Title: Gwendolyn Brooks Collection, 1909-2003
Predominant Dates:bulk 1960-2000
ID: 01/01/MSS00086
Primary Creator: Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2000)
Extent: 200.0 Linear Feet
Date Acquired: 09/19/2013
Subjects: Poets, American - 20th century
Languages: English
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was an American poet and educator born in Topeka, Kansas and raised on the South Side of Chicago. In 1950, Brooks was the first Black person to win a Pulitzer Prize in any category, receiving the award in Poetry for Annie Allen (1949). Brooks was a beloved mentor to many poets and artists from the Black Arts movement, and started the Illinois Poet Laureate Awards to encourage poetry writing amongst young people. During her life, Brooks received numerous accolades for her work, including her appointment as Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (now the Poet Laureate of the United States) in 1985.
This collection contains materials that were collected by Gwendolyn Brooks throughout her life and professional career. Formats include correspondence; poetry and prose drafts; interview transcripts; notebooks and loose notes and jottings; photos and scrapbooks; drawings; calendars and diet books; public engagements files and teaching materials; awards, honorary degrees, and doctoral hoods; newspapers and news clippings; A/V media; realia; and ephemera. The collection also contains volumes, pamphlets, and periodicals from Brooks's personal library, as well as related materials collected by RBML ("Supplementary Material").
This record does not contain collection content for the first series of the Gwendolyn Brooks Collection. Series 1, which contains alphabetical correspondence and correspondence files, was separated from the rest of the collection in an attempt to improve load times. Click here to view series 1 (temporarily MS00086a).
Poet Gwendolyn Brooks was born to parents David Anderson and Keziah Wims Brooks on June 7, 1917 in Topeka, Kansas. A few weeks later, her family moved to Chicago where she would live for the rest of her life. Brooks began writing at an early age and was encouraged by her mother saying, "You are going to be the lady Paul Laurence Dunbar." When she was 13, her poem "Evening" was published in the children's magazine American Childhood [1]. By the time she graduated high school, Brooks had published over one hundred poems in the "Lights and Shadows" poetry column of the Chicago Defender [2]. After high school, Brooks graduated from a two-year program at Wilson Junior College [3]. In 1939, she married Henry Blakely, Jr. whom she met after joining the Chicago NAACP Youth Council. They soon had their first child, Henry III, and later their daughter, Nora.
Early in her career, Brooks was encouraged by poet James Weldon Johnson and Harlem Renaissance writers Langston Hughes and Richard Wright [4]. In her work, Brooks drew inspiration from her life and surroundings in Chicago. Her first book of poetry, A Street in Bronzeville (1945), received praise for its authentic portraits of the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago. Her second collection of poems, Annie Allen (1949), chronicles the life of a young Black Bronzeville girl. It was for this book that Brooks won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, making her the first Black person to win the award in any category [5].
In the 1960s, Brooks work became more overtly political as she became close with activists and writers involved in the Black Arts Movement, a group of artists whose work reflected the cultural side of the growing Black Power movement [6]. She became especially close with Haki Madhubuti, to whom she became both a mentor and a mother figure. Soon Brooks began working exclusively with Black publishers, especially Broadside Press, founded by her close friend Dudley Randall, and Third World Press, founded by Madhubuti. In the 1980s, Brooks also established her own imprint called The David Company.
Throughout her long career, Brooks published more than twenty books of poetry, including The Bean Eaters (1960), Selected Poems (1963), In the Mecca (1968), Riot (1969), Family Pictures (1970), Aloneness (1971), Beckonings (1975), To Disembark (1981), Black Love (1982), The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems (1986), Blacks (1987), Gottschalk and the Grand Tarantelle (1988), Winnie (1988), and Children Coming Home (1991). She also published one novel, Maud Martha (1953), as well as children's literature such as Bronzeville Boys and Girls (1956) and The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves (1974). Brooks also published two autobiographies, Report from Part One (1972), and Report from Part Two (1995).
In addition to her writing, Brooks taught poetry and creative writing at numerous colleges and universities. In 1990, the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing was founded at Chicago State University, where Brooks served as distinguished professor and writer-in-residence [7]. Brooks influenced generations of writers, not only with her words, but with her actions. For most of the year, she traveled the country to perform her poetry for children of all ages as well as at universities, public libraries, hospitals, and prisons. As she especially encouraged young poets, Brooks sponsored youth poetry awards for over thirty years. Renowned for her generosity, Brooks dedicated her life to promoting the value of poetry and inspiring young writers.
Brooks was the recipient of more than seventy-five honorary doctorates and countless accolades [8]. In 1968, she was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois, a position which she held until her death in 2000 [9]. In 1985, Brooks was selected for an honorary one-year term as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress [10]. She received lifetime achievement awards from both the National Endowment for the Arts in 1989 and the National Book Foundation in 1994. Brooks then received the National Endowment for the Humanities' highest honor when she was named the 1994 Jefferson Lecturer. The next year, Brooks received the National Medal of Arts.
Today, Gwendolyn Brooks' legacy persists as one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century, because of both her contribution to American literature and her kindness and generosity, especially toward young poets and authors of color.
Repository:
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Acquisition Source:
Nora Brooks Blakely
Related Materials:
Celebrating Brooks @ 100
Gwendolyn Brooks Supplementary Materials
Gwendolyn Brooks Collection (Sc MG 271) | New York Public Library
Gwendolyn Brooks Papers (BANC MSS 2001/83 z) | University of California, Berkeley
Dudley Randall Papers (2017014 Aa 2) | University of Michigan
Sterling Plumpp Collection (MUM00368) | University of Mississippi
Useni Eugene Perkins Papers (2014/01) | Chicago Public Library
Finding Aid Revision History:
This finding aid is experiencing ongoing revision, beginning in June 2023.
Box and Folder Listing
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Series 1: Correspondence],
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Series 3: Gwendolyn Brooks Personal Files],
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Series 4: Photos and Scrapbooks],
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Series 5: Drawings],
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Series 6: Calendars],
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Series 7: Public Engagements],
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Series 8: Contests and Scholarships],
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Series 9: Teaching Materials],
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Series 10: Programs, Broadsides, Posters, and Ephemera],
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Series 11: David Company Records],
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Series 12: Financial Records],
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Series 13: Legal, Medical, and Real Estate Records],
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Series 14: Gwendolyn Brooks Personal Realia/Artifacts],
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Series 15: Gwendolyn Brooks Library],
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Series 16: Sheet Music],
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Series 17: Audiovisual Materials],
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Series 18: Newspapers and Magazines],
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Series 19: Works of Others],
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Series 20: Oversize Items],
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Series 21: Supplementary Material],
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- Series 2: Writings
- Sub-series 1: Poetry Drafts - Individual Poems
- Box 237
- Folder 1: "A Farmer”, 1988
- Folder 2: "Again He Did Not Return", undated
- Folder 3: "A Girl", 1998
- Folder 4: "Aloneness", undated
- Folder 5: "An Afternote to the Progress", 1982
- Folder 6: "An Aspect of Love, Alive in the Ice and Fire", undated
- Folder 7: "Another Girl", undated
- Folder 8: "Another Loss", 1999
- Folder 9: Art, undated
- Folder 10: Behind the Scenes, 1991
- Folder 11: Black Poets Today, undated
- Folder 12: Blackness: Chicago, undated
- Folder 13: "Black Steel", undated
- Folder 14: "Books Feed and Cure and Chortle and Collide", undated
- Folder 15: "Boys, Black", undated
- Folder 16-17: "Brelve, A Battered Woman", 1990, undated
- Folder 18: "Brooke Maj, of Hawthorn South School", undated
- Folder 19-20: "Captain Delores", 1991, undated
- Folder 21: "Causes for Optimism", undated
- Folder 22: "A Celebration: A Hymn to Chicago", undated
- Folder 23-24: "Chicago, the I Will City", 1982, undated
- Folder 25-26: "The Chicago Picasso", 1986, undated
- Folder 27: "Chicago State University", 1991/1992
- Folder 28: "Children", undated
- Folder 29-30: "Collage", 1999
- Folder 31: "Collage for Today", 1972
- Folder 32: "Collage for Today – I. Aurora", undated
- Folder 33-35: "Computer", 1983, undated
- Folder 36: "Christmas Morning Comes Too Soon", undated
- Folder 37: "Danse Africaine", undated
- Folder 38: "A Daughter of Africa", 1939
- Folder 39: "The Decision of Senator Simon", 1994
- Folder 40: "Duke Ellington", 1998
- Folder 41: "The Event Downtown", undated
- Folder 42: "For Charlemae Rollins", undated
- Folder 43: "For Dudley Randall", 1975
- Folder 44: "For Jenny Rutland", 1985
- Folder 45: "For Nora on Mother’s Day", 1995
- Folder 46-47: "For Sara Miller, Sculptor", 1994
- Folder 48: "Friends, Black Folk, Blood of Africa", undated
- Folder 49: "Ghetto Cat", undated
- Folder 50: "Hillary Rodham Clinton", 1997
- Folder 51: "Horses Graze", 1973
- Folder 52: "The Illinois & Michigan Canal. The Sesquicentennial", undated
- Folder 53: "Infirm", undated
- Folder 54: "In Honor of Bill Pinkney, Voyager Extraordinaire", 1992
- Folder 55: "Introduction to Myself", 1989
- Folder 56-59: "Jane Addams", 1989
- Folder 58 includes "From Jane Addams."
- Folder 60: "Jane Addams" and "To Fit In" fragments, undated
- Folder 61: "Kitchenette Building", undated
- Folder 62: "Lady Delores", undated
- Folder 63-63: "Last Inauguration of Mayor Harold Washington", 1987, undated
- Box 238
- Folder 1-2: "Letter to Sister Anne", 1977
- Folder 3: "The Maid of Malvaron", 1939-1940
- Folder 4-5: "Martin Luther King Jr.", 1968, undated
- Folder 6: "Mayor Harold Washington", undated
- Folder 7: "Mayor Richard Gordon Hatcher", undated
- Folder 8: "In Memory of Henry Carter", 1947
- Folder 9: "A Mood of 1950", circa 1950
- Folder 10: "My Grandmother Is Waiting for Me to Come Home", undated
- Folder 11: "My Mother", 1975-1977
- Folder 12: "Nothing Matters" and other poems, 1936, 1997
- Includes "Some Eyes Do Not Bother," "Continuity," "Old Dreams," "Gypsy Girl," "April Fool’s Day," and "Moon Vision."
- Folder 13: "Of Frank Parker", 1991
- Folder 14: "Of the Young Dead", undated
- Folder 15-17: "An Old Black Woman, Homeless and Indistinct", 1992
- Folder 16 includes "Behind the Scenes." Folder 17 includes notes.
- Folder 18: "Our Lady of the Angels", undated
- Folder 19: "Patrick Bowie of Cabrini Green", 1986
- Folder 20: "Primer for Blacks", undated
- Folder 21: "Raymond Brooks II", 1990
- Also titled "Pete."
