Tolson, Melvin Beaunorus. creator mixed material monographic eng 4,000 13 5 Personal and professional correspondence, drafts of writings, speeches, research notes, and printed material relating primarily to Tolson's literary career and reflecting the Harlem Renaissance and other aspects of African American art, literature, and culture. Includes drafts of Harlem Gallery (1965), Libretto for the Republic of Liberia (1953), and other writings. Includes correspondence and research files of Robert M.Farnsworth, Tolson's biographer and editor of two volumes of his writings. Tolson's correspondents include Horace Mann Bond, William K. Flowers, Herbert Hill, Langston Hughes, Albert Y. Lansdowne, Dudley Randall, Karl Jay Shapiro, Jacob Steinburg, Allen Tate, and Ida Frances Wilson. Open to research. Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Author, educator, and poet; mayor of Langston, Okla., and poet laureate of Liberia. Born 1898, died 1966. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009151 Bond, Horace Mann 1904-1972 Correspondence Flowers, William K. (William Knox) 1916- Correspondence Hill, Herbert 1924-2004 Correspondence Hughes, Langston 1902-1967 Correspondence Lansdowne, Albert Y Correspondence Randall, Dudley 1914- Correspondence Shapiro, Karl Jay 1913-2000 Correspondence Steinburg, Jacob Correspondence Tate, Allen 1899-1979 Correspondence Wilson, Ida Frances 1920- Correspondence African American art American literature African American authors Harlem Renaissance Liberian poetry (English) Authors Educators Poets Farnsworth, Robert M. Tolson, Melvin Beaunorus. mm 76055798 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms009151 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms009151.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009151 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009151.3 Open to research. DLC 760420 20260227111617.0 mm 76055798