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Claude McKay collection : additions

Title
  1. Claude McKay collection : additions, 1912-1953.
Author
  1. McKay, Claude, 1890-1948.

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Additional authors
  1. Williamson, Simon
  2. Raphael, Ruth
Description
  1. .2 lin. ft. (1/2 archival box)
Summary
  1. The Claude McKay collection (additions) consists of correspondence, manuscripts, a galley, and related printed material. The correspondence is mostly letters from McKay to Simon Williamson which trace the development of their friendship and its dissolution, and letters to Ruth Raphael that discuss McKay's health, writings, and conversion to Catholicism. The general correspondence folder contains letters about "Bambara" magazine, a literary endeavor proposed during the Harlem Renaissance. Manuscripts include a poem by McKay, with editorial notes, entitled "Note to Harlem", along with a corrected typescript of "My Greenhills of Jamaica," and the galley for book, "Selected Poems of Claude McKay" published after his death. The news clippings are mostly obituaries and matters relating to the distribution of his literary papers.
Subject
  1. Black people > Poetry
  2. Jamaican poetry > 21st century
  3. Harlem Renaissance
  4. Black author
  5. Galley proofs
  6. Authors, Jamaican > 20th century
  7. Authors, Caribbean > Jamaica > 20th century
  8. McKay, Claude, 1890-1948
  9. Jamaican Americans
  10. Poems
  11. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Poetry
  12. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century
  13. Jamaica > Poetry
  14. Authors, Black > New York (State) > New York > 20th century
  15. Caribbean poetry (English)
  16. Manuscripts
Genre/Form
  1. Jamaican poetry – 21st century.
  2. Caribbean poetry (English)
  3. Poems.
  4. Manuscripts.
  5. Galley proofs.
Source (note)
  1. Various sources
Biography (note)
  1. Claude McKay, born in Jamaica, is known as one of the major artists of the Harlem Renaissance, and authored several published and unpublished poems and novels.
Author
  1. McKay, Claude, 1890-1948.
Title
  1. Claude McKay collection : additions, 1912-1953.
Biography
  1. Claude McKay, born in Jamaica, is known as one of the major artists of the Harlem Renaissance, and authored several published and unpublished poems and novels.
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Local subject
  1. Black author.
Added author
  1. McKay, Claude, 1890-1948. My Greenhills of Jamaica.
  2. Williamson, Simon.
  3. Raphael, Ruth.
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