- Folder 22: "Sammy Chester Leaves 'Godspell' and Visits Upward Bound on a Lake Forest Lawn", undated
- Folder 23: "Shadows", undated
- Folder 24: "Speech to the Young, Speech to the Progress Toward", undated
- Folder 25: "Studs Terkel", undated
- Folder 26: "Telephone Conversations (After Discussing William Faulkner with George Kent)", 1980
- Folder 27: "Thinking of Elizabeth Steinberg", 1987
- Folder 28-29: "Thinking of Elizabeth Steinberg on Friday, November 13, 1987", 1987
- Folder 30-32: "The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves", undated
- Folder 33: "To Be Grown Up", 1991
- Folder 34: "To Beautiful Black Man", undated
- Folder 35: "To the Retiree", 1978
- Folder 36: "To the South Side Community Art Center (With Affectionate Gratitude)", undated
- Folder 37: "To Those of My Sisters Who Kept Their Naturals (Never to Look a Hot Comb in the Teeth)" and "Primer for Blacks", undated
- Folder 38: "Where, Oh Where" fragment, undated
- Folder 39: "White, Male, and Well-To-Do", 1993
- Folder 40: "To Whitney Young", 1981
- Folder 41-44: "Winnie" draft notebook, undated
- Folder 45: "The Womanhood", undated
- Includes "Beverly Hills, Chicago," "Riot: A Poem in Three Parts," "The Near- Johannesburg Boy," "Speech to the Young, Speech to the Progress-Toward," and "To the Young Who Want to Die."
- Folder 46: "When You Have Forgotten Sunday: The Love Story", 1999
- Folder 47: "Why I Keep Off Television", undated
- Folder 48: "You Think of the Dead", undated
- Folder 49: Poems grouping, 1988-1991
- Includes "Superbe," "Merle," "Ole Fella," and "Jane Addams, September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935."
- Sub-series 2: Poetry Drafts - Compilations
- Box 239
- Folder 1: Aloneness, undated
- Folder 2: Blacks, undated
- Folder 3-6: Bronzeville Boys and Girls, undated
- Folder 7-20: Children Coming Home, 1989-1991, undated
- Box 240
- Folder 1-2: Children Coming Home, 1993-1993, undated
- Folder 1 includes an envelope.
- File 3: Children Coming Home and other compilations
- Folder 3.1: Children Coming Home, undated
- Folder 3.2: In the Mecca, undated
- Folder 3.3: Gottschalk and the Grande Tarantelle, undated
- Folder 3.4: Illinois Poet Laureate Awards, 2000
- Includes poems authored by reward recipients in elementary and high school.
- Folder 3.5: Gottschalk and the Grande Tarantelle, undated
- Folder 4: Children Coming Home (partial), undated
- Folder 5: Introductory text for Family Pictures, 1994
- Folder 6-9: Gottschalk and the Grand Tarantelle, 1987-1988, undated
- Folder 10: In Montgomery (partial), 1998, undated
- Folder 11: In Montgomery first correction, undated
- Includes an envelope.
- Folder 12: In Montgomery (New York University folder), undated
- Includes an envelope, blank sheets of white paper, and a black “New York University” folder.
- Folder 13: In Montgomery, undated
- Includes an envelope.
- Box 241
- Folder 1: In Montgomery, undated
- Includes photocopies of In the Mecca and an envelope.
- Folder 2: In Montgomery “raw copy”, undated
- Includes photocopies of In the Mecca and an “In Montgomery (Raw copy.)” envelope.
- Folder 3: In Montgomery, undated
- Includes a portion of Gottschalk and the Grande Tarantelle.
- Folder 4: In Montgomery (partial), undated
- Folder 5: In Montgomery “old uncorrected version”, undated
- Includes an envelope.
- Folder 6: In Montgomery “original”, undated
- Includes a copy of Children Coming Home and an “Original of “In Montgomery” by Gwendolyn Brooks” envelope.
- Folder 7: In Montgomery list of contents, undated
- File 8: “Copies In Montgomery” envelope
- Folder 8.1: Pages 1-137, undated
- Folder 8.2: Pages 4-137, undated
- Box 242
- Folder 1: In Montgomery pages 1-137, undated
- Box 242, Folder 8.3
- Folder 2: “Copies of In Montgomery” envelope, undated
- Box 242, Folder 8.4. Contains a separation slip.
- Folder 3: In the Mecca galley proof, undated
- Folder 4: Winnie and Gottschalk and the Grande Tarantelle proofs, 1988
- Includes a letter from Mueller, L.W. (Harlo Printing Company) to Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Folder 5: Contents for “New Book”, undated
- Sub-series 3: Prose Drafts
- Box 243
- Folder 1: American Book Award speech, 1982
- Folder 2: “Ann Smith”, 1996
- Folder 3: “The Audre Lorde I Knew”, 1993
- Folder 4: “Autobiography”, undated
- Folder 5: “Ballad of Pearl May Lee” reflections, undated
- Folder 6: “Basic Influences”, 1994
- Includes “Beatrice Wims Stewart: May 1st, 1914-1994” (poem), a program for an event honoring Ralph Ellison at The American Academy of Arts and Letters, newspaper clippings, blank papers, loose magazine pages, and a file folder marked “National Book Foundation.” Contains separation sheets.
- Folder 7: Biographical sketch, early 1990s
- Folder 8-9: “The Black Family” speech, 1988?
- Folder 10: “Blacks”, 1989
- Folder 11-12: “Black Woman in Russia”, 1994?
- Both folders include a letter from Beatty, Mary Lou (National Endowment for the Humanities) to Gwendolyn Brooks. Folder 12 includes an envelope labeled “Original galleys for “Black Woman in Russia” in Humanities Mag. Note w/marginalia.”
- Folder 13: Black Writers Conference speech (Chicago State University), 1995
- Folder 14: “Books. Reading. Libraries.”, undated
- Folder 15-16: Broadside Press (Detroit) tenth anniversary statement, 1975
- Folder 15 includes a card from Broadside Press to Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Folder 17: “Broadside Treasury 1971-1975”, undated
- Folder 18: “Candace”, undated
- Includes a plastic bag.
- Folder 19: “Chicago, 2999”, undated
- Folder 20: Chicago Renaissance speech, 1998
- Includes two envelopes addressed to Gwendolyn Brooks, one from 1994.
- Folder 21: Chicago State University commencement speech, undated
- Folder 22: Chicago State University statements, 1996, undated
- Includes a “Chicago State University” folder.
- Folder 23: “Children of the Poor” reflections, undated
- Folder 24: “The City of Many Faces, a Chicago Collage” speech, undated
- Folder 25: “Congratulations—always—to Sokoni Karanja…”, 1996
- Folder 26: “The Day of the Gwendolyn”, 1985
- Includes a list of “Poets to Be Recorded,” a list of poets for “One-Day Poetry Festival” (1986), and a partial letter from Galbraith, Nancy (Library of Congress) to Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Folder 27: “Departing from your homes is no small matter…”, undated
- Folder 28: “D.H. Melhem”, undated
- Folder 29: “‘Ebonical’ Improvement”, 1997
- Includes a newspaper clipping on the Atlanta Black Arts Festival (1996).
- Folder 30: Ethelbert Miller introduction, undated
- Folder 31-32: Family Pictures speech, 1994
- Folder 31 includes a biographical sketch. The copies in folder 32 are in large print.
- Box 244
- Folder 1-2: Family Pictures, 1994
- Folder 1 includes a speech for the Jefferson Lecture series (National Endowment for the Humanities), “Black Woman in Russia” galleys and correspondence, a TV Guide clipping, and a FedEx mailer and receipt.
- Folder 3: “Familyhood”
- Folder 4: “For Autobiog.”, undated
- Folder 5: “For Autobiog. Part II”, undated
- Folder 6: Foreword for The Voice and Other Short Stories (Brooks, Keziah C.), 1974
- Folder 7: Frank Wills speech, circa 1970s
- Written on “Aurora” broadside (Broadside Press (Detroit)).
- Folder 8: “Furious Flower” speech, 1994
- Folder 9: “Garrison Keillor”, undated
- Folder 10: “Chapter Four: Little Mom”, undated
- Folder 11: “The Good Neighbor. Brooks Boswell: born 1898, died 1980”, 1980
- Folder 12: “Goodbye to Walter Bradford”, 1997
- Folder 13: Gordon Lish statement, undated
- Folder 14: Graduation speech, undated
- Folder 15: Grinnell College speech, undated
- Folder 16: Harold Washington statement, undated
- Folder 17: “Hillsdale Lecture”, 1998
- Includes “Alive in the Ice and Fire,” “I am still free verse and rhyme…,” and envelopes.
- Folder 18: “I am sensible of this honor…”, undated
- Folder 19: “If hope is a concept…”, undated
- Folder 20: “If I were to write…”, undated
- Folder 21: Illinois Poet Laureate Awards introductory speech, 2000?
- Folder 22: Illinois Poet Laureate Awards ceremony cues, 1989
- Folder 23: Illinois State Library dedication speech, 1990
- Folder 24: “I met Margaret Walker…”, 1998
- Folder 25: “Inauguration—Poets”, undated
- Includes “It Is Our Business to Be Bothered” torn from The Chicago Guide.
- Folder 26: “Infirm”, 1997
- Folder 27: “In Ghana”, undated
- Folder 28: “In Re: Hillary Clinton”, 1996
- Folder 29: “Intro: to poem ‘Jane Addams’”, undated
- Folder 30: Introduction for Harold Washington at Columbia College Chicago event, undated
- Includes statements on Paul Pearsall and Robert Wrigley.
- Folder 31: Introduction to The Columbia Book of Poetry: The Top 500 Poems, 1992?
- Folder 32: Introduction of children at the inauguration for an Illinois governor, undated
- Folder 33: “It Is 2000”, undated
- Folder 34: “Jack Mitchell”, undated
- Folder 35: “James Baldwin”, 1985
- Folder 36: “James Hill”, undated
- Folder 37: Jane Addams speech, undated
- Written on the back of the schedule of events for the 1993 Critical Issues Symposium.
- Folder 38: Jane Addams Park dedication speech, 1996
- Folder 39: John Trutter speech, undated
- Folder 40: “Keziah”, undated
- Folder 41: “Langston Hughes”, undated
- Folder 42: Langston Hughes Society address, 1982
- Includes a meeting program.
- Folder 43: “The Last Poets”, 1990
- Folder 44: “Leadership, Leadership”, 1979
- Folder 45: Leon Forrest remembrance speech, 1996
- Includes an event invitation.
- Folder 46: “Libraries”, 1992
- Box 245
- Folder 1: Lisa Steinberg speech, undated
- Folder 2: Literary Awards speech, undated
- Folder 3: Long program speech, undated
- Folder 4: “Molly Peacock”, undated
- Folder 5: “Most Workers In The Wild…”, undated
- Folder 6: “Movies”, undated
- Folder 7: “Much is said in this time about The Children…”, undated
- Folder 7a: “My mother, who always encouraged me to write, is herself…”, undated
- Folder 8: “My Tribute to President Johnetta Cole…”, 1986?
- Written on an order form for The David Company. Includes an “Important Letters” envelope.
- Folder 9: The Nation speech, undated
- Folder 10: “Nice to Everybody”, undated
- Folder 11: “Notes: Chicago State University”, undated
- Includes an envelope.
- Folder 12: “Notes on Nancy Galbraith”, undated
- Folder 13: “Of My Mother”, 1977
- Folder 14: On Brooks Press, undated
- Written on a schedule for the Writing and Publishing Colloquium.
