntyre at Mister Jessie's, n.d.
							(3 folders)

BOX 126						McIntyre in Salzburg, n.d.

						McIntyre witnesses the shooting, n.d.

						McIntyre's cousin, Gertrude, Buster, and the mother-in-law, n.d.

						"McIntyre's Dream"

							Hitching post boy, n.d.

							Mother Strothers, 1971, n.d.
								(4 folders)

BOX 127							Sam, n.d.
								(2 folders)

						McIntyre's letter from Vannec, n.d.

						"Milsap's Report," n.d.

						Miss Janey tells Hickman about the "smoking" incident, n.d.

						Miss Janey's letter to Hickman, n.d.

						Mother Strothers, n.d.

						Mr. Love New, n.d.

BOX 128						Mr. Love New and Hickman, 1987-1988, n.d.
							(3 folders)

						Mr. Love New and McIntyre, n.d.

						Mr. Love New and Severin, n.d.
							(2 folders)

BOX 129						"Prologue," n.d.
							(5 folders) See also Container 162, "And Hickman Arrives"

						"The Roof, the Steeple, and the People," n.d.

						Senator and the Canadian River hunting party, n.d.

						Senator's delirium, n.d.
							(1 folder)
BOX 130							(2 folders)

						"The Senator's Practical Joke," n.d.

						"The Senator's Secretary," n.d.

						Severin and Cliofus as youths, n.d.

						Severin and Miss Janey, n.d.

						Severin and the shooting of the senator, n.d.

						Severin in Europe, n.d.

						"Severin Remembers," n.d.

						"A Song of Innocence," 1978, n.d. See also Container 118, Cliofus relates tale of Miss Kindly and the whale
							(2 folders)

BOX 131						Sunraider and the old gentleman, n.d.

						Sunraider and the telephones, n.d.

						"Sunraider Remembering," 1983

						"Sunraider Visits a Hospital...," n.d.

						Sunraider's speech on the Senate floor, n.d.

						"They Beat You, Bliss," n.d.

						"Through the Lilt and Tear," 1971, 1978, n.d.
							(3 folders)

						"Uncle Bud with the Portable Radio," 1987, n.d.

						Unidentified pages, n.d.
							(2 folders)

BOX 132					Original typescript

						Book I, Apr. 1972
							(3 folders)

						Book II, 1972
							(3 folders)

BOX 133					Revised typescript

						Book I, July 1972
							(2 folders)

						Book II, July 1972, n.d.
							(3 folders)

					Sequential fragments, 1990-1991, n.d.
						(1 folder)
BOX 134						(6 folders)
BOX 135						(6 folders)
BOX 136						(6 folders)
BOX 137						(6 folders)
BOX 138						(1 folder)

				Notes and notebooks, 1956-1989, n.d.
					(5 folders)
BOX 139					(6 folders)
BOX 140					(7 folders)
BOX 141					(6 folders)

BOX 142			Invisible Man See also Container 113, Miscellaneous notes

				Drafts

					Episodes

						"At Mary's," n.d.
							(2 folders)

						"Bar Scene, Downtown," n.d.

						"Bar Scene, El Toro," n.d.

						"Battle Royal," n.d.

						"Blind Man," n.d.

						"Blues," also titled, "Something about Blues," n.d.

						"Brockaway (Paint Factory)," n.d.

						"Brotherhood," n.d.
							(1 folder)
BOX 143							(5 folders)

						"Brotherhood, Arena Speech," n.d.

						"Brotherhood, Bear in Window," n.d.

						"Brotherhood, Chtonian," n.d.

						"Brotherhood, Clifton," n.d. See also Container 210, Times Square

						"Brotherhood, Fired Tenement," n.d.

						"Brotherhood, Louise," n.d.

BOX 144						"Campus," n.d.
							(2 folders)

						"Chapel," first draft and notes, n.d.

						"Cleo and Mt. Morris Park," n.d.

						"Emerson," n.d.

						"Eviction," n.d.

						"Factory Hospital," n.d.

						"Fat Man on a Bridge," n.d.

						"Golden Day--True Blood," n.d.

						"Harlem," n.d.

						"Hattie and Julius Franklin," n.d.

						"Hospital Alley Scene," also titled, "Nigger, What Kinda Man Am I?" n.d.

						"Hospital and Escape," 1949

						"Hospital and St. Mary's" (in continuity), n.d.
							(2 folders)

BOX 145						"Hospital Scene"

							General, n.d.
								(3 folders)

							Working copy, n.d.

						"Jazz Music," n.d.

						"Leroy's Journal," n.d.

						"Lostness," n.d.

						"Manhole," n.d.

						"Men's House," n.d.

						Miscellaneous scenes, n.d.

						"Money Changers," n.d.

						"New York," first draft and notes, n.d.

						"New York Arrival," n.d.

						"Norton in the Subway," n.d.

						"Old Barbee," n.d.

						"Paint Factory," n.d.

BOX 146						"Perception," original draft titled "Eviction, Priest, Parade, Party, Bank, and Apartment," n.d.
							(2 folders)

						"Priest Scene," n.d.

						"Prologue," n.d.

						"Ras," n.d.

						"Red Robe," n.d.

						"Revenge in Mt. Morris Park," n.d.

						"Rhinehart," n.d.

						"Riot," n.d.

						"Sea Cook," also titled, "One-Eyed Cook," n.d.

						"Sybil," n.d

						"Uncle Charles," n.d.

						"Vet," n.d.

						"Wheelchair," n.d.

						"White Man in Harlem," n.d.

						"Woodridge," n.d.

