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William Stanley Braithwaite Papers
An inventory of his papers at Syracuse University
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| Creator: | Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962. |
| Title: | William Stanley Braithwaite Papers |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1916-1962 |
| Quantity: | 3.5 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Papers of the African-American poet, author, critic. Correspondence, and manuscripts by Braithwaite and others. Notable correspondents include Arna Bontemps, Louis Bromfield, Sterling Brown, Marie Bullock, Witter Bynner, Cass Canfield, Bliss Carman, Bennet Cerf, Katherine Chapin, James Cozzens, Countee Cullen, Gustav Davidson, W.E.B. DuBois, Kimball Flaccus, Robert Frost, Claire and Nina Gerbaulet, Louis Ginsberg, Hermann Hagedorn, Leigh Hanes, Robert Hillyer, John Holmes, Langston Hughes, Georgia Johnson, MacKinlay Kantor, Joseph Joel Keith, Florence Lennon, Benjamin Mays, David McCord, Marianne Moore, Maurice Peloubet, Bliss Perry, Minerva Perry, Helen Channing Pollock, Ruby Altizer Roberts, Paul Robeson, Angelo Schmuller, Lulu Schultz, George S. Schuyler, Delmore Schwartz, Eli Siegel, Jules Siegel, Noble Sissle, Chard Powers Smith, Vladimir Sokoloff, Arthur Spingarn, Jesse Stuart, A.M. Sullivan, May Swenson, Ridgely Torrence, Carl Van Vechten, George Sylvester Viereck, Harold Vinal, Booker T. Washington, Robert C. Weaver, John Hall Wheelock, Margaret Widdemer, William Carlos Williams, and Roscoe Wright. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: | Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
Biographical History
William Stanley Braithwaite (1878-1962) was an African-American poet, literary critic, editor, and anthologist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he was for the most part educated at home, but his love of literature led him to his first job as an apprentice at the publishing firm of Ginn & Company. Over the course of his career he wrote numerous books of poetry and literary criticism, including Lyrics of Life and Love (1904), The House of Falling Leaves (1908), The Poetry of Thomas S. Jones Jr. (1910), The Story of the Great War (1919), Our Essayists and Critics of Today (1920), The Grecian Influence of John Myers O'Hara (1926), Frost on the Green Leaf (1928), and The Bewitched Parsonage: The Story of the Brontes (1950). Anthologies edited by Braithwaite include The Poetic Year for 1916 (1916), Golden Treasury of Magazine Verse (1918), The Book of Modern British Verse, Victory: Contributed by 38 American Poets, and Anthology of Massachusetts Poets (1922).
He served as literary editor of the Boston Evening Transcript, editor of The Poetry Journal in Boston, Massachusetts, executive editor for B. J. Brimmer Publishing Company, and editor of the annual Anthology of Magazine Verse and Year Book of American Poetry, published from 1913 to 1939. He was also Professor of Literature at Atlanta University for nearly ten years.
In 1918 Braithwaite received Honorary Masters degrees from Atlanta University and Talladega College, and the same year the NAACP awarded him its Spingarn Medal.
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Scope and Contents of the Collection
The William Stanley Braithwaite Papers is comprised of 3-1/2 boxes of literary correspondence and 3-1/2 boxes of manuscripts.
Correspondence contain more than a thousand letters, cards, telegrams and other items; correspondents include J. Donald Adams, Arna Bontemps, Witter Bynner, James Gould Cozzens, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Joseph Joel Keith, Paul Scott Mowrer, Helen Channing Pollock, A.M. Sullivan, and many others.
Manuscripts contains numerous manuscripts of the author's works, outlines for projected works, and typescripts of work of many leading poets collected for the Braithwaite's famous anthologies.
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Arrangement of the Collection
Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by name. Manuscripts are arranged ???
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Restrictions
Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions on this material
Use Restrictions
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
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Related Material
A large part of William Stanley Braithwaite's personal library is at Boston University.