- Folder 15: On Lord of the Flies (Golding, William), undated
- Folder 16: On George Orwell, undated
- Folder 17: On the “viewpoint woman” in “A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon”, undated
- Folder 18: On “We Real Cool”, undated
- Folder 19: “One of the Indelibles”, undated
- Folder 20: “A Piece of the Homeless”, undated
- Folder 21: “Poetry Class”, 1996
- Folder 22: “Poetry is not always nice…”, undated
- Includes an envelope.
- Folder 23: Powerful Littles speech, undated
- Folder 24: “The Progress”, undated
- Folder 25-26: Report from Part One, undated
- Folder 26 includes “Parts of: Afterword, Day of the Gwen, “I’m Here,” (etc.)” envelope.
- Folder 27-28: Report from Part Two, 1994, undated
- Folder 27 includes “Working Papers. “Report from Part Two,” “The Day of the Gwendolyn,” (I’m Here”), & Preliminary Matter” envelope. Folder 28 includes an envelope.
- Folder 29: Report from Part Two original typescript, undated
- Includes blue facial tissues and an “Original typed manuscript for Report from Part 2” plastic mailer.
- Box 246
- Folder 1: Report from Part Two corrected manuscript, undated
- Includes a brochure for a speaking event at Lake Michigan College and a “Done. Report from Part II. This goes to Brenda & Nora for computering. (all corrected.)” envelope.
- Folder 2: Report from Part Two, 1992, undated
- Includes a letter from Ridland, John (University of California, Santa Barbara) to Gwendolyn Brooks, a “Sift through later” envelope, and a “Report from Part Two (wildly disorganized. Needs much work) –Gwendolyn Brooks” accordion file.
- Folder 3: Report from Part Two, undated
- Includes an “Originals: (“Report from Part Two” material.) envelope.
- Folder 4: Report from Part Two “Original. Incomplete”, undated
- Folder 5: Report from Part Two “Copy I”, undated
- Folder 6: Report from Part Two reference materials, undated
- Includes calendar pages from April and May 1986; a letter from Blakely, Henry to Randall, Dudley; and a “Report from Part Two (reference material). (Also, a sheet of plans for a little book, “Keziah.”) envelope.
- Folder 7-8: Report from Part Two complete manuscript with edits, undated
- Box 247
- Folder 1: Report from Part Two complete manuscript with edits, undated
- Includes a “Report from Part Two” envelope.
- Folder 2: Report from Part Two early printings, undated
- Includes “Report from Part II. (Early printings to be corrected.)” envelope.
- Folder 3: Report from Part Two floppy disk, 1995
- Includes a 3.5” micro floppy disk mailer.
- Folder 4: Report from Part Two “extras”, undated
- Includes an “Extras (Report from Part Two) envelope.
- Folder 5: “Requiem Before Revival”, 1980?
- Photocopy from Primer for Blacks.
- Folder 5a: “The Rise of Maud Martha: Theme”, undated
- Folder 6: Senior Adventure speech, undated
- Folder 7: “She Was Raised in the Slums”, undated
- Folder 8: “Six Chicano Poets”, undated
- Includes a grouping of statements on various modern poets.
- Folder 9: “So Bright the Day”, undated
- Includes “Tradition” (poem) and “Vacation” (poem). Contains a plastic bag.
- Folder 10: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale speech, 1998
- Includes business cards.
- Folder 11: “Speech at George Kent’s Funeral”, 1982?
- Folder 12: Speeches grouping, undated
- Includes “For newsletter (Randall),” “How Martin Luther King…” (on August Wilson), “A nuclear blast would abolish everything…,” “To You,” and “I am grateful to everyone… It is exciting to be honored.”
- Folder 13: “A Study of the Store-Front Church”, undated
- Folder 14: “To Fit In”, 1987
- Folder 15: “To Fit In”, 1993
- Includes a commencement program for Carleton College and “Collage for Today.”
- Folder 16-17: “To Fit In”, undated
- Folder 18: To Involve You with Poetry speech, undated
- Folder 19: “To the Pro-Lifers”, undated
- Folder 20: Tribute Night speech, undated
- Folder 21: Turning 80 speech, 1997?
- Folder 22: University Students speech, undated
- Folder 23: Val Gray Ward speech, 1998
- Folder 24: “Useful ‘References’”, undated
- Folder 25: “WE”, undated
- Box 248
- Folder 1: “What Price Cowardice”, circa 1953
- Folder 2: “Winnie Mandela”, undated
- Folder 3: “Words”, 1992, undated
- Folder 4: Short biographies for Wright Morris and Dudley Randall, undated
- Folder 5: “Yes!—Jane Addams would have wanted to be remembered…”, undated
- Folder 6: “You young people…”, undated
- Possibly a portion of “To Fit in.”
- Folder 7: Zebra Stripes speech, 1983
- Folder 8: Editorial comments on multiple poems, undated
- Includes “Kingdom of Heaven,” “Negro Hero,” “Lago,” “Furlougher(?) Report,” “A Bet for A Levy(?) Lady,” “The Specimens,” “Death of the Dinosaur,” “The Kingdom of Heaven,” and “Lost Deare(?)”.
- Sub-series 4: Interviews
- Box 249
- Folder 1: Angle, Paul (corrected typescript), 1967
- Includes correspondence between Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Angle, and W. Ronald Sims.
- Folder 2: Angle, Paul, We Asked Gwendolyn Brooks About the Creative Environment in Illinois (booklet published by Illinois Bell Telephone Company), undated
- Folder 3-5: Brooks, Gwendolyn (photocopies of self-interview with edits), undated
- Folder 4 includes a newspaper clipping and an “Agenda for Gwendolyn Brooks.” Folder 5 includes a 1984 excerpt published in The Tri-Quarterly (Chicago).
- Folder 6: Fox, Robert and Egejuru, Phanuel, “My Address Has Changed”, 1984
- Includes copy of Gwendolyn Brooks letter to Philip L. Gerber (English Department, State University College).
- Folder 7-8: Hawkins, B. Denise, 1998-1999
- Folder 7 includes correspondence with Joanne Gabbin (Honors Program, James Madison University) and a note addressed to Edward Richardson. Folder 8 includes an edited composite copy.
- Folder 9: Madhubuti, Haki (Black Books Bulletin), 1974
- Folder 10: Miller, E. Ethelbert and Bourne, St. Clair, “Gwendolyn Brooks on Langston Hughes”, 1985
- Folder 11: Scheele, Roy (Poets & Writers), undated
- Completed in manuscript by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Folder 12: Unknown, undated
- Includes questions on personal qualities, likes, dislikes, and values.
- Folder 13: Unknown, undated
- Includes questions that seek opinions on the fields of contemporary art and literature.
- Folder 14: Unknown, undated
- Includes questions that seek opinions on the field of contemporary Black poetry, insight into Gwendolyn Brooks’ poetic process and literary interests, and advice for other writers.
- Sub-series 5: Notes/Jottings
- Box 250
- Folder 1: “Also paid on August 24, 1982…”, undated
- Folder 2: “Bishop College ‘Demands’”, undated
- Folder 3: Black Writers Conference file, 1995, undated
- Folder 4: “The David Company (See Cynthia.)” envelope, undated
- Folder 5: Diet and grocery, 1999
- Folder 6: Diet and grocery, 2000, undated
- Folder 7-8: Diet and grocery, undated
- Folder 9: “Eddie", undated
- Folder 10: “I had to finish buying…”, 1959, 1998, undated
- Folder 11: “Important Notes (Do not destroy)” envelope, 1963, 1972-1977, 1981, 1996, undated
- Includes “The Assassination of John F. Kennedy,” “Primer for Blacks,” and newspaper clippings.
- Folder 12: “Important” envelope, 1995-1997
- Includes newspaper clippings.
- Folder 13: “Important ‘Scraps’ for Poetry ‘Old’ etc.” envelope, 1971, 1990, undated
- Includes interview Q & A.
- Folder 14: “Lawrence Brian Jr.”, undated
- Folder 15: List of names, undated
- Folder 16: Music and prose, 1989, 1993, 1998, undated
- Folder 17: “Notes For Autobiography II,” packing list, quotes, 1977, undated
- Includes notes regarding the health of Brooks, Keziah Wims.
- Box 251
- Folder 1: “All Taken Care Of,” “Copyrights,” “Dear Nora—,” “Financial assistance,” publications, and contests, 1993, undated
- Folder 2: “Vegetable Store,” “Present Notes (June 19, 1981),” “Black Love,”, 1981, undated
- Includes separation sheet to restricted.
- Folder 3: White folder, 1988, undated
- Topics include news and newspaper clippings, quotes, recipes and diet, race, “Water Power,” “A Farmer,” and letter to Madhubuti, Haki. Includes separation sheets for Boxes 250 and restricted.
- Folder 4: Regan, Ronald; “When I visit a campus,” and quotes, undated
- Folder 5: “The Chicago Network” and “Taxes (last April’s), undated
- Folder 6: Contests, news and newspaper clippings, family, 1973-1980
- Includes separation sheet to restricted.
- Folder 7: Quotes, 1980-1981
- Folder 8: “Contemporary Notes,” quotes, groceries and diet, inauguration of Washington, Harold, 1981, 1983
- Includes separation sheet to restricted.
- Folder 9: Quotes, groceries, undated
- Includes separation sheet to restricted.
- Folder 10: Quotes, news and newspaper clippings, and groceries, 1982, undated
- Folder 11: Poetry and prose drafts, quotes, 1987-1988, undated
- Folder 12: Quotes, 1964-1965, 1988, 1996, undated
- Includes note regarding death of Blakely, Henry II.
- Folder 13: “‘OLD’ – by Gwendolyn Brooks” envelope, undated
- Folder 14: Quotes; diet and grocery; “Beryl notes;” and finances, 1967, 1974, 1985-1998
- Includes a letter from Gwendolyn Brooks to Smith, Dorothy. Includes note on evaluating poetry.
- Folder 15: Quotes; diet and grocery; finances; and moving, 1992-1995, undated
- Includes separation sheet to restricted.
- Folder 16: Quotes, finances, and contact information, 1980, 1992, 1994, 1996, undated
- Includes separation sheet to Box 250 OS.
- Box 252
- Folder 1: Blakely, Henry II; quotes; contact information, 1973, 1984, 1995, 1997, undated
- Folder 2: Quotes; diet; prose drafts; contact information; “What is Poetry?,” Black History Month; Blakely, Nora Brooks, 1989, 1991, 1994-1995, undated
- Folder 3: Quotes and newspaper clippings, 1979, 1991, 1994-1995, undated
- Includes separation sheet to restricted.
- Folder 4: Quotes, prose drafts, and newspaper clipping, 1987, 1994, 2000, undated
- Includes separation sheet to Box 250 OS.