BOX 147					Original typescript, n.d.
						(6 folders)

BOX 148					Final typescript, n.d.
						(6 folders)

BOX 149					Corrected carbons

						Set 1, n.d.
							(4 folders)

						Set 2, n.d.
							(3 folders)

						Set 3, n.d.
							(1 folder)
BOX 150							(3 folders)

					Preface to the Franklin Library edition, ca. 1980

					Foreword to thirtieth edition, 1982, n.d.
						(3 folders)

					Fragments and partial drafts, 1951, n.d.
						(1 folder)
BOX 151						(5 folders)

					Notes, 1942-1950, n.d.
						(5 folders)
BOX 152						(7 folders)

				Author's first proof, 1951 See also Oversize

BOX 153				Uncorrected proof, 1952

				Blue lines for thirtieth edition, 1982

				Film proposals, 1960-1971, 1978-1990, n.d.
					(2 folders)

				Foreign rights and translations

					1952-1978

BOX 154					1980-1989, n.d.

				Literary agents, 1943-1953, 1989-1990, n.d.

				Opera proposal, 1964-1965

				Publicity, 1952-1953, 1981, 1992-1994, n.d.

				Published editions

					Franklin Library, 1976-1980, n.d.

					New American Library of World Literature, 1951-1971, n.d.

					Random House

						Correspondence, 1947-1988, n.d.
							(2 folders)

						Royalties, 1951-1980 See also Oversize

BOX 155					Westinghouse Learning Corp., 1970-1977, n.d.

				Reviews

					General, 1947-1955, 1964-1971, 1985, n.d.
						(6 folders)

					Scrapbook, 1952
						(2 folders)

BOX 156				Writings by others

					Balmer, Simone, 1968

					Bourrel, Anne-Marie, 1973

					Brown, Daniel Webster, II, 1977

					Ducornet, Guy, 1962

					Giza, Joanne, 1972-1974, n.d.

					Jordet, Brit Harstad, 1969

					Mebane, Mary E., 1961

BOX 157					Miscellaneous authors, 1954, 1961-1982, n.d.
						(6 folders)

					Reith, Emma A., n.d.

BOX 158					Thomas, Gwendolyn A., 1974

					Ulle, Carol H., 1971

BOX 159			Slick novel

				Drafts

					Episodes

						Booker's reveries, n.d.

						"Mister Mac" or "Tale of a Southern Road," n.d.

						Slick and Booker above the drugstore, n.d.

						Slick and Booker hunting, n.d.

						Slick and Bostic, n.d.

						Slick and Callie at the hospital, n.d.

						Slick and Liles, n.d.

						Slick and Lilly-Mae, n.d.

						Slick and Snodgrass, n.d.

				Original typescript, sections I and II, ca. 1939
					(2 folders)

				Miscellaneous pages, ca. 1939

				Notes, n.d.

		Poetry, 1935-1937, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Reviews

			1937-1939

BOX 160			1940-1946
				(10 folders)

BOX 161			1947-1980, n.d.
				(8 folders)

BOX 162		Short stories

			"Afternoon," n.d.

			"And Hickman Arrives," 1959-1960 See also Container 129, "Prologue"

			"Battle Royal," 1947-1948, 1975, n.d.

			"The Birthmark," 1940, n.d.

			"The Black Ball," n.d.

			"Bullfighting," n.d.

			"Butler Boy and the TV Set," n.d.

			"Cadillac Flambé," 1972-1973, 1984 See also Container 125, LeeWillie and the car burning

			"A Coupla Scalped Indians," 1956, n.d.

			"Did You Ever Dream Lucky?" 1953, 1975, 1980, n.d.

			"The Dream," 1941, n.d.
				(3 folders)

BOX 163			"Flying Home," 1944, 1971-1974, 1992, n.d.
				(3 folders)

			"Gann Wilson," n.d.

			"A Gari in Karachi," n.d.

			"Goodnight Irene," n.d.

			"A Hard Time Keeping Up" (posthumous title), n.d.

			"Hymie's Bull" (posthumous title), n.d. See also Oversize

			"I Did Not Learn Their Names," ca. 1940

			"I'm in New York But New York Ain't in Me," n.d.

			"In a Strange Country," also titled, "Black Yank in Britain," 1944, n.d.

BOX 164			"The Initiation," n.d.
				(5 folders)

			"Jake Smith," n.d.

			"The King of the Bingo Game," 1944, 1970-1974, 1980, 1988-1992, n.d.

			"A Lament for Tod Clifton," This Is My Best (1970), 1968-1969

			"Last Day," n.d.

			"Mister Toussan," 1941-1947, 1971, n.d.

			"Myth Mood," ca. 1937

			"Night Talk," 1969 See also Container 124, Hickman with Bliss at the hospital

			"Norman," 1983

			Notes, 1978-1980, 1988-1990, n.d.

BOX 165			"Out of the Hospital and under the Bar," Soon, One Morning (1963), 1961-1968, n.d.

			"Rabid Dog," n.d.

			"The Red Cross at Morriston, Swansea, S.W.," n.d. See also same container, "A Storm of Blizzard Proportions"

			"Sanctuary," n.d.

			"Slick Gonna Learn," 1939

			"A Song of Innocence," 1969-1971

			"A Storm of Blizzard Proportions," 1944, n.d. See also same container, "The Red Cross at Morriston, Swansea, S.W."

			"That I Had the Wings," n.d.
				(3 folders)

			Tillman and Tackhead, n.d.
				(3 folders)

BOX 166			"You Can't Get Around It," n.d.

			Untitled, n.d.
				(3 folders)

		Writings by others

			Bone, Robert, 1972

			Burgest, David R., 1980

			Callahan, John F., 1977, 1995, n.d.

			Crouch, Stanley, 1986, n.d.

BOX 167			Eckels, Jon, 1972

			Hyman, Stanley Edgar, 1946, 1970, n.d.

			Jenkins, Betty, and Susan Phillis, 1973

			Long, Charles H., 1971-1976

			Lucas, John, 1981-1988

			McKay, W. Colin, 1993

			McPherson, James Alan, n.d.

			Miscellaneous

				1936-1989
					(2 folders)

BOX 168				Undated
					(2 folders)

			Mooreland, Marc, 1969-1974

			Murray, Albert, n.d.

