Langston’s Dream
Manuscript drafts of “Montage of a Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes (JWJ MSS 26 Langston Hughes Papers Finding Aid; additional images from the Langston Hughes Papers)
Play de Blues and Misery
Play de Blues / Misery — Image by Aaron Douglas, poem by Langston Hughes, from Six Poems, [1926].
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Corrections
Poets’ corrected manuscripts and working drafts
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), “Helios” (YCAL MSS 24)
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Langston Hughes, “Portrait of a Woman: Harriet Tubman” (JWJ MSS 26)
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Ezra Pound, “Canto 98” (YCAL MSS 43)
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Gertrude Stein, “Objects” (YCAL MSS 76)
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Jean Toomer, poems (JWJ MSS 1)
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Robert Penn Warren, “The Corner of the Eye” (YCAL MSS 51)
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Notebooks
Writers’ Notebooks
Walt Whitman, “Pictures” holograph notebook, corrected (YCAL 202)
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H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), “Hippolitus,” notebook draft (YCAL MSS 24)
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James Weldon Johnson, National Hymn (Lift Every Voice), Notebook 8
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J. M. Barrie, Notebook 20 (MSS Vault Barrie)
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Gertrude Stein, Harriet & Claribel (Page from Diagram notebook) (YCAL MSS 76)
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Thornton Wilder, [Manuscript notebook containing dialogue for Merchant of Yonkers and notes on “other projects”] (YCAL MSS 108)
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Langston Hughes, Notebook from trip to Russia (JWJ MSS 26)
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Olga Rudge, “Castia, Luisa” Rubrica notebook, (YCAL MSS 54)
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Ezra Pound, Notebook pages for Canto XX (YCAL MSS 43)
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Young and Modern
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
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Langston Hughes, with his mother
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Wallace Thurman
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Find related materials in the Beinecke Collections: Finding Aid Database (archival collections), Orbis (printed materials), Digital Library (images).
Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities 
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