- Folder 5: “For Children Coming Home,” groceries, prose and poetry, quotes, and contests, 1989-1990, 1994, 1998, 2000, undated
- Folder 6: “Affirmative Action;” Blakely, Nora Brooks; “Honorary Degrees;” 1973, 1986, 1996-quotes; health; Wims, Keziah; quotes: and “Medley”, 1994, 1997, undated
- Folder 7: Quotes, “Mama’s Possible Gift List,” A Story”, 1998, undated
- Folder 8: Prose and poetry drafts, “My Mother’s Day Gifts From Nora", 1988, 1991, 1998, undated
- Folder 9: Quotes; diet; prose drafts; “Put back in tablet;” Madhubuti, Haki; “Nora: Important;” contests; and “Bookcrafters", 1993, 1995, undated
- Folder 10: Quotes; health; Jackson, Mahalia; Washington, Harold; groceries; prose drafts; “Feminism;” Morrison, Toni, 1972, 1978, 1993, 1996-1998, undated
- Folder 11: Quotes, Jefferson Lecture, health, 1994?, 1988, undated
- Folder 12: Zitch, Beryl; prose drafts; interview requests, 1993, undated
- Box 253
- Folder 1: Prose drafts and quotes, 1998, undated
- Folder 2: Quotes, Keziah Brooks Memorial Awards, “Miscellaneous,” news, 1974, undated
- Includes newspaper clippings.
- Folder 3: Quotes, “My life ‘as a poet,’” “About Desperate Critics Who Have Run Out of Material,” Lunchtime Reading Series, 1986, 1992, undated
- Folder 4: Quotes, phone number and addresses, “We Real Cool” note, 1994-1995, 2000, undated
- Folder 5: Prose notes, notes on “We Real Cool,” and Moorhead State University event program, 1985, 1995, undated
- Folder 6: Diet and health, public engagements, “She Was Raised In The Slums", undated
- Includes newspaper clippings. Includes separation sheets to Box 520 OS.
- Folder 7: Gwendolyn Brooks Cultural Center event program, prose drafts, poems by school children, 1999, undated
- Folder 8: Prose drafts, “Thanksgiving Menu,” television channels, and empty notebook, undated
- Folder 9: Groceries and health; prose drafts; contact information; “Beyond Discrimination” panel discussion flyer, “Gwendolyn” by Blakely, Henry; “Let’s consider “Black English, 1993, undated
- Folder 10: Notes on Henry and Nora Blakely, prose and poem drafts, “Old,” “Jane Addams” notes, “Instruction to Myself,” public engagements, 1989, 1994-1995, 1997
- Includes pre-visit questionnaire for visit to the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.
- Folder 11: “Keziah Brooks,” groceries, news, “Of The Dead 1987", 1978, 1985-1988, 1990-1993, undated
- Includes separation sheets to restricted.
- Folder 12: Correspondence, prose and poetry drafts, “The Decision of Senator Simon,” “Drugs", 1992-1994
- Folder 13: Quotes, “My lovely shells…” and photos, prose drafts, “Notes from ‘Black Issues Forum'", 1993-1996
- Folder 14: Moreau, Louis; personal observations, 1997-2000
- Folder 15: Quotes, contact information, 1984, undated
- Includes separation sheet to restricted.
- Folder 16: Quotes, groceries, 1998, undated
- Folder 17: Materials relating to visit to Emory Summer Writers’ Institute & Festival, “Words,” “For Sara Miller, Sculptor,” “Martin Luthor King Jr.”, 1968, undated
- Box 254
- Folder 1: Quotes, “Notes from Black Writer’s Conference,” public engagement, health, 1999, undated
- Folder 2: Financial, mini calendar, newspaper clippings, 1969, 1977, 1979, undated
- Contains separation sheet to restricted.
- File 3: “Notes", 1971-1973, 1981, 1984, undated
- Includes “A Capsule Course in Black Poetry Writing;” quotes; “As The World Turns,” “Richard Wright’s ‘Black Boy,’” contact information, groceries, June 1972 pocket daytimer. Includes separation sheets to restricted and Box 520 OS.
- File 4: Unidentified grouping, undated
- Includes quotes and groceries.
- File 5: “Miscellaneous ‘Last Visit To Vi", undated
- File 6: “Notes” August 10, 1998 Newsweek magazine (tucked in), 1968, 1986, 1991, 1998, undated
- Includes “To Fit In,” speech to Gradwater.
- File 7: “South Africa", 1985
- File 8: “Notes on Poetry", 1988, undated
- Includes “Rap,” “Bad Words,” and interview answers. Includes programs for Illinois College Martin & Gertrude Hahn Lecture in Comparative Literature and Chocolate Chips Theatre Programs for Kwanza, Black History Month, and beyond. Includes separation sheet to Box 520 OS.
- File 9: Rubber-banded unidentified grouping, 1997
- Includes groceries and shopping lists. Includes separation sheets to restricted.
- File 10: “Cards etc", undated
- Includes business cards, “Rap,” and newspaper clipping.
- Sub-series 6: Notebooks
- Box 255
- Folder 1: Small blue spiral notebook, early undated
- Folder 2: Writings inserted into small blue spiral notebook, early undated
- Includes "Love Is Blind" and "Belulah."
- Folder 3: "Class Autographs – Scholarly Memories of G.B. Class of '29, 7A", 1929, 1970
- Folder 4: "Poems by G.B." booklet, circa 1936
- Item 1: "Contents", undated
- Item 2: “Clouds”, undated
- Item 3: “The Postman Has Passed”, undated
- Item 4: “Gypsy Girl”, undated
- Item 5: “Winter Singer”, undated
- Item 6: “Old Dreams”, undated
- Item 7: “Some Eyes Do Not Bother”, undated
- Item 8: “April Fool’s Day (April 1, 1936)”, 1936
- Item 9: “Over”, undated
- Item 10: “Continuity”, undated
- Item 11: “My Books”, undated
- Item 12: “I Wish That God Would Come”, undated
- Item 13: “Since There Is Always Poetry”, undated
- Item 14: “Prayer”, undated
- Item 15: “To A Baby”, undated
- Item 16: “Home”, undated
- Item 17: “It Is The Same”, undated
- Item 18: “Daisy”, undated
- Item 19: “Star Love”, undated
- Item 20: “Of Flesh Death-Glorified”, undated
- Item 21: “Reunion”, undated
- Item 22: “Nothing Matters”, undated
- Item 23: “I Won’t Go By The Cemetery Anymore”, undated
- Item 24: “The Story-Book Queen”, undated
- Item 25: “You Need Not Bring Me Roses”, undated
- Item 26: “Shadows”, undated
- Folder 5: "Poetry Book by Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks", 1933
- Item 1: “April,” “Fire Fancies,” and “A Window View”, undated
- Item 2: “Forgive and Forget” and “Lamentation for a Pet”, undated
- Item 3: “Life and Death” and “The Song of the Robin”, undated
- Item 4: “Rain and Sunshine,” “The Busy Clock,” and “The Baker’s Bread”, undated
- Item 5: “Stream” and “Autumn Leaves”, undated
- Item 6: “Autumn,” “Halloween,” and “Graduation Wishes for a Boy”, undated
- Item 7: “Grandmother” and “When at Last the Winter’s Over”, undated
- Item 8: “A House” and “Two Lives”, undated
- Item 9: “Grandfather” and “The Substitute”, undated
- Item 10: “Pleasure,” “Christmastime Kindness,” “The Carol Singers,” and “The Treasure Hunt”, undated
- Item 11: “The Forest Song,” “Farewell to Summer,” and “Summer”, undated
- Item 12: “The Song of Victory,” “An Easter Song,” and “Mary Nell”, undated
- Item 13: “Lullabye,” “The Easter Rabbit,” and “The Four Gossiping Winds”, undated
- Item 14: “Ambition,” “The Seed,” and “Trying”, undated
- Item 15: “The Sleepy Boy” and “The Mistake”, undated
- Item 16: “Jake,” “Life,” and “March Wind”, undated
- Item 17: “A Star,” “Fairies,” “I Will,” and “Night”, undated
- Item 18: “Dawn of Spring,” “Best Wishes,” and “Day”, undated
- Item 19: “A Wish,” “An Artificial Rose,” and “The Bird Who Brought Life”, undated
- Item 20: “To a Child” and “The Christmas Snow”, undated
- Item 21: “Mary Lee,” “Mother,” and “Repentance”, undated
- Item 22: “The Last Opportunity,” “Bark,” and “Wait”, undated
- Item 23: “The Fountain,” “Afternoon and Evening,” and “Friends”, undated
- Item 24: “Escape,” “Nature,” and “Morning”, undated
- Item 25: “Marjorie Bell” and “Hail to the Flag”, undated
- Item 26: “Two Mothers,” “The Hose,” and “Never Today”, undated
- Item 27: “Past and Future,” “Vacation Time,” and “Vacation”, undated
- Item 28: “The Unsung Fathers” and “The Blessing”, undated
- Item 29: “Death,” “Colors,” and “The Unbeliever”, undated
- Item 30: “Heat,” “Heart Wound,” “Baby,” and “Music + Beauty”, undated
- Item 31: “Seasons,” “A Better Road,” and “One Source”, undated
- Item 32: “My Picture,” “Ink,” and “Magic Minutes”, undated
- Item 33: “Bedtime,” “Champlain By Rainlight,” and “Harsh Words”, undated
- Item 34: “Road Accident” and “Four Sons”, undated
- Item 35: “Sunshine and Smiles,” “My Aunt,” and “Riches and Poverty”, undated
- Item 36: “Playtime” and “Sonny Boy”, undated
- Item 37: “Today,” “Passing Time,” and “Kindness”, undated
- Item 38: “Abroad” and “Dreams”, undated
- Item 39: “Equality,” “Time,” and “Song of a Schoolboy”, undated
- Item 40: “Chicago” and “Smoke”, undated
- Item 41: “In and Out” and “Solange”, undated
- Item 42: “A Sabbath Prayer” and “Norma”, undated
- Item 43: “A Halloween Riddle,” “The Phantom,” and “Puppies”, undated
- Item 44: “The Fated Fowl,” “Christmas Rejoicing,” and “Light”, undated
- Item 45: “The Patriot,” “Flower + Thorn,” and “Dawn + Dusk”, undated
- Item 46: “To Reverend J.C. Nicholson” and “Thanksgiving”, undated
- Item 47: “Amusement” and “Mood Music”, undated
- Item 48: “Friends,” “Snow,” and “Falling Snow”, undated
- Item 49: “Laura,” “The Wise Little Boy,” and “Rainfall”, undated
- Item 50: “The Christmas Spirit,” “Two Little Girls,” and “Christmas Time”, undated
- Item 51: “The Birth of a Storm” and “In Heaven”, undated
- Item 52: “Green Christmas,” “Conquered,” and “Celebration”, undated
- Item 53: “Gossip” and “Madame Sun”, undated
- Item 54: “The World of Nature” and “Work”, undated
- Item 55: “To a Bird” and “Rich Girl, Poor Girl”, undated
- Item 56: “A Wanderer”, undated
- Folder 6: 3-ring black notebook of poems, 1933-1936
- Item 1: “Clouds”, 1933
- Item 2: "Wealth", 1934
- Item 3: “Another Girl", 1935
- Item 4: “Myself", 1936
- Item 5: “It Is The Same” and “Letter", 1936
- Item 6: “Mothering Mothers” and “Braver Than They Think", 1936
- Item 7: “Continuity", 1936
- Item 8: “Southern Lynching", undated
- Item 9: “Blend momently with human blood", 1936
- Item 10: “Shadows", 1935
- Item 11: “A Thousand Cheers", 1935
- Item 12: “For My Friend” and “Wish", 1936
- Item 13: Incomplete poem, 1936
- Item 14: Incomplete poem, 1936
- Item 15: “Exaltation", 1935
- Item 16: “Mention Of Your Name” and “My Heart Is In My Eyes", 1935
- Item 17: “Always” and “Relief", 1936
- Item 18: “Lesson” and “Past", 1936
- Item 19: “Mouse” and “In All This World", 1935
- Item 20: “Shut Out” and “Gas", 1935
- Item 21: “Now Every Hour” and “Let Them Laugh", 1936
- Item 22: “Eternal” and “Do Not Pull Her Hand Away", 1936
- Item 23: “Banner” and “When Death Comes", 1934-1935
- Item 24: “Thinking of You Tonight” and “Escape", 1935-1936
- Item 25: “Banner", 1936, 1964
- Includes annotation from Gwendolyn Brooks in 1964.