			Oden, Gloria C., 1976

			Piel, Gerard, 1974

			Rodman, Selden, 1971

			Schor, Edith, 1973
				(2 folders)

BOX 169			Scott, Nathan A., 1963-1966, 1979-1989, n.d.
				(2 folders)

			Stuckey, Elma, 1975

			Thomas, Bettye J., 1986

			Thorne, Hillery C., Jr., 1977

			Ward, Theodore, n.d.

			Webb, Constance, 1966-1967

			Wright, Richard, n.d.

			Yust, Larry, 1971, n.d.

BOX 170-178	Speeches, Lectures, and Interviews, 1945-1993, n.d.
		Texts of speeches, lectures, and interviews along with related correspondence, notes, and printed matter.
		Arranged by type of material and chronologically therein.

BOX 170		Speeches

			1953, 27 Jan., acceptance speech, National Book Award, New York, N.Y., 1953, n.d.

			1963, 5 Sept., "What These Children Are Like," Seminar on Education for Culturally Different Youth, 1963-1965, n.d.
				(3 folders)

			1964, 1 Apr., National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, N.Y., 1964

			1965

				[May], presentation of Howells Medal to John Cheever, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, N.Y., n.d.

				Aug.-Sept., scripts for National Educational Television, "Arts USA: Music," 1965

			1966, 26 May, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, N.Y., 1966

			1968, 6 Nov., "The Uses of History in Fiction," Southern Historical Association, New Orleans, La., 1968 See also Container 108, "The Uses of History in Fiction"

			1970, 23 Feb., remarks on Duke Ellington, NAACP, New York, N.Y., 1969-1970, n.d.

			1972, 4 June, commencement address, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., 1972, n.d.
				(2 folders)

BOX 171			1974, 12 June, address to class of 1949, Associated Harvard Alumni, Cambridge, Mass., 1974, 1992 See also Container 214, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

			1975

				10 May, "The Little Man Behind the Stove," Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, Pa., 1974-1978, n.d.
					(4 folders)

				21 June, dedication speech, Ralph Ellison Branch, Metropolitan Library System, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1975

			1976

				28 Apr., "American Music: A Personal Glance after Two Hundred Years," Society for the Libraries, New York University, New York, N.Y., 1976

				30 Apr., "Perspective of Literature," School of Law, New York University, New York, N.Y., 1975-1976, n.d.

			1978, 17 May, introduction of newly-elected members, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, N.Y., n.d.

BOX 172			1979, 19 Sept., Ralph Ellison Festival, Brown University, Providence, R.I., 1979-1980, n.d.
				(2 folders)

			1983, 18 May, presentation of Gold Medal for Fiction to Bernard Malamud, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, N.Y., 1966-1973, 1979-1983, n.d.
				(2 folders)

			1988, 6 Apr., "Bearden," Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York, N.Y., 1988

			1992, "Intellectuals and Writers Since the Thirties," Partisan Review conference, 1992, n.d.

			1993, Apr., American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1993

		Lectures

			1945, 1 Nov., "American Negro Writing, A Problem of Identity," Bennington College, Bennington, Vt., 1945, n.d.

			1953

				27 May, "Invisible Man," Hunter College, New York, N.Y., 1953

				3-5 Aug., class on the contemporary novel, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1952-1954, n.d. See also Container 107, "Twentieth Century Writing and the Black Mask of Humanity"

BOX 173			1954

				Aug.-Sept., "The Role of the Novel in Creating the American Experience," Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, Salzburg, Austria, 1953-1955, 1961-1966, 1976, n.d.
					(4 folders)

				Sept.-Oct., Symposium on North American Studies, El Escorial, Spain, 1954

			1969

				26 Mar., lecture on Invisible Man, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., 1968-1974, n.d.
					(3 folders)

BOX 174				18 Apr., "The Negro Writer: His Contributions, His Problems," Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., 1968-1969

			1971, 18 July, "Remembering Richard Wright," University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1971-1972, n.d.
				(2 folders) See also Container 105, "Remembering Richard Wright"

			Undated

				Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.

				"Hidden Name and Complex Fate," Library of Congress

				"The Meaning of American Diversity," Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio

				New York University, New York, N.Y.
					(2 folders)

				University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

		Interviews

			1952, Denver Post, Denver, Colo., 1952

			1953, 8 Feb., "Faulkner, The Bear," radio broadcast, Irving Howe and Lyman Bryson, 1953

BOX 175			1955, "Ralph Ellison, The Art of Fiction," Paris Review, Spring 1955
				(3 folders)

			1960, 11 May, "A Talk with Ralph Ellison," Richard G. Stern, 1960-1961, n.d.

			1964, "An Interview with Ralph Ellison," Allen Geller, Tamarack Review, Summer 1964

			1965

				May, Umbra, 1965-1966, n.d.
					(2 folders)

				4-18 Nov., National Educational Television, 1965

				Pierre Dommergues, 1965-1967

				Richard Kostelanetz, 1965, 1989, n.d.

BOX 176				Who Speaks for the Negro? Robert Penn Warren, 1964-1965, n.d.
					(2 folders)

			1966

				1 Feb., National Educational Television, 1966

				30 Aug., United States Senate, Subcommittee on Reorganization of the Committee on Government Operations, 1966-1967, n.d.
					(3 folders)

			1967

				Mar., "A Very Stern Discipline," Harper's Magazine, 1966-1967, n.d.
					(4 folders)

BOX 177				May, America (Russian edition), 1967

				Radio broadcast, WGBH, Boston, Mass., Richard H. Lee, 1966-1967

			1969, "Ralph Ellison, La Invisibilidad del Negro y el Pluralismo Cultural," Esther Tusquets, Triunfo, Spring 1969

			1970, "The Scholar's Bookshelf," radio broadcast, John Graham, 1970-1973, n.d.

			1971, 30 Sept., "Ralph Ellison, 20 Years After," David L. Carson, 1971-1974, n.d.
				(3 folders)

			1972

				Dec., "Interview with Ralph Ellison," John O'Brien

			ca. 1972, John Hersey, 1972-1973, n.d.