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Subject Headings
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Genres and Forms
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Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
William Stanley Braithwaite Papers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Acquisition Information
Gift of Mrs. William S. Braithwaite, 1964.
Finding Aid Information
Created by: JSP
Date: Oct 1964
Revision history: 14 Mar 2008 - converted to EAD (MRC)
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Inventory
| Correspondence | |||||||||||
| Incoming literary correspondence | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Aa-Az | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Academy of American Poets 1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Adams, J. Donald 1957-1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Auslander, Joseph 1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Austin, Edmund O. 1950-1958 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Ba-Bz | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bardolph, Richard 1955-1957 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Beebe, Lucius 1946 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Benet, Rosemary 1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Black, John 1921-1948 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bligh, E. W. 1919 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bonner, Amy 1941 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bontemps, Arna 1948-1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Brennan, John Payne 1958-1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bromfield, Louis undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Brown, Sterling 1941 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Buchman, Marion 1960-1961 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bullock, Marie 1958-1961 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bynner, Witter 1958-1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Ca-Cz | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Canfield, Cass undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Carman, Bliss 1911 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Carpenter, Margaret 1958 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Cerf, Bennet A. 1942 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Chapin, Katherine Garrison 1958 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Clairmonte, Glenway and Joy | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Clemens, Cyril 1945 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Code, Grant H. 1939 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Coward-McCann 1949-1953 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Cozzens, James Gould 1924 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Crews, Caswell W. 1931 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Cullen, Ida and Countee undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Da-Dz | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Dargan, Olive T. 1958-1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Davidson, Gustav 1958-1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | DuBois, W. E. B. 1939-1949 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Ea-Ez | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Eaton, Charles Edward 1958-1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Ebony Magazine 1950-1956 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Engle, Paul 1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Evans, Charles 1956 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Fa-Fz | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Farber, Norma 1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Fenton, Charles 1956 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Flaccus, Kimball 1953 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Frost, Robert 1958 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Ga-Gz | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Gardiner, George L. 1959-1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Ginsberg, Louis 1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Gerbaulet, Joy and Claire 1916-1917 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Gomme, Laurence 1958-1962 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Ha-Hz | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Hagedorn, Hermann 1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Hanes, Leigh 1951-1956 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Hillyer, Robert 1925 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Holmes, John 1956-1958 - includes 2 copies of poems | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Hughes, Langston 1947-1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Hunting, H.B. 1938-1939 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Ja-Jz | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Jackson, Ralph | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Johnson, Georgia Douglas undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Ka-Kz | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Kantor, Mackinlay 1956-1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Keith, Joseph Joel 1959-1960 - includes 1 inscribed poem | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Kline, Burton 1955-1957 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | La-Lz | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Lawrence, Lillith 1958-1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Lennon, Florence Becker undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Ma-Mz | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Mays, Benjamin 1942 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | McCord, David 1958-1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Moore, Marianne 1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Mowrer, Paul Scott 1959-1961 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Na-Nz | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Negro Digest 1947-1948 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Oa-Oz | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Pa-Pz | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Peloubet, Maurice 1958-1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Perkins, Maxwell 1939-1949 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Perry, Bliss undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Perry, Minerva 1947 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Poetry Society of America | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Pollock, Helen Channing 1949 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Ra-Rz | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Reid, Ira De A. 1941-1946 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Roberts, Ruby Altizer 1956-1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Robeson, Paul 1949 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Ross, David 1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Sa-Sz | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Schmuller, Aaron 1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Schultz, Lula Minerva | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Schuyler, George S. 1953-1958 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Schwartz, Delmore 1958 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Scott, Dorothy L. 1942 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Siegel, Eli 1959-1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Siegel, Jules 1958 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Sissle, Noble | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Smith, Chard Powers 1955-1961 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Sokoloff, Vladimir undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Spingarn, Arthur B. 1941-1955 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Stiles, Roberta undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Stuart, Jesse 1958-1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Sullivan, A. M. 1958-1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Swenson, May 1958 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Ta-Tz | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | The Dryden Press 1941-1942 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Tillman, N. P. 1944-1948 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Torrence, Ridgeley 1942 - inscribed photo | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Tutin, William L. 1945-1947 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Ua-Uz | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Va-Vz | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Van Vechten, Carl 1947 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Viereck, George Sylvester 1958 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Vinal, Howard 1948 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Wa-Wz | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Wakefield, Oliver Lindsay | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Washington, Booker T. 1939 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Weaver, Robert C. 1961 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Wheelock, John Hall 1952 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Whitcomb, George Faunce 1958-1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Widdemer, Margaret 1958 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Williams, William Carlos undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Wright, Roscoe 1927-1962 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Unidentifiable correspondence signed "Barbara" | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Unidentifiable correspondence | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Incoming family correspondence | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Miscellaneous correspondence | ||||||||||
| Outgoing literary correspondence | |||||||||||
| Box 4 | Aa-Bz | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Ca-Gz | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Ha-Lz | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Ma-Pz | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Qa-Zz | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Unidentifiable and/or fragments | ||||||||||
| Manuscripts | |||||||||||
| Verse by others | |||||||||||
| Box 4 | Aa-Cz, typescripts | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Da-Lz, typescripts | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Hanes, Leigh, holograph, with short article | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Ma-Rz, typescripts | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Sa-Zz, typescripts | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Printed copies of verse by others | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Miscellaneous typescript copies of poems by other | ||||||||||
| Verse by Braithwaite | |||||||||||
| Box 5 | Holograph | ||||||||||
| A Christmas card you cannot read Among my friends and those An Easter Song For Wynone A Mother's Prayer A rose to the living is more Dear Ike, we honor and adore you For Marianne Moore Go, book, to her be heart and eyes Idiomatic If Herrick had his Julia I looked at the moon In a sunken Pool Not Wise Enough Of One Who Spurns the Lyric One Book Review by J— On An Alabaster Burial Urn Return of the Native Rorty Stardust Vendor Shadows Tenderer I Would Be The Greeks Lost the Word For It The Lady And the Census Taker The Praying Hands There are windows to houses This is the year of great decision Though he may come but once a year Three tall candles may they flame To Helen Channing Pollock To Jane and Julie To Laurie My Granddaughter On Her Second Birthday To M. To Robert Frost We are the music-makers What can I wish you more than this When Mary, flower of maiden head Who Makes the Wind |
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| Box 5 | Typescript | ||||||||||
| Ascension Ambrose Bierce Anne Bradstreet and Phyllis Wheatley An Easter Song Another Avowal Bewitchment Blessing Bryant Park Chastisement Christopher Cinicampius Writes a Letter in Memory of his Friend Erasmus Del Cascar Cynthia Taggart Emily Bronte Ever Old, Ever New Femininity Flower of the Hawthorne For a Lady Who Asked Me to Write a Petrarchan Sonnet For Truda T. Weil Guynemer Idiomatic If I Were Prickled With the Scratch of Rhyme Iron and corn to rust and ripen How Have I Reached This Height That Now Surveys Life's Trivia Loves of the Puppets Mr. Kasebier's Orchard Mysteries Not Wise Enough Keat's Birthday Of Dead Ladies Of One Who Spurns the Lyric O Lady of the Hawthorne On An Alabaster Burial Urn On Being Threatened With Blindness On the Centenary of the Birth of Booker T. Washington Only To the Soul Is lt Given On the Jiffy Bag Petition Photograph of Robert Frost Prophecy Remembrance of Elizabethan Springtide Saint Rose of Lima Sara Teasdale Sea Honeymoon To Icaria Shadows Sidney Lanier Should the bright world now fade out on a weight Signal Some Literary Epigrams Tender I Would Be The Age of Ebony The Echo of the Singers The Ghost In the Carpet The Greeks Lost the Word For lt The Hour Most Still The King's Daughter The Mutuel Player's Prayer These things now swept me on a tide The Palm The Praying Hands The Septuagenarian Approaches Christmas The Signal The Tragedy of Lovers Leap They Are Awakened Time For A Change To Jane And Julie To Marianne Moore For Her Birthday To One In Whose Feeding Lurks A Dragon To Robert Herrick, In the Spring To Smith, — Her Dog Trail-Breaker Who Makes the Wind With a fierce spring and loud alarm Wreckage Will There Be Another April You Flashed Like A Cardinal Bird |