- Item 26: “Province” and “On Future Lose, Through Death Of Parental Love", 1936
- Item 27: “Drab", 1936
- Item 28: “Hidden Memories” and “Strength Evanescent", 1936
- Item 29: “Old Dreams", 1935
- Item 30: “Fever", 1935
- Item 31: “A Little Kindness", 1935
- Item 32: “Darling", 1935
- Item 33: “Kismet", 1935, 1964
- Includes annotation from Gwendolyn Brooks from 1964.
- Item 34: “The Poison Plant", 1935
- Item 35: “Selfish” and “Stare Tonight", 1935
- Item 36: "Decay” and “Love Will Find A Way", 1935
- Item 37: “The Empty Cup", 1935, 1964
- Includes annotation from Gwendolyn Brooks from 1964.
- Item 38: “Sonnets For Beatrice Abbott", 1935
- Item 39: “One Thing Belongs To Me", 1935
- Item 40: “Escape", 1935
- Item 41: “Ice – quiet", 1935
- Item 42: “Winter Warmth", 1935
- Item 43: “Star Testimony” and “A Thousand Aches", 1935
- Item 44: “Negroid” and “Resignation", 1935
- Item 45: “In Quest Of Joy", 1935
- Item 46: “Let It Pass", 1936
- Item 47: “Disintegration", 1935
- Item 48: “Plea For Another Girl” and “More Than You Believe", 1935
- Item 49: “To My Parents” and “The Selfish One", 1935
- Item 50: “Spring", 1935
- Item 51: “Now I Know” and “I Lit A Match", 1935
- Item 52: “Completion", 1935
- Item 53: “Prison", 1933
- Item 54: “Compassionless and Harsh", 1935
- Item 55: "They Came With Smiling Lips To Me", 1935
- Item 56: “Music and Clouds", 1935
- Item 57: “Genius", 1935
- Item 58: “Sunday In April” and “Beauty", 1935
- Item 59: “Aftergloom” and “Pruce", 1935
- Item 60: “Words for Mussolini", 1935
- Item 61: “Padlocked” and “Plaint", 1935
- Item 62: “Nocturne", 1935
- Item 63: “Fan’(?) Gertrude (For Gertrude Price)”, 1935
- Item 64: “The Supplication (A Ballad)", 1935
- Item 65: “Strange Gift", 1935
- Item 66: “The Smallest Things", 1935
- Item 67: “Majority” and “I Cannot See Your Heart", 1935
- Item 68: “Faith” and “Picnic", 1935
- Item 69: “One Hundred And Fifty Years", 1936
- Item 70: “Let Me Not Be Resigned", 1936
- Item 71: “Floors", 1935
- Item 72: “Alteration", 1935
- Item 73: “Through All My Life", 1935
- Item 74: “Teachers", 1936
- Item 75: “The Little Flowers", 1935
- Item 76: “Riches In The Morning", 1935
- Item 77: “Imperfections", 1935
- Item 78: “All Of My Works Will Die” and “I Would Not Have It Change", 1936
- Item 79: “With Trees After Storm, 1936
- Item 80: “A Hundred Times", 1935
- Item 81: “April", 1935
- Item 82: “Possession", 1935
- Item 83: “The Bright Star", 1935
- Item 84: “Dawn", 1935
- Item 85: “Beauty", 1935
- Item 86: “Snowdrop", 1935
- Item 87: “Dusk", 1935
- Item 88: “Need", 1935
- Item 89: “Two Years Now", 1935
- Item 90: “A Country Place", 1935
- Item 91: “World End” and You Say I Am In Love", 1935
- Item 92: “I Was Not Born For Happiness", 1936
- Item 93: “Enough” and “Letter", 1936
- Item 94: “A Picture Of Joseph S. Cotter, Jr", 1936
- Item 95: “City Sidewalks” and “A Patriot, To His Flag", 1936
- Item 96: “Regret” and “Paradox", 1936
- Item 97: "Shut In A Prison Cell", 1936
- Item 98: “People", 1936
- Item 99: “So Much Of Bitterness", 1936
- Item 100: “Today and Yesterday” and “Keep Faith", 1935
- Item 101: “Her Last” and “Four Hours", 1935
- Item 102: “This Present Dark,” and “Not In The Face Of Failure", 1936
- Item 103: “April Fool’s Day", 1936
- Item 104: “Now I Live", 1936
- Item 105: “Prospect Of Fall” and “For Myrtle Wilson", 1936
- Item 106: “The Assassin", 1935
- Item 107: “Theories", 1935
- Item 108: “Forgotten Possession", 1935
- Item 109: “What Shall I Do” and “Hour", 1935
- Item 110: “Afraid” and “Crippled", 1936
- Item 111: “A Brown Girl", 1936
- Item 112: “A Christmas Story” and “Evanescent", 1934-1935
- Item 113: “The Last Visit", 1935
- Item 114: “Omnipresent", 1935
- Item 115: “Music Is Not Music", 1934
- Item 116: “Transformation", 1934
- Item 117: “Now Shall I Fear", 1935
- Item 118: “Second Altar", 1935
- Item 119: “Nocturne", 1935
- Item 120: “Sonnet", 1935
- Item 121: “The Story Book Queen", 1935
- Item 122: “After", 1935
- Item 123: “Put On Your Little Red Sweater", 1935
- Item 124: “I won’t Go By The Cemetery Anymore", 1935
- Item 125: “Dimness” and “Uncertain Love", 1935
- Item 126: “Dark and Light” and “Sunshine Fades", 1935
- Item 127: “Old Age", 1935
- Item 128: “A Smile", 1935
- Item 129: “Faith", 1935
- Item 130: “Belief", 1935
- Item 131: “Never Enough", 1934
- Item 132: “Journey To A Far Realm", 1934
- Item 133: “Margy Is A Brilliant Girl", 1934
- Item 134: “In Memory of Mme. Ezella Mathis Carter", 1934
- Item 135: “Alone In Twilight” and “Night Beauty, August", 1934
- Item 136: “Snow", 1934
- Item 137: “Commencement” and “Snowdrops and Sunbeams", 1934
- Item 138: “Sally” and “What’s In A Frown", 1934
- Item 139: “Ignorance Is Bliss", 1934
- Item 140: “Postscript To Suffering", 1934
- Item 141: “Virgils’ Aeneid Book III", 1934
- Item 142: “Stars” and “Christmas Sentiment", 1934
- Item 143: “Franklin Delano Roosevelt", 1934
- Item 144: “Friend” and “Secret", 1934
- Item 145: "Come Spring", 1934
- Item 146: “To The Hinderer", 1933
- Item 147: “Storm” and “There Is No Spirit", 1934
- Item 148: “I Would Not Love You As I Do” and “Stars Tonight", 1935
- Item 149: “Decay", 1935
- Item 150: “Hope” and “Shell", 1935
- Item 151: “Before Dawn", 1935
- Item 152: “A Twilight Hour” and “Love Will Find A Way", 1935
- Item 153: “Baby” and “How Many Times", 1934
- Item 154: “You Keep Returning", 1934
- Item 155: Baby Wisdom” and “Bottom", 1935
- Item 156: “Love’s Dawn", 1934
- Item 157: “Gift", 1934
- Item 158: “He Loved Me Once” and “Christmas Morning", 1934-1935
- Item 159: “Noon Vision” and “Description", 1933
- Item 160: “Warm Light Peers Down", 1936
- Item 161: “Two Paths", 1936
- Item 162: "First Acquaintance", 1935
- Item 163: “Infatuation", 1935
- Item 164: “How Little", 1935
- Item 165: “December", 1935
- Item 166: “Let Her Not Mean So Much To You", 1936
- Item 167: “Wise” and “College Whimsy", 1936
- Item 168: “We All Are Trackmen In A Race", 1935
- Item 169: “An Falstaff: Humor In Tragedy (After skimming King Henry II)” and “We", 1935-1936
- Item 170: “No Second Love", 1935
- Item 171: "Questions", 1935
- Item 172: "Jingling Judy’s Journal", 1935
- Item 173: "Song For Father’s Day", 1936
- Item 174: "The Dark Lover” and “The Four Walls", 1935
- Item 175: "“Red Tape", 1935
- Item 176: “Midnight", 1935
- Item 177: “Fragment” and “A Piece of Music and A Piece Of Joy", 1935
- Item 178: “Twilight Observation” and “Change"
- Item 179: Oh, Lay It Roughly In The Cold, Cold Clay", 1935
- Item 180: “Solitary” and “Rather That You Look All My Wealth", 1935
- Item 181: "Too Near” and “Love and Friendship", 1935
- Item 182: "Penitent", 1935
- Item 183: “Silence” and “Resentment", 1935
- Item 184: “Rose” and “Sunshine and Shade", 1935
- Item 185: “Compensation", 1935
- Item 186: “My Heart Is Not Enough” and “Lament", 1935
- Item 187: “Your Love And A Dusty Wind", 1936
- Item 188: “On Loving The World” and “For The Disclaimers(?)”, 1935
- Item 189: “There Is No Rest", 1935
- Item 190: "Cinquains", 1935
- Item 191: “Mate", 1935
- Item 192: "Off-Note", 1935
- Item 193: “Bells” and “Faith", 1934
- Item 194: “Life Without Love” and Inscription", 1934
- Item 195: “First Requisite", 1935
- Item 196: “Last Resort” and “I Have A Need For Tears", 1935
- Item 197: “A Quiet Soul", 1935
- Item 198: “Pulse", 1935
- Item 199: “Tears", 1935
- Item 200: “Flutterin’", 1935
- Item 201: “A light", 1935
- Item 202: “Who Dreads To Quit The Earth” and “How Can I Keep My Mind Away", 1935
- Item 203: “Showers", 1935
- Item 204: “She", 1935
- Item 205: “Engagement” and “Definition Of Love", 1935
- Item 206: “I Must Be As My Cat", 1935
- Item 207: “The Tower” and “Words", 1935
- Item 208: “Plaint", 1935
- Item 209: “Return", 1935
- Item 210: "Panacea” and “Tears For The Grass", 1935
- Item 211: “Minutes and Seconds", 1935
- Item 212: “Give Me The Sweet Belief In You” and “It’s All I Ask", 1935
- Item 213: “Inheritance” and “Now What Light Is", 1935
- Item 214: “Warm Weather Medley” and “Orison", 1935
- Item 215: “If You Should See A Think, Dark Veil", 1935
- Item 216: “Voice” and “Eyes and Ears", 1935
- Item 217: "Bestow Some Token” and “It Used To Pain Me Much", 1935
- Item 218: “Rejoice That You Have What You Have", 1935
- Item 219: “The Quiet Room", 1935
- Item 220: “Flesh", 1935
- Item 221: “Reflection, August” and “August Mood", 1934
- Item 222: “Song", 1934
- Item 223: “Beggar Woman” and “Speed", 1934
- Item 224: “Question", 1934
- Item 225: “I Never Heard” and “Sudden Memory", 1934
- Item 226: “Song For --- Louis", 1935
- Item 227: “Flies” and “He Wasn’t Here", 1935
- Item 228: “I Send My Heart, 1935
- Item 229: "Clay Molder", 1934
- Item 230: “Reflection", 1936
- Item 231: “Teachers", 1936
- Item 232: “Cold” and “After Christmas", 1934
- Item 233: “Disillusionment", 1935
- Item 234: “Hemlock” and “I Love You", 1934
- Item 235: “A Pin", 1934
- Item 236: “Life Is too Short", 1934
- Item 237: “Thanksgiving Day", 1934
- Item 238: “Song", 1934
- Item 239: “Prayer” and “Wonder", 1934
- Item 240: “Life and Death", 1934
- Item 241: “Meditation", 1934
- Item 242: “When Death Comes” and “Old Age", 1934
- Item 243: “A Song For Thanksgiving Day", 1934
- Item 244: “Two Sides To Every Story", 1934
- Item 245: “Love (A)” and “Love (B)", 1934
- Item 246: “Without You” and “I Loved You Best", 1934-1935
- Item 247: “Dream Love” and “Semblance", 1934-1935