			1976

				27 Jan., "Interview with Ralph Ellison," Ron Welburn, Grackle, 1976-1977

				7 Mar., "Ralph Ellison: An Interview," Michael S. Harper and Robert B. Stepto, 1975-1977, n.d.
					(2 folders)

BOX 178				"An Interview with Ralph Ellison: Visible Man," Howard Sage, Pulp, Summer 1976

				Ishmael Reed, Steve Cannon, and Quincy Troupe, Yardbird Reader, 1976-1978, n.d.
					(2 folders)

			1982

				Oct., Playboy, 1982

				No month, John Hersey, 1982, n.d.

			Undated, "An Interview with Ralph Ellison," N. A. Samstag and Ted Cohen, n.d.

		Miscellaneous notes and fragments, ca. 1940, 1954-1960, 1966-1969, n.d.
			(4 folders)

BOX 179-211	Reference File, 1901-1995, n.d.
		Printed matter, primarily newspaper and magazine clippings, on topics of interest to Ellison, such as jazz, blues, photography, art, and prominent individuals.
		Arranged alphabetically by subject.

BOX 179		A. Philip Randolph Institute, New York, N.Y., 1969-1972, n.d.

		Abortion, 1983, 1993

		Africa, 1943-1989 See also Oversize

		African-American leadership, 1943-1981

		African-American organizations, 1972-1989

		African-American studies, 1917, 1940-1994, n.d.
			(2 folders) See also Oversize

		American Indians, 1949-1993, n.d. See also Oversize

		Animals, 1936-1982, n.d.

		Anti-Semitism, 1939-1992, n.d.

BOX 180		Architecture and interior design, 1948-1987, n.d.

		Art

			African art, 1970-1992, n.d.

			Catalogs, 1947, 1959-1982, n.d.
				(2 folders)

			Institute of Negro Art, 1929

			Miscellany, 1937-1991, n.d.
				(2 folders)
BOX 181				(1 folder)

			Sculpture, 1951-1973, n.d.

		Audio equipment and technology, 1940-1958, n.d.

		Biographical information

			Agee, James, 1949-1991, n.d.

			Ali, Muhammad (Cassius Clay), 1963-1969

			Anderson, Marian, 1958-1993, n.d.

			Armstrong, Louis, 1954-1983

			"A" miscellaneous, 1949-1989, n.d.

			Baker, Josephine, 1950-1994

			Baldwin, James, 1953, 1971-1994, n.d.

			Baraka, Imamu Amiri (LeRoi Jones), 1964-1968, 1983-1990, n.d.

BOX 182			Barry, Marion, 1988-1990

			Bearden, Romare, 1967-1981, 1991, n.d.

			Bellow, Saul, 1953, 1970-1987

			Berryman, John, 1972, 1982

			Branam, Virgil, 1973

			Brown, Lewis Thomas, 1979-1980

			Burke, Kenneth, 1959-1987, n.d.

			"B" miscellaneous, 1935-1990, n.d.
				(3 folders)

			Chambers, Whittaker, and Alger Hiss, 1930, 1948-1952, 1970, n.d.

BOX 183			Cheever, John, 1968-1982, n.d.

			Clarke, Kenneth Bancroft, 1973-1985, n.d.

			Cleaver, Eldridge, 1968-1976

			Cowley, Malcolm, 1939-1947, 1973, 1989

			Crouch, Stanley, 1980-1991, n.d.

			"C" miscellaneous, 1936-1993, n.d.
				(3 folders)

			Davis, Angela Yvonne, 1970-1971

BOX 184			Dawson, William L. and Cecile, 1934-1936, 1963-1993, n.d.
				(2 folders)

			Deren, Maya, 1948, n.d.

			"D" miscellaneous, 1934-1991, n.d.
				(3 folders)

			Einstein, Albert, 1955-1972

			Eliot, T. S., 1949-1954, 1961-1966

BOX 185			Ellington, Duke, 1944-1976, 1992, n.d.
				(2 folders)

			"E" miscellaneous, 1946-1992, n.d.

			Faulkner, William, 1946-1993, n.d.
				(3 folders)

			Fiedler, Leslie A., 1951-1964

BOX 186			Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 1945-1970

			Forrest, Leon, 1972-1988, n.d.

			"F" miscellaneous, 1945-1988, n.d.
				(2 folders)

			Gandhi, Mahatma, 1946-1948, n.d.

			Garfield, John, 1952

			Gide, André, 1944-1951

			"G" miscellaneous, 1944-1993, n.d.
				(2 folders)

			Hearst, William Randolph, 1951

BOX 187			Hemingway, Ernest, 1935-1978, n.d.
				(5 folders) See also Oversize

BOX 188			Hersey, John, 1985-1987, n.d.

			Himes, Chester B., 1945-1947, 1965, 1989, n.d.

			Hiss, Alger See Container 182, Chambers, Whittaker

			Holiday, Billie, 1991, n.d. See also Oversize

			Horne, Lena, 1944-1986

			Hughes, Langston, 1944, 1953, 1961, 1983-1988

			Hunter-Gault, Charlayne, 1961-1970

			Hyman, Stanley Edgar, 1946-1978, n.d.
				(4 folders) See also Container 189, Jackson, Shirley

BOX 189			"H" miscellaneous, 1931-1993, n.d.
				(3 folders)

			"I" miscellaneous, 1947-1974, 1986-1989

			Jackson, George, 1971

			Jackson, Jesse, 1983-1989, n.d.

			Jackson, Shirley, 1948-1965 See also Container 188, Hyman, Stanley Edgar

			James, Harry, 1945-1972, n.d.

			Johnson, James Weldon, 1927-1950, n.d.

BOX 190			Johnson, Lyndon B. and Lady Bird, 1963-1990, n.d.

			Johnston, Alva, 1950, n.d.

			Joyce, James, 1939-1984, n.d.

