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Start Over Collection Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters, 1800-1971

1951-1955 Box 36, Folder 667-675

Includes original and carbon copies of letters to and/or from Jean Blackwell, curator of the Schombug Collection (1953); Arna Bontemps (1953); Langston Hughes (1953); Sarah-Patton Boyle (1954); Ramòn J. Sender (1955); birthday card, signed by Peterson and for Nora [Holt] and Harold [Jackman] to CVV (1953); typescript list of Jerome Bowers Peterson Memorial Collection of Photographs of Celebrated Negroes enclosed with letter from Peterson to CVV (1954); photocopy of clipping of column "Our People" by Melvin Tapley in the Amsterdam News, signed by Langston Hughes (1955); typescript one-page biography of Jerome Bowers Peterson by Dorothy Peterson (1955)

  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
  2. Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters, 1800-1971
  3. Correspondence, 1914-1971
  4. A-Z Correspondence
  5. Peterson, Dorothy

1956-1961 Box 37, Folder 676-685

Includes original and carbon copies of letters to and/or from Jane White (1956); Harold Jackman (1956, 1960); Lambert Davis (1957); Sidney Peterson (1958); John Rhoden (1958); Arna Bontemps (1959); Carla Peterson (1959, 1960); Danna Peterson, 1960); Jane Peterson (1959, 1960); Nora Holt (1960); Languston Hughes (1960); Clèment Richer (1960); and Langston Hughes (1961); manuscript note from Peterson to CVV on typed copy of her travel itinerary (1956); gift acknowledgment and list from Yale University Library to Peterson (1960)

  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
  2. Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters, 1800-1971
  3. Correspondence, 1914-1971
  4. A-Z Correspondence
  5. Peterson, Dorothy

1959-1967 Box 16, Folder 354-363

Includes letters from Elmer Simms Campbell (1959); Louise Parker (1963); Anita Thompson (1964); performance programs for Erroll Garner (1959), Tyrone Phillips (1962), Lola Hayes Studio (1962) and Edward Culbreath (1964) with autograph notes by Holt; typescript, carbon copy, with manuscript notes by Nora Holt of an obituary for Helen Eugenia Hagan (1964)

  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
  2. Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters, 1800-1971
  3. Correspondence, 1914-1971
  4. A-Z Correspondence
  5. Holt, Nora Douglas

1961-1971 Box 29, Folder 507-508

Includes autograph note, signed, "A.S." [Anne Spencer] to Johnson, enclosed with autograph note from Johnson to CVV (1964); and telegram condolences on the death of Fania Marinoff from Johnson to Joseph Solomon, in care of the Campbell Funeral Parlor (1971)

  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
  2. Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters, 1800-1971
  3. Correspondence, 1914-1971
  4. A-Z Correspondence
  5. Johnson, Grace Nail

1962-1967 Box 20, Folder 401-403

Includes Christmas card photograph of Hughes (1965); memorial service program for Hughes (1967); typescript letter, signed, by Hughes to CVV, undated, with two poems, "Body" and "Argument"; and typescript mimeograph copy of "That Eagle" by Langston Hughes and Emerson Harper (undated)

  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
  2. Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters, 1800-1971
  3. Correspondence, 1914-1971
  4. A-Z Correspondence
  5. Hughes, Langston