- Item 248: “Knowledge", 1934
- Item 249: “Love Quatrains", 1936
- Item 250: “Flesh", 1935
- Item 251: “Something Finer", 1936
- Item 252: “Bitter Fruit” and “Star Love", 1935
- Item 253: “Vacation” and “Keep Your Kiss", 1935
- Item 254: “Song” and “Chill", 1935
- Item 255: “My Heart Is Yours” and “Thriving Plant", 1935
- Item 256: "Plaint” and “A Little Thing", 1935
- Item 257: “An Answer” and “Quenched", 1935
- Folder 7: 3-ring black notebook of “Flexible” poems, 1938-1940
- Item 1: “Last End", 1938
- Item 2: “Why Poets Write Poems", 1938
- Item 3: “To Herman Lawrence", 1938
- Item 4: “Of Lavinia Chapman", 1938
- Item 5: “To Bernard Goss", 1938
- Item 6: “To Margaret Taylor", 1938
- Item 7: “To One She Wishes She Did Not Love", 1938
- Includes later annotation by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Item 8: “For Theries C. Lindsey – Flowers In The Road—", 1938
- Item 9: “The Crazy Woman", 1938
- Includes later annotation by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Item 10: “Bones", 1938
- Item 11: “Sara-Beth", 1938
- Item 12: “You Never Know When Love Is Coming", 1938
- Includes later annotation by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Item 13: “Truth", 1938
- Includes later annotation by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Item 14: “The Little Clock", 1938
- Item 15: “The Time", 1938
- Item 16: “Nothing To Say", 1938
- Item 17: “Old Laughter", 1939
- Item 18: “Bareness", 1939
- Item 19: "November"
- Item 20: “I Used To Play With Paper Dolls", 1938
- Item 21: “I Like A Bit of Scantiness", 1939
- Item 22: “Death And Sun And Air", 1939
- Item 23: Lana Trail", 1939
- Item 24: “Tradition", 1938
- Item 25: “Gray Old Yesterdays", 1938
- Item 26: “Lion. Robin.”, 1939
- Item 27: “Dizziness", 1939
- Item 28: “Elementals", 1939
- Item 29: “I Weary of Confusion", 1939
- Item 30: “It Is the Very Gold of Joy", 1939
- Item 31: “She Has Wept For Love", 1939
- Item 32: “I Shall Write No Letter", 1938
- Item 33: “Life Hits and Runs", 1938
- Item 34: “Failure", 1940
- Item 35: “One Wonders At The Thoughts That Crawl", 1940
- Item 36: “Road", 1938
- Item 37: “Thinking", 1938
- Item 38: “Some Eyes Do Not Bother", 1938
- Item 39: “Since There Is Always Poetry", 1938
- Item 40: “Chirp Again", 1939
- Item 41: “Who Grants To Love", 1939
- Item 42: “I Want You With Me Always", 1938
- Item 43: “Time-Waste", 1938
- Item 44: "Verjuice", 1938
- Item 45: "Sung By A Negro Girl", 1938
- Item 46: "He Died Last Evening, Mary", 1938
- Item 47: “Autumn", 1938
- Item 48: “For Armistice Day", 1938
- Item 49: "Life Asks But Time", 1938
- Item 50: “Beth", 1938
- Item 51: “Relaxation", 1938
- Item 52: “Fairies", 1938
- Item 53: “Easter Day", 1938
- Includes later annotation by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Item 54: “Poems – 1938 by Gwendolyn Brooks, 1938
- Item 55: “Here Stands Convention In The Road", 1940
- Item 56: “Saint Valentine’s Day", 1940
- Item 57: “The Partial Physician", 1940
- Item 58: “The Dying Flame", 1940
- Item 59: “The New-Born Babe", 1940
- Item 60: “Winter Singer", 1938
- Item 61: “My Books", 1938
- Item 62: “So Still The Winter Night", 1938
- Item 63: “As You Are Drawn ----", 1938
- Item 64: “Wish I Knew", 1938
- Item 65: “Mr. And Mrs. Bernard Goss", 1938
- Item 66: “For Kenyon Reid (By Request)", 1938
- Item 67: “Not Every Sunday Morning", 1938
- Item 68: “Snow Storm", 1938
- Item 69: “The Winter’s Turning Into Spring", 1938
- Item 70: “Three Talk About War", 1938
- Item 71: “New", 1938
- Item 72: “There Was A Little Negro Girl", 1938
- Item 73: “For Robert J. McGee (Faithful Friend)", 1938
- Item 74: “They Too", 1938
- Item 75: “Frightened Young Soldier, Irritated By His Wife’s Farwell Tears", 1938
- Item 76: “Hale Trees", 1938
- Item 77: “Poet", 1938
- Item 78: “Mrs. Corley And The Colored Maid", 1938
- Item 79: “Possession", 1938
- Item 80: “’Tomorrow I Shall See Him’”, 1938
- Item 81: “High Spirits", 1938
- Item 82: “Love", 1938
- Item 83: “A Song For Negroes", 1938
- Item 84: “Sun-Wrapped Rain", 1938
- Item 85: “Is Love To You What Love’s To Me?", 1938
- Item 86: “When Love All Broken", 1938
- Item 87: “Because I’m Tired Of Fighting", 1938
- Item 88: “Alteration", 1938
- Item 89: “Over And Over", 1938
- Item 90: “Night By The Lake", 1938
- Item 91: “Appreciation", 1938
- Item 92: “What Other Thing Is There To Tell", 1938
- Item 93: “Paradise", 1938
- Item 94: “I do Not Like A Palace", 1938
- Item 95: “Life Is So Beautiful", 1938
- Item 96: “Lord, You Have Given So Much Of Beauty", 1938
- Item 97: “How Sickness Softens And Soothes A Man", 1938
- Item 98: “The Ghost Girl", 1938
- Item 99: “It Is A Disappearing Sun", 1938
- Item 100: “Poems – 1939 By Gwendolyn Brooks", 1939
- Item 101: “Romance Is Not In Old Madrid", 1939
- Item 102: “To A Brown Madwoman", 1939
- Item 103: “Dark Girl", 1939
- Item 104: “I Want To Get Inside Your Mind", 1939
- Item 105: “I Have Not Learned", 1939
- Item 106: “Pick Up The Strap Again (Street Car)", 1939
- Item 107: “Watermelon Man", 1939
- Item 108: “Exhaust The Little Moment", 1939
- Item 109: “To My Heart", 1939
- Item 110: “When H Was Tender-Five", 1939
- Item 111: “Booker Taliaferro Washington", 1939
- Item 112: “Poem – 1940 By Gwendolyn Brooks", 1940
- Item 113: “Peon", 1940
- Item 114: “Perhaps", 1940
- Item 115: “Little Brown Boy", 1938
- Item 116: “There’s Merriment Knocking At My Door", 1938
- Folder 8: “Poems G.B.” from “Flexible” 3-ring notebook, 1938
- Item 1: “My Japanese Friend”, undated
- Item 2: “Old Apartment House (Chicago)”, 1938
- Item 3: “Ripeness”, 1938
- Item 4: "Pride", 1938
- Item 5: “Orison”, 1938
- Item 6: “Old Age Has Beauty All Its Own”, 1938
- Item 7: Scrap of paper with writing, undated
- Item 8: Print of painting, undated
- Item 9: “The New Bob Bale(?)”, 1940, 1942
- Item 10: “Cradle Ballad”, 1941
- Item 11: “Truth”, undated
- Item 12: "the Ghost Girl", 1942
- Folder 9: Tissue from “Flexible” 3-ring notebook, undated
- Folder 10: Poems from back cover of “Flexible” 3-ring notebook, 1939
- Item 1: “Mrs. Corley and the Colored Maid”, undated
- Item 2: “Gray Old Yesterdays”, undated
- Item 3: “To A Brown Madwoman,” “Dark Girl, “ Lion. Robin.,” “Time Does Not Hesitate,” and “The Crazy Woman”, undated
- Item 4: “Prayer,” “Verjuice,” “Autumn,” and “Life Hits and Runs”, undated
- Item 5: “Nothing Matters,” “To A Brown Butcher Boy,” and “I Won’t go By The Cemetery Anymore”, undated
- Item 6: “The Postman Has Passed,” “Some Eyes Do Not Bother,” and “Of Flesh Death-Glorified”, undated
- Item 7: “Dreams” and “Bones”, undated
- Item 8: “Pick Up The Strap Again (Street Car)” and “Old Age Has Beauty All Its Own”, undated
- Item 9: "Truth", undated
- Item 10: “Old Laughter,” “It Is The Very Gold Of Joy,” and “Exhaust The Little Moment”, undated
- Folder 11: 1950 Day Planner (Pulitzer), 1950
- Folder 12: Published Verses (Defender) Notebook, 1934-1937
- Item 1: “One Little Quarrel” and “You Say I am In Love", 1934, 1936
- Item 2: "Never Enough", 1934
- Item 3: "Song", 1934
- Item 4: “A Song of Thanksgiving", 1934
- Item 5: "Destiny", 1934
- Item 6: “Postscript To Suffering", 1934
- Item 7: "Baby Wisdom", 1935
- Item 8: “To The Hinderer", 1934
- Item 9: “Life Is Too Short", 1934
- Item 10: “Knowledge", 1934
- Item 11: “Music Is Not Music", 1934
- Item 12: “Negroid", undated
- Item 13: “Gift” and “After Christmas", 1934
- Item 14: “A Christmas Story", 1934
- Item 15: “Life and Death” and “Rejoice That You Hae What You Have", 1935
- Item 16: “I Loved You Best” and “Wealth", 1934
- Item 17: “A Pin” and “Shadows", 1935
- Item 18: “To My Parents", 1935
- Item 19: “Corner In a Portrait Gallery", 1935
- Item 20: “How Can I keep My Mind Away” and “Sonnet", 1935
- Item 21: “Possession” and “The Bright Star", 1935
- Item 22: “Journey To A Far Realm", 1935
- Item 23: “Words For Mussolini", 1935
- Item 24: “Genius” and “Kismet", 1935
- Item 25: “Sonnets For Beatrice", 1936
- Item 26: “Where Are They Now” by Ima Twin, undated
- Item 27: “Don’t Pass Me By" by G. W. Tyus, 1936
- Item 28: “Letter To Sharlie Norman” by Beatrice Abbott, 1936
- Item 29: “The Power of Music” by Frank S. Ingram and “It’s Never Too Late” by Dan Burley, undated
- Item 30: “A Fool’s Confession” by Arthur Sempey and “O, Live!", 1936
- Item 31: “Through All My Life” and “Dreams” by Short Weight, 1936
- Item 32: “Exaltation” and “Not guilty Says You” by C. Powell DeShong, undated
- Item 33: “Olympic Valor” by Harold E. Grady, 1936
- Item 34: “I’ll Furnish Them The Feet” by William Henry Huff and “Restlessness” by Kathryn Ervin, undated
- Item 35: “At Night” by Lohn Henry Owens and “For Lemuel H. Randolph", 1936
- Item 36: “Our Songs For Friends", 1936
- Item 37: “For Many Different Eyes", 1936
- Item 38: “Light and Shadows” column including “Plaint", undated
- Item 39: “People,” “Hope,” and “Now I Live", 1937
- Item 40: “Poems Printed Beginning August 1934", c. 1934
- Box 256
- Folder 1: 1950 day planner cover and additions, 1950, 1985, 1993
- Folder 2-3: “The Life of Lincoln West” notebook, 1953-1954
- Folder 4-6: Sequel to Maud Martha drafting notebook, 1954, 1975-1976
- Includes newspaper and magazine clippings and correspondence by Gwendolyn Brooks
- Folder 7: “Reviews of Gwendolyn Brooks” notebook, 1959-1965
- Includes newspaper clippings from the Chicago Sun-Times
- Box 257