			"J" miscellaneous, 1934, 1945-1989, n.d.

			Kazin, Alfred, 1946-1954, 1973, n.d.

			Kennedy, John F., 1961-1964, 1993

			Kierkegaard, Soren, 1945-1946

			Koestler, Arthur, 1945-1952, 1984, n.d.

			Kostelanetz, Richard, 1968-1972, n.d.

BOX 191			"K" miscellaneous, 1947-1990, n.d.
				(2 folders)

			Lerner, Max, 1944-1955

			Lincoln, Abraham, 1955, n.d.

			Long, Earl K. and Huey Pierce, 1959-1960, n.d.

			Louis, Joe, 1936-1937, 1946-1981, n.d.

			"L" miscellaneous, 1945-1993, n.d.
				(2 folders)

BOX 192			MacDonald, Dwight, 1952-1954, 1964, 1975

			Mailer, Norman, 1960-1976, n.d.

			Malraux, André, 1934-1976, n.d.
				(2 folders)

			Marquand, John P., 1952

			Marshall, Thurgood, 1961-1991

			Matisse, Henri, 1948-1955, 1991

			McCarthy, Mary, 1950-1954, 1972, 1989

			McKelway, St. Clair, 1952-1953, 1976

			Miller, Arthur, 1944-1972, 1987

BOX 193			Mitchell, Joe, 1944, 1951-1956, 1964

			Moore, Marianne, 1946-1954, 1972

			Morisey, A. Alexander, 1966-1972, n.d.

			Morris, Willie, 1965-1973

			Morrison, Toni, 1981-1994, n.d.

			Motherwell, Robert, 1948-1976

			"M" miscellaneous, 1934-1939, 1945-1993, n.d.
				(4 folders)
BOX 194				(1 folder)

			Nixon, Richard M., 1968-1975, n.d.

			"N" miscellaneous, 1952-1989

			"O" miscellaneous, 1943-1990

			Parker, Charles, 1955, n.d.

			Parks, Gordon, 1949-1990, n.d.

			Picasso, Pablo, 1970-1993, n.d.

			Powell, Adam Clayton, 1958-1972

			Price, Leontyne, 1955-1966, 1982

			"P" miscellaneous, 1939, 1953-1992, n.d.
				(2 folders)

BOX 195			"Q" miscellaneous, 1978, 1989

			Randolph, A. Philip, 1989, n.d.

			Robeson, Paul, 1967-1973, n.d.

			Robinson, Jackie, 1945-1985

			Robinson, Sugar Ray, 1951-1952, 1989

			Roethke, Theodore, 1963-1969, n.d.

			Rustin, Bayard, 1970-1987

			"R" miscellaneous, 1945-1989, n.d.
				(2 folders)

			Scott, Nathan A., 1959-1969, n.d.

			Spady, James G., 1983-1987

BOX 196			Steegmuller, Francis, 1948-1958, 1973

			Stepto, Robert B., 1975-1983, n.d.

			Stevens, Roger L., 1976

			Stewart, James E., 1958-1987, n.d.

			"S" miscellaneous, 1933-1990, n.d.
				(3 folders)

BOX 197			"T" miscellaneous, 1947-1991, n.d.

			"U" miscellaneous, 1950, 1994

			"V" miscellaneous, 1954-1993

			Warren, Robert Penn, 1965-1990, n.d.
				(2 folders)

			Washington, Booker T., 1945, 1973, 1984, n.d.

			Wertham, Frederic, 1946-1974, n.d.

			Wideman, John E., 1973-1989, n.d.

			Wilbur, Richard, 1963-1987

			Wright, John S., 1985, n.d.

			Wright, Richard, 1938-1969, 1977-1993, n.d.
				(1 folder)
BOX 198				(3 folders)

			"W" miscellaneous, 1949-1990, n.d.
				(3 folders)

			Young, Whitney, 1970-1971

			"Y-Z" miscellaneous, 1941-1954, 1970-1992, n.d.

BOX 199		Black Panthers, 1969-1973, n.d.

		Booksellers and publishers, 1970-1994, n.d.

		British royal family, 1936, 1947-1956, 1972

		Burma, 1960, 1966-1994, n.d.

		Capote, Truman, masked ball, 1966-1967

		Caribbean countries, 1945-1984

		Caucus of Minority Executives in Media, 1986

		Chicago, Ill., 1938-1940, 1951-1987, n.d.

		China, 1948-1958, 1972, n.d.

BOX 200		Cinema, 1934-1992, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Circus, 1947-1949, 1970

		Civil rights, 1958-1988

		Colleges, schools, and universities, 1932-1992, n.d.

		Communism, 1931-1991

		Computers, 1982-1983, n.d.

		Crime

			Florida bombings, 1951-1952

			Irwin, Walter, 1951-1952

			Miscellany, 1931-1992, n.d.

		Dance

			Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, 1969-1974

			American Ballet Theatre, n.d.

BOX 201			Harlem Dance Foundation, 1979-1982, n.d.

			Miscellany, 1949-1990, n.d.

		Discrimination, 1940-1984, n.d.

		Drugs and drug use, 1960-1989, n.d.

		Education, 1940-1992, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Europe, 1938, 1945-1958, 1971, n.d. See also Oversize

		Fashion, 1941-1969, n.d.

		First Amendment, 1991

BOX 202		France, 1944-1994, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Fund-raising, 1949, 1955, 1973-1987, n.d.

		Harlem, New York, N.Y., 1946-1991, n.d.

		Health, 1941-1990, n.d.
			(3 folders)

BOX 203		Jonestown, Guyana, People's Temple, 1978-1983

		Juvenile delinquency, 1946-1959, n.d.

		Ku Klux Klan, 1948-1993, n.d.

		La Farge Clinic, New York, N.Y., 1946-1953, n.d.

		Labor, 1935-1949, 1970, 1989, n.d.