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| Articles and books by Braithwaite | |||||||||||
| Box 5 | Selected Poems - typescript | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Selected Poems - printer's proofs | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | A Letter In Memory of Erasmus and Other Poems - typescript | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry 1958 - partial proofs | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | The Bewitched Parsonage: The Story of the Brontes - typescript table of contents | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | The Bewitched Parsonage: The Story of the Brontes - typescript copies, Chapters I, II, III, V, VII, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XX | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | The Bewitched Parsonage: The Story of the Brontes - typescript copies, Chapters XXII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX, XXXI, XXXII | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | The Bewitched Parsonage: The Story of the Brontes. - typescript partial manuscript | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | unnumbered chapters on Emily, Charlotte, Branwell Bronte, Emily's Poems, and The Bronte Family. - typescript copies | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Miscellaneous material on The Bewitched Parsonage: The Story of the Brontes. | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Proposed book A Century of the Negro Novelist - holograph outline | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Proposed book A Century of the Negro Novelist - holograph copy | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Proposed book A Century of the Negro Novelist - typescript copies | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Further material concerning author's proposal for book A Century of the Negro Novelist | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Article, "Alain Locke and Negro Authorship" - typescript copies | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Article, A Pioneer Magazine - typescript | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Article, "A Prophetic Bible Course" - holograph copy | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Article, "A Prophetic Bible Course" - typescript | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Article, "Dispensational Truth or God's Plan and Purpose In The Ages" - holograph copy | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Article, "Dispensational Truth or God's Plan and Purpose In The Ages" - typescript | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Article, "Emily Bronte: A Study in Literary Alchemy." - holograph copy | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Article, "Emily Bronte: A Study in Literary Alchemy." - typescript | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Article, "Gallant Sir Harry Vane." - typescript | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Pandora's Garden: An Anthology of the Women Poets of America - typescript outline | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Story of the Years Between: 1918-1939 - typescript | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Article, "The Contemporary Novelist." - typescript | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Article, "The Feast of the Poets." - typescript | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | The House Under Arcturus: An Autobiography - typescript partial manuscript | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Article, "The Magazines and The Poets and Other Studies in Prose and Verse." - typescript | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Article, "The Negro in American Literature." - typescript | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Article, "The New Emancipation." - typescript | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | The Years Between 1918-1939 - typescript table of contents | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | The Years Between 1918-1939 - holograph copy | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | The Years Between 1918-1939 - transcript fragments | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Article, "Three Friends: A Sheaf of Memoirs" - holograph copy | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Article on Boston and New England - typescript | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Article on W. E. B. DuBois - holograph copy | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Article on Negro Community of New York - typescript | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Typescript and holograph copies of several short manuscripts | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Several short articles - holograph copies | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Several short articles - typescript copies | ||||||||||
| Reviews | |||||||||||
| Box 6 | Reviews by W. S. Braithwaite - holograph copies | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Reviews by W. S. Braithwaite - typescript copies | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Reviews - printed copies | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Review of The Bewitched Parsonage: The Story of the Brontes | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Reviews of Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Review of Selected Poems | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Miscellaneous reviews | ||||||||||
| Other material | |||||||||||
| Box 6 | General clippings | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Material concerning anthology | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Song with lyrics by W. S. Braithwaite | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Photograph of W. S. Braithwaite | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Miscellaneous photographs | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Typescript articles on W. S. Braithwaite | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Tape recording: "Enjoyment of Poetry" series, WEVD 6 Jul 1958 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Pamphlets and programs | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Magazines (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Miscellaneous material | ||||||||||
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