- Folder 1-5: “Preparation Book. Poems, Notes, and Pieces” notebook, 1963-1985, undated
- Includes newspaper and magazine clippings
- Folder 6-7: “Honorary Degrees (Partial List)” notebook, 1967-1992
- Folder 7: "Honorary Degrees (Partial List)" notebook folder 2 of 2
- Folder 8: February 1969 calendar, 1969
- Folder 9: July 1969 calendar, 1969
- Folder 10: November 1971 calendar, 1971
- Box 258
- Folder 1: October 1972 calendar, 1972
- Includes note “Important: See back”
- Folder 2: May 1973 calendar, 1973
- Includes “Illinois Wesleyan University Graduation Speech”
- Folder 3: “For Mama. Love, from Gwendolyn” pale turquoise notebook, 1975
- Box 259
- Folder 1: January 1968 calendar, 1978
- Folder 2: Silver notebook, 1974-1979
- Folder 3: Diet books, 1978 June 20-November 18
- Folder 4: Diet books, 1978 November 18-1979 March 7
- Folder 5: Diet books, 1979 March 29-June 29
- Folder 6: Diet books, 1979 June 30-September 30
- Folder 7: Diet book, 1979 October 1-24
- Folder 8: Diet books, 1979 October 12-1980 January 22
- Box 260
- Folder 1: Diet books, 1980 January 23-May 22
- Folder 2: Diet books, 1980 May 22-October 1
- Folder 3: Diet books, 1980 October 1-1981 January 3
- Folder 4: Diet books, 1981 January 4-May 23
- Folder 5: “My Daily Journal” notebook, 1980, 1994
- Box 261
- Folder 1: “Diary” green notebook, 1980-1997
- Folder 2: Diet books, 1981 May 24-August 30
- Folder 3: Diet books, 1981 August 31-1982 January 23
- Folder 4: Notepad, circa 1981
- Folder 5: “Russia” blue notebook, 1981
- Given for birthday
- Folder 6: Diet books, 1982 January 24-March 28
- Folder 7: Diet books, 1982 March 28-September 16
- Box 262
- Folder 1: Diet books, 1982 July 5-December 31
- Folder 2: Notepad, circa 1982
- Folder 3: Diet books, 1983 January 1-May 4
- Folder 4: Diet books, 1983 May 7-October 3
- Folder 5: Diet books, 1984 January 13-1985 January 19
- Folder 6: Diet books, 1985 January 19-April 24
- Includes “Maud Martha”
- Folder 7: Diet books, 1985 April 6-September 17
- Box 263
- File 1: “Daily Menus” envelope
- Folder 1.1: Notes, quotations, 1992-1998, undated
- Folder 1.2: Diet books, 1984-1994
- Folder 1.3: Diet books, 1978-1998
- Box 264
- Folder 1: Diet books and “1985 Date Book”, 1985 October 25-1986 January 12
- File 2: “Poems, Essayettes, Notes, Clippings, Ideas, etc.” notebook
- Folder 2.1: “Poems, Essayettes, Notes, Clippings, Ideas, etc.” notebook, undated
- Includes “To Fit In” and “Thinking”
- Folder 2.2: Items from “Poems, Essayettes, Notes, Clippings, Ideas, etc.” notebook, 1991-1995
- Includes “Letter not sent to Sonia Sanchez” and correspondence with high schoolers
- Folder 2.3: Items from “Poems, Essayettes, Notes, Clippings, Ideas, etc.” notebook, 1987-1996, undated
- Includes Maud Martha correspondence
- Folder 3: Diet books, 1986 October 28-1987 April 21
- Folder 4: Yellow flower “Monologue” journal, 1988
- Folder 5: Diet books, 1988 February 8-1989 January 3
- Box 265
- Folder 1: Diet books, 1989 February 17-July 23
- Folder 2: Diet books, 1989 July 23-1990 January 24
- Folder 3: Notepad, 1989
- Includes notes on the death of Anthony Nash
- Folder 4: Diet books, 1990 January 24-December 19
- Includes “Children Coming Home”
- Folder 5: Green notebook with inserts and small notebook, 1990, undated
- Box 266
- Folder 1: Notes, quotations, etc., circa 1990-1992
- Folder 2: Orange and black poetry notebook, 1991-1992
- Folder 3: Diet books, 1978, 1991 January 14-December 30
- Includes other notes and note from Henry
- Folder 4: Lake Forest Academy notebook and enclosures, 1991-1999
- Box 267
- Folder 1: Diet books, July 1992 calendar, quotations, notes, 1992-1996
- File 2: Norelco box
- Folder 2.1: Diet books, 1992 January 7-December 17
- Includes citation form and “RAP”
- Folder 2.2: Diet book with inserts, 1992-1993
- Folder 2.3: Diet books, 1993 March 30-December 4
- Folder 2.4: Diet books, 1994 April 1-August 14
- Box 268
- Item 1: Norelco box, undated
- Box 269
- Folder 1: Tree notebook with items laid in front cover, 1980, 1993
- Folder 2: “Poems-in-Process (And Notes)” notebook, pink memo book, and “Miscellaneous” notebook with inserts, 1994
- Folder 3: Diet book, 1993 December 12-1994 April 5
- Folder 4: Diet books with inserts, newspaper, clippings, and notepad, 1981-1982; 1994 January 8-1995 February 3
- Folder 5: Diet books and notepad, 1994 May 9-1995 January 24
- Includes notes on Thomas Jefferson
- Folder 6: Inserts from “Hi, World!” notebook, 1994
- Box 270
- Folder 1: Diet books, 1995 January 24-August 21
- Folder 2: Diet books and Purdue University 1995 calendar with insert, 1995, 1995 August 24-December 25
- Folder 3: Diet book from 1995 with inserts from 1999 diet, 1995 May 17-July 12, 1999
- Folder 4: Diet books, 1996 January 1-October 21
- Box 271
- Folder 1: Diet books with inserts and notebook, 1996 November 4-1997 April 1
- Includes notes on Lerone Bennett and clothing receipt
- Folder 2: Diet book with inserts, 1994-1998, 1998 October 1-December 31
- Includes information about Fall 1997 African American Literature course taught by Dr. N. M. Yakoubou, Chicago State University
- Box 272
- Folder 1: Diet books, 1977 January 19-March 20
- Folder 2: Notepads and books with inserts, 1997-2000
- Folder 3: Notepad with inserts, circa 1997
- Includes “Behind the Scenes”, self-interview, writings by Haki Madhubuti, and newspaper clippings
- Folder 4: Diet book with inserts, circa 1997, 1997 May 2-August 10
- Includes “To Nora” letter
- Folder 5: Notepad, 1997-1998
- Includes “To IRS” and “To Beryl” letters
- Folder 6: Diet book with insert, 1997 August 11-September 27
- Includes newspaper clipping, “Inflammation May Cause Heart Attacks” by Doug Levy, USA Today
- Folder 7: Address books with inserts, 1997-1998
- Includes card from Susan Vermini
- Folder 8: Notepad and loose-leaf notes, 1997-1998
- Box 273
- Folder 1: “Daily Menus 1999” notebook with inserts, 1997-1999
- Includes notes on Jasper, TX, lynching
- Folder 2: Diet book with inserts, 1999 September 12-April 9
- Includes Chocolate Chips Theatre Company program and annotated “The Text of Zora Neale Hurston: A Caution” by Crosland, Andrew
- Folder 3: Address book with inserts, 1997-2000
- Includes Gwendolyn Brooks Center and letter from Jean Hendricks
- Box 274
- Folder 1: Diet book and notepad with inserts, 1998 February 21-June 4
- Box 275
- Folder 1: Diet books with inserts, 1998
- Folder 2: Diet book, 1998 June 8-September 11
- Includes list of additions to “Collected Poems”
- Folder 3: Two notepads, 1998
- Folder 4: Diet book with insert, 1998, 1999 September 3-November 5
- Folder 5: Address book with inserts, 1998-1999
- Includes correspondence from Pat Bell
- Folder 6: Notepad with inserts, 1998-2000
- Includes “Of Haki Madhubuti”
- Box 276
- Folder 1: Notebook with inserts, 1998-2000
- Includes contract for 1998 The Contemporary Forum event
- Folder 2: Diet books and two notepads with inserts, 1999-2000, 1999 April 17-June 24
- Folder 3: Diet book with inserts, 1999 June 30-August 22
- Folder 4: Diet book with inserts, 1999 November 6-December 23
- Includes edited poetry
- Box 277
- Folder 1: Diet books with insert, 2000 December 26-October 13
- Includes letter to Nora Blakely about Henry Blakely III for publication in “Notes Before Nighttime”
- Folder 2: Diet books with inserts, 2000 September 10-November 18
- Includes Ranger workshop notes for Bradford
- Box 278
- Folder 1: Diet books with inserts, 2000 February 7-March 30
- Folder 2: “The Campaign for the Latin School of Chicago” diet book, 2000 April 13-July 27
- Folder 3: Notepad, 1996, 2000
- Includes 1996 October 7 Newsweek issue
- Folder 4: Notepad and spiral book, undated
- Folder 5: Notebook, 1997
- Includes notes on Chuck Berry
- Folder 6: Notepads, 1998, undated
- Includes notes on African language and cultures, diet, and leopard in grass
- Folder 7: Notepads with inserts, 1997, undated
- Includes recipes, poetry, prose, flyer for 28th Annual Illinois Poet Laureate Awards, and poem on Nora
- Box 279
- Folder 1: Notepads with inserts, undated
- Includes contact information, food lists, and page from magazine
- Folder 2: “Notes on my next book of poems: Children Coming Home and Other Poems, Third World Press” diet book with inserts, 2000 July 30-September 7
- Folder 3: Address book and binder, undated
- Includes notes on seminar “Twentieth-Century Influences”
- Folder 4: Four spiral-bound notebooks, undated
- Includes poetry, notes on drama, and book of quotations
- Box 280
- Folder 1: Notebook and notepads, undated
- Folder 2: “Old” black notebook, undated
- Folder 3: Notepad and binder, undated
- Includes notes on Africa
- Folder 4: Address books, undated
- Folder 5: Blank notepads, undated
- Box 281
- Folder 1: Blank notebooks, 1979, undated
- Folder 2: Blank notebooks and notepads, undated
- Folder 3: Blank notebook with inscription, 1992
- Folder 4: Blank notebook and notepads, undated
- Folder 5: Blank notebooks, undated
- Folder 6: Blank notebooks and notepads, undated
- Box 282
- Folder 1: Blank notepads, undated
- Folder 2: Blank notepads and paper, undated
- Sub-series 7: Stationery
- Box 283
- Folder 1: Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, D.C.). Israeli Lounge greeting card, 1973
- Folder 2: Christmas card, undated
- Shows two children spying on Santa Claus delivering gifts.