		Libraries, 1970-1991

		Literary publications, 1936-1993
			(2 folders)

		Lynchings, 1949-1955

		Middle East, 1962-1983

		Military

			African-American soldiers, 1940-1993, n.d.
				(2 folders)

BOX 204			Armed conflict

				Civil War, U.S., 1951-1958, n.d.

				Korean War, 1950-1958

				Revolutionary War, American, 1950

				Vietnam War, 1947-1982, n.d.
					(2 folders)

			Nuclear weapons, 1955, 1981

		Minority publications, 1935-1992
			(2 folders)

BOX 205		Miscellany, 1944-1987, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Music

			African-American influence and perspective, 1938-1991, n.d.

			Jazz, 1950-1992, n.d.
				(3 folders)

BOX 206			Miscellany, 1939-1990

			Opera, 1963-1983, n.d.

			Recorders, 1955-1958, n.d.

			Sheet music, 1941-1959, n.d.

		NAACP, 1974-1984

		National Urban Fellows, 1980

		National Urban League, 1942-1970, n.d.

		New York, N.Y., 1947-1990, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		News reporting, 1972-1985

BOX 207		Oklahoma, 1948-1990, n.d.
			(3 folders)

		Photography, 1937-1955, 1984, n.d. See also Oversize

		Plainfield, Mass., 1968-1978

		Politics, 1944-1992, n.d.
			(2 folders)

BOX 208		Prisons

			Attica, N.Y., 1971-1972

			Miscellany, 1971-1975

		Radicals, 1970-1975

		Religion, 1940-1993, n.d.

		Science, 1982-1983, n.d.

		Segregation, 1940-1989, n.d.
			(3 folders)

		Sex, 1935-1966, 1982

		Southern United States, 1948-1990, n.d.

BOX 209		Sports

			Boxing, 1938-1971, n.d.

			Bullfighting, 1947-1953

			Miscellany, 1936-1984, n.d.

		Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, N.Y., 1978-1985, n.d.

		Teachers' guides, 1973, n.d.

		Television

			Miscellany, 1951-1993

			National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting, 1971

			Public broadcasting, 1966-1975, n.d.

		Theater, 1901, 1934-1990, n.d.
			(1 folder)
BOX 210			(2 folders)

		Times Square, New York, N.Y., dancing doll vendors (Clifton's dolls), 1964 See also Container 143, "Brotherhood, Clifton"

		Travel, 1943-1987

		United States Supreme Court, 1947, 1971-1991, n.d.

		Watergate Affair, 1972-1975
			(3 folders)

		Western civilization, 1947-1950, 1971, n.d.
			(2 folders)

BOX 211		Writers and writing, 1939-1995, n.d.
			(2 folders)

BOX 211-219	Miscellany, 1904-1994, n.d.
		Appointment books and calendars, awards and citations, honorary degrees, invitations to social, cultural, and charitable events, mailing addresses, notes, printed ephemera, and memorabilia.
		Arranged alphabetically by type of material and chronologically therein.

BOX 211		Addresses, 1953, n.d.
			(4 folders)
BOX 212			(4 folders)

		Appointment calendars

			1944-1953
				(2 folders)

BOX 213			1957-1965, 1975-1978, 1985-1993
				(4 folders) See also Oversize

		Awards, citations, and honorary degrees

			Brown University, Providence, R.I., 1979-1980

			Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France, 1968-1969, n.d.

			Chicago Defender, Chicago, Ill., 1953

BOX 214			City University of New York, New York, N.Y., 1992-1993, n.d.

			College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., 1972 See also Oversize

			Friends of American Writers, 1953

			Harold Washington Literary Award, 1992, n.d.

			Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1974, n.d. See also Container 171, Speeches, 1974

			National Abortion Rights Action League, 1992

			National Book Award, 1953, 1974

			National Medal of Arts, 1985, n.d.

			Oklahoma, 1975, 1986

			Oklahoma Arts and Humanities Council, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1966-1967, n.d.

			Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Okla., 1969

			Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1969

			Russwurm Award, 1953

			Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., 1966

			Top Hat Award, New Pittsburgh Courier, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1975-1976

			Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., 1963

			University of Maryland, College Park, Md., 1974, n.d. See also Oversize

			Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C., 1974 See also Oversize

			Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., 1979-1980

BOX 215		Birthday tributes, 1989

		Communist party, 1937-1942, n.d.

		Entertaining, 1963-1968, 1988, n.d.

		International Workers Order, 1939

		Invitations

			Exhibitions

				1943-1946, 1952-1989
					(6 folders)

BOX 216				1990-1994, n.d.
					(2 folders)

			General

				1935-1979
					(5 folders)

BOX 217				1980-1994
					(6 folders)

BOX 218				Undated
					(2 folders)

			Social

				1935, 1946-1994
					(5 folders)

BOX 219				Undated

		Memberships and licenses, 1954-1960, 1969, 1987, n.d.

		Notebook covers, n.d.

		Printed material, 1904, 1921-1955, 1968-1985, 1993, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Programs, 1932-1976, 1992, n.d.
			(2 folders)

		Ration and public assistance books, 1943, n.d.

		Receipts, 1932-1938, 1959, n.d.

		Recipes, 1969-1976, 1990-1991, n.d.

BOX 220-231	Closed, 1932-1994, n.d.
		Fragile material, consisting mostly of correspondence, drawings, and writings, which has been removed and replaced with photocopies.
		Organized and described according to the series and folders from which the items were removed.

BOX 220		Family Papers

			Ellison, Fanny McConnell

				Notes, n.d.

				School papers

					General, n.d.

					University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, fundamentals of speech, 1936
						(2 folders)

				Writings, n.d.
					(2 folders)

			Ellison, Ralph

				Correspondence

					Bell, Ida Ellison, 1937

					Ellison, Fanny McConnell, 1944-1945, n.d.
						(2 folders)

					Ellison, Herbert M., n.d.

				Drawings, 1932, n.d.

				Employment

					Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project

						Assignments, 1938-1941, n.d.

						Miscellany, 1938-1942, n.d.

						Reports

							Anti-Semitism, n.d.

							"Famous Trials," 1941

							Folklore, ca. 1938
								(2 folders)

							History of New York, N.Y., n.d.

							"Jews in American Theatre," ca. 1939

BOX 221							"The Negro and the War," ca. 1940
								(3 folders)

							"Negro Leadership," n.d.

							"Negroes of New York"

								Chapt. II, n.d.

								Chapt. V, n.d.

								Chapt. VI, n.d.

								Chapt. VII, n.d.

								Chapt. XVIII, 1940

								Notes, n.d.

							Religion and abolitionism, n.d.

		General Correspondence

			"A-Ai" miscellaneous, 1940, 1946-1992, n.d.

			Bellow, Saul, 1952-1964, 1977, 1994, n.d.
				(2 folders)

BOX 222			Burke, Kenneth, 1945-1954, 1964-1972, 1981-1985, n.d.
				(3 folders)

			Harrison, Hazel, 1936-1940, 1954, 1967-1969, n.d.

			Hughes, Langston, 1936-1966, n.d.

			Lazenberry, Joe, 1935-1939, n.d.

			Negro Quarterly, 1940-1945, 1968, n.d.
				(2 folders)

			Wright, Richard and Ellen, 1937-1953, n.d.
				(2 folders)

			Unidentified, n.d.

		Organizations File

			National Negro Congress, 1940, n.d.

		Writings File

			Essays and essay collections

				American Negro Congress, ca. 1940

				"Camp Lost Colony," 1940

				"A Congress Jim Crow Didn't Attend," 1940

				Editorial comments

					General, ca. 1937, 1970, n.d.

					Negro Quarterly, 1942-1944, n.d.
						(2 folders)

				"Harlem Is Nowhere" (1964), 1947-1948, n.d.
					(3 folders)

				Hemingway, Ernest, unfinished essay, ca. 1940
					(2 folders)

				"Imprisioned in Words," 1946-1947, n.d.

				"Let Us Consider the Harlem Crime Wave," ca. 1943

BOX 223				Miscellaneous notes, 1943, 1953-1991, n.d.
					(2 folders)

				New American left wing writers, ca. 1935

				"Philippine Writers Report," 1941

				"Recent Negro Fiction" (1941), 1941, n.d.
					(2 folders)

				"Richard Wright's Blues" (1945), draft fragments and notes, 1945, n.d.

				"The Shadow and the Act" (1949), 1949-1950, n.d.

				Shadow and Act (1964)

					Drafts

						" An American Dilemma: A Review," 1944, n.d.

						Miscellaneous text, 1964-1966, n.d.

						"Twentieth Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity," ca. 1946, 1953

				"Society, Morality, and the Novel," The Living Novel (1957), 1956-1963, n.d.

				"Tell It Like It Is, Baby" (1965)

					Drafts, 1965-1969, 1990, n.d.
						(2 folders)

					Galleys, notes, and general material, 1965-1969, 1990, n.d.

				"Three Southern Novels," 1944, n.d.

				Unidentified fragments, n.d.
					(2 folders)

				"The World and the Jug" (1963), notes, n.d.

			Memoirs, draft fragments, n.d.

BOX 224			Miscellany

				Notes, 1941-1988, n.d.
					(4 folders)

				Plot ideas, n.d.

				Unidentified fragments, ca. 1940, 1963 n.d.
					(3 folders)

			Novels

				Hickman novel

					Drafts

						Episodes

							Bliss and Severin's mother, n.d.

							Bliss and Sister Georgia, n.d.

							Bliss, Body, and Meatwhistle, 1959, 1981, n.d.

							Cliofus talks with McIntyre, n.d.

							Hickman and Wilhite at Mister Jessie's, complete sequences, 1968, n.d.

							Hickman and Wilhite leave the Lincoln Memorial, n.d.

							"Hickman Reminiscing," n.d.

							Hickman with Bliss at the hospital, n.d.

							"McIntyre's Dream"

								Hitching post boy, n.d.

								Mother Strothers, n.d.

							"Mr. Love New," n.d.

BOX 225							Mr. Love New and Severin, n.d.
								(2 folders)

							"Prologue," n.d.

							Severin and the shooting of the senator, n.d.

							Unidentified pages, n.d.

					Notes and notebooks, 1956-1989, n.d.
						(12 folders)

				Invisible Man

					Drafts

						Episodes

							"At Mary's," n.d.

							"Bar Scene, El Toro," n.d.

							"Battle Royal," n.d.

							"Brockaway (Paint Factory)," n.d.

							"Brotherhood," n.d.
								(2 folders)

BOX 226							"Campus," n.d.

							"Chapel," first draft and notes, n.d.

							"Hospital Alley Scene," also titled "Nigger, What Kinda Man Am I?" n.d.

							"Hospital and St. Mary's" (in continuity), n.d.

							"Hospital Scene," working copy, n.d.

							Miscellaneous scenes, n.d.

							"New York," first draft and notes, n.d.

							"Perception," orginal draft titled "Eviction, Priest, Parade, Party, Bank, and Apartment," n.d.

							"Priest Scene," n.d.

							"Prologue," n.d.

							"Riot," n.d.

							"Woodridge," n.d.

						Fragments and partial drafts, 1951, n.d.
							(5 folders)

						Notes, 1945-1950, n.d.
							(6 folders)
BOX 227							(7 folders)

					Foreign rights and translations, 1952-1978

					Publicity, n.d.

					Published editions

						New American Library of World Literature,

							1951-1971, n.d.

						Random House, correspondence, 1947-1969

				Slick novel

					Drafts

						Episodes

							Booker's reveries, n.d.

							"Mister Mac" or "Tale of a Southern Road," n.d.
								(2 folders)

							Slick and Booker hunting, n.d.

							Slick and Bostic, n.d.

							Slick and Callie at the hospital, n.d.

							Slick and Liles, n.d.

							Slick and Snodgrass, n.d.

						Original typescript

							Section I, ca. 1939

BOX 228							Section II, ca. 1939

						Miscellaneous pages, ca. 1939

						Notes, n.d.

			Poetry, 1935-1937, n.d.

			Reviews

				1937-1946
					(10 folders)

BOX 229				1947-1964
					(4 folders)

			Short stories

				"Afternoon," n.d.

				"The Birthmark," 1940, n.d.

				"Butler Boy and the TV Set," n.d.

				"The Dream," 1941, n.d.
					(6 folders)

				"Flying Home," 1944, 1971-1974, 1992, n.d.
					(2 folders)

BOX 230				"Gann Wilson," n.d.

				"A Hard Time Keeping Up" (posthumous title), n.d.

				"Hymie's Bull" (posthumous title), n.d.

				"I Did Not Learn Their Names," ca. 1940

				"The Initiation," n.d.
					(5 folders)

				"Jake Smith," n.d.

				"The King of the Bingo Game," 1944, 1970-1974, 1980, 1988-1992, n.d.

				"Mister Toussan," 1941-1947, 1971, n.d.

				"Myth Mood," ca. 1937

				Notes, 1978-1980, 1988-1990, n.d.

				"The Red Cross at Morriston, Swansea, S.W.," n.d.

				"Slick Gonna Learn," 1939

				"A Storm of Blizzard Proportions," 1944, n.d.

BOX 231				"That I Had the Wings," n.d.

				Tillman and Tackhead, n.d.
					(3 folders)

				Untitled, n.d.
					(3 folders)

			Writings by others

				Bone, Robert, 1972

				Miscellaneous, 1936-1965

		Speeches, Lectures, and Interviews

			Lectures

				1945, 1 Nov., "American Negro Writing, A Problem of Identity," Bennington College, Bennington, Vt., 1945, n.d.

				1969, 26 Mar., lecture on Invisible Man, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., 1973-1974, n.d.

			Interviews

				1960, 11 May, "A Talk with Ralph Ellison," Richard G. Stern, 1960-1961, n.d.

			Miscellaneous notes and fragments, n.d.

BOX OV 1-OV 22	Oversize, 1923-1993, n.d.
		Oversize material consisting mostly of drawings, financial and legal records, writings, and printed material.
		Organized and described according to the series, folders, and boxes from which the items were removed.

BOX OV 1		Family Papers

			Ellison, Fanny McConnell

				Employment

					Chicago, Ill., Board of Education, Visual Education Project

						"Ancient Roman and Byzantine Costume," n.d. (Container 2)

BOX OV 2						"Costume of the Eighteenth Century," n.d. (Container 3)

BOX OV 3						Costume of the Middle Ages and seventeenth century, n.d. (Containers 3-5)

BOX OV 4						"Egyptian Costume," n.d. (Container 5 )

BOX OV 5					National Urban League, ca. 1944 (Container 6 )

BOX OV 6				School papers

					Elementary and high school, 1925, 1932

						(Container 12)

BOX OV 7			Ellison, Ralph

				Financial papers

					Income and expenses, 1965-1966, 1973-1980

						(Containers 21-22)

BOX OV 8				Household papers

					Inventories and insurance, ca. 1968 (Container 24)

BOX OV 9					Key West, Fla.

						Financial papers, 1976-1979 (Container 25)

BOX OV 10						Legal papers, 1976 (Container 25)

BOX OV 11						Miscellany, n.d. (Container 26)

BOX OV 12					Plainfield, Mass.

						Inventories and insurance, ca. 1968

							(Container 26)

BOX OV 13				Printed matter, 1967, 1976, 1983, n.d.

					(Container 31)

BOX OV 14				School papers

					Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala.

						Music, 1923, n.d. (Containers 32-33)

BOX OV 15						Publications, 1934-1935 (Container 33)

BOX OV 16		General Correspondence

			Ellington, Duke, n.d. (Container 46)

BOX OV 17			Ralph Ellison Branch, Metropolitan Library System, Oklahoma City, Okla.

				Architectural drawings, 1973 (Container 65)

BOX OV 18		Writings

			Miscellany

				Royalty statements, 1972-1992 (Container 114)

			Novels

				Invisible Man

					Author's first proof, 1951 (Container 152)

					Published editions

						Random House

							Royalties, 1952-1963, 1970-1980

								(Container 154)

BOX OV 19			Short stories

				"Hymie's Bull" (posthumous title), n.d.

					(Container 163)

BOX OV 20		Reference File

			Africa, 1953, 1959 (Container 179)

			African-American studies, 1969 (Container 179)

			American Indians, 1971 (Container 179)

			Biographical information

				Hemingway, Ernest, 1935 (Container 187)

				Holiday, Billie, 1991 (Container 188)

			Europe, 1954 (Container 201)

			Photography, 1937, n.d. (Container 207)

BOX OV 21		Miscellany

			Appointment calendars, 1963, 1991-1993 (Container 213)

BOX OV 22			Awards, citations, and honorary degrees

				College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., 1972 (Container 214)

				University of Maryland, College Park, Md., 1974 (Container 214)

				Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C., 1974 (Container 214)

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Ralph Ellison

A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress

Prepared by Donna Ellis with the assistance of Patricia Craig, Julie Hunsaker, Sherralyn McCoy, John Monagle, Angela Moore, and Andrew Passett

Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

Washington, D.C.

1997

Date

Event

Family Papers, 1890-1996, n.d.

General Correspondence, 1930-1996, n.d.

Organizations File, 1939-1994, n.d.

Writings File, 1935-1995, n.d.

Speeches, Lectures, and Interviews, 1945-1993, n.d.

Reference File, 1901-1995, n.d.

Miscellany, 1904-1994, n.d.

Closed, 1932-1994, n.d.

Oversize, 1923-1993, n.d.

Prepared by Donna Ellis
with the assistance of Patricia Craig, Julie Hunsaker, Sherralyn McCoy, John Monagle, Angela Moore, and Andrew Passett