- Folder 3: Sympathy card, undated
- Includes an envelope.
- Folder 4: Chicago landmarks greeting cards, undated
- Includes paper and plastic envelopes.
- Folder 5: Box of Caspari “Christmas and Holiday Cards”, undated
- Includes an envelope.
- Folder 6: Chicago State University. Gwendolyn Brooks Center notepad, undated
- Folder 7: Paper with Vassar Collage Alumnae House letterhead, undated
- Includes an envelope.
- Folder 8: Springfield Hilton envelopes, undated
- Includes a blank sheet of white paper.
- Folder 9: Blank sheets of white paper, undated
- Folder 10: Blank sheets of white paper, undated
- Includes a sheet of paper embossed with floral trim.
- Folder 11: Blank fragments of white paper, undated
- Folder 12: Mixed envelopes in a cardboard box, undated
- Folder 13: Postcards grouping
- Item 1: Broadmoor Hotel (Colorado Springs, CO). Main building, undated
- Item 2: Broadmoor West (Colorado Springs, CO), undated
- Item 3: Broadmoor Hotel (Colorado Springs, CO). Aerial view, undated
- Item 4: Broadmoor Hotel (Colorado Springs, CO). Aerial view from East golf course, undated
- Item 5: Amtrak. California Zephyr train in Colorado, undated
- Item 6: Northern Illinois University. Holmes Student Center, undated
- Item 7: Northern Illinois University. Caulder statue, undated
- Item 8: Gwendolyn Brooks (photo by Krementz, Jill), 1993
- Folder 14: Postcards grouping
- Item 1: St. Paul skyline, undated
- Item 2: Old Federal Courts Building (St. Paul), undated
- Item 3: Minnesota State Capitol. Senate Chamber, undated
- Folder 15: Postcards grouping
- Item 1: Hilton Inn (Durham, NC), undated
- Obstructed view from parking lot.
- Item 2: Hilton Inn (Durham, NC), undated
- Item 3: The Vernon Manor Hotel (Cincinnati, OH), undated
- Item 4: Holiday Inn (Ledgewood, NJ), undated
- Item 5: The Exeter Inn (Exeter, NH), undated
- Folder 16: Postcards grouping
- Item 1: Winnie Mandela, undated
- Item 2: Montana Sunset, undated
- Item 3: The Homesteaders (artwork by Clymer, John), 1981
- Item 4: Emperor’s Choice Herb Tea (artwork by Giusti, Bob), 1981
- Folder 17: Mixed grouping
- Item 1: Les Merveilles de Chartres greeting card, 1994
- Item 2: Van Wickle Gates postcard, undated
- Item 3: Card fragment depicting a cartoon snake with the text, “Relax!”, undated
- Box 284
- Folder 1: Mixed grouping
- Item 1: Amtrak Cresent notepad, undated
- Item 2: Season’s Greetings card, undated
- Includes an envelope and a “Sample (1997) to keep” sticky note.
- Item 3: Harbour Castle Westin postcards, undated
- Includes Canadian postage stamps.
- Item 4: Sheraton at Universal City paper, undated
- Item 5: Blank fragment of white paper, undated
- Item 6: Notepad cover with jottings on Breyer’s Ice Cream and Phyllis Theroux, undated
- Item 7: Green sticky note, undated
- Item 8: Yellow sticky notes, undated
- Includes a draft introduction for Kendrick, Dolores.
- Folder 2: Mixed grouping
- Item 1: Sympathy greeting card, undated
- Includes an envelope.
- Item 2: Season’s Greetings cards (various), undated
- Includes envelopes.
- Item 3: Chicago landmarks greeting cards (various), undated
- Includes envelopes.
- Item 4: Village Festival greeting card (artwork by Alphonse, Inatace), undated
- Item 5: The Ninety-Fifth restaurant (Chicago) postcard, undated
- Item 6: Nairobi African Fauna postcard, undated
- Item 7: “Woman” greeting card, undated
- Shows a woman with her hair tied back by an African scarf.
- Item 8: Pink floral arrangement greeting card (partial), undated
- Item 9: Season’s Greetings cards (various)
- Folder 3: Paper with Gwendolyn Brooks Blakely letterhead, undated
- Includes blank sheets of white paper.
- Folder 4: Personal stationery grouping
- Item 1: Paper with Gwendolyn Brooks Blakely letterhead, undated
- Item 2: “DVHS NEH GB 1993” notepad, 1993
- Item 3: Envelope with The David Company letterhead, undated
- Item 4: Blue cards, undated
- Includes an envelope.
- Item 5: White envelopes, undated
- Item 6: Gray cards with an address for Gwendolyn Brooks, undated
- Item 7: Paper with The Exeter Inn letterhead, undated
- Item 8: Notepad with The Ritz-Carlton letterhead, undated
- Sub-series 8: Published Works and Book Jackets
- Box 285
- Folder 1: “An Aspect of Love”, 1982
- Words by Gwendolyn Brooks and music by D. Wayne Johnson.
- Folder 2: “Andre”, undated
- Folder 3: “Ann Smith” (poem on brochure), 1996
- Folder 4: “Art Can Survive”, 1995
- Folder 5: “The Assassination of John F. Kennedy,” published in the Chicago Sun-Times, 1963
- Folder 6: “Aurora”, 1972
- Folder 7: “Behind the Scenes,” in American Poet, 1999-2000
- Folder 8: “Black Love”, 1982
- Folder 9: “Books Feed and Cure and Chortle and Collide,” printed on bookmarks, undated
- Folder 10: “Brelve. A Battered Woman”, 1991
- Folder 11: “Chicago State University”, undated
- Folder 12: “Elegy (Plain Black Boy)”, 1962
- Words by Gwendolyn Brooks and music by Oscar Brown Jr.
- Folder 12a: American Childhood, 1930
- Includes “Evening” (also published as “Eventide”).
- Folder 13: “For Illinois 1968: A Sesquicentennial Poem by Gwendolyn Brooks”, 1968
- Folder 14: “A Hymn to Chicago” in New City, 1962
- Includes a newspaper clipping.
- Folder 15: “In Honor of David Anderson Brooks, My Father”, 1999
- Folder 16: “Instructions to Myself”, 1989
- Folder 17: “Jane Addams”, 1989
- Folder 18: “Lady Dolores,” in The Exeter Bulletin, 1999
- Folder 19: “Last Inauguration of Mayor Harold Washington,” in the Chicago Tribune
- Folder 20: “Martin Luther King Jr.”, undated
- Includes “Booker T. and W.E.B.” by Dudley Randall.
- Folder 21: “Martin Luther King, Jr.,” in Ave Maria National Catholic Weekly, 1969
- Folder 22: “Michael, Young Russia”, 1982
- Folder 23: “The Mother,” in Mother’s Underground Magazine, 1993
- Folder 24: “The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems” (Chicago: The David Company), 1987
- Folder 24a: “On Harold Washington”, 1988
- Folder 25: “People Protest in Sprawling Lightless Ways,” in Poems, 1945: Prize-Winning Poems of the Midwestern Writers’ Conference at Northwestern University, 1945
- Folder 26: “Power,” in Briefings, 1989-1990
- Folder 27: “The Progress” (four copies), 1982
- Folder 28: “Rising Star” (eight copies), 1994
- Folder 29: “Riot” (Detroit: Broadside Press), 1970
- Frontispiece by Jeff Donaldson.
- Folder 30: “The Second Sermon on the Warpland”, 1978
- Folder 31: “To Be Grown Up”, undated
- Box 286
- Folder 1: “To Be In Love”, undated
- Folder 2: “Tommy,” photocopied from Bronzeville Boys and Girls, undated
- Folder 3: “To Prisoners,” in Illinois Issues (three copies), 1981
- Folder 4: “To the South Side Community Art Center with Affectionate Gratitude”, undated
- Folder 5: “To Young Readers” (tied with blue ribbon), undated
- Folder 6: “To Young Readers,” yellow bookmarks from the Chicago Public Library, undated
- Folder 7: “To Young Readers,” blue and yellow bookmarks from the Chicago Public Library, 1979
- Two copies are signed by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Folder 8: “Very Young Poets” (photocopy), 1983
- Folder 9: “Vern,” in American Voices in Celebration of Black History Month, 1998
- Folder 10: “The Wall” broadside, 1967
- Folder 11: “We Real Cool” broadside designed by Cledie Taylor, 1966
- Folder 12: “We Real Cool” from Voices: An Anthology of Poems and Pictures (photocopies), 1969
- Folder 13: “Winnie,” in Poetry Magazine
- Folder 14: “Winnie” photocopies (Chicago: Third World Press), 1988
- Folder 15: “Ancient Letters to Margaret” (grouping of photocopies), 1938, 1982
- Folder 16: “First Editions Given to My Mother”, 1971, 1988
- Includes Very Young Poets (Chicago: The David Company, 1988) and The World of Gwendolyn Brooks (New York: Harper & Row, 1971).
- Box 287
- Folder 1: Brooks Library-“Pages Missing from These Books”, 1963, 1981, 1983
- Includes Selected Poems (1963), To Disembark (1981), Primer for Blacks (1981), and Beckonings (1983).
- Folder 2: Five Poems in Harper’s Magazine, 1945
- Includes “The Preacher Ruminates Behind the Sermon,” “Southeast Corner,” “The White Troops Had Their Orders But the Negroes Looked Like Men,” “My Dreams, My Works, Must Wait Till After Hell,” and “Love Note: Surely.”
- Folder 3: Poems in The Black Scholar, June 1975
- Includes “The Boy Died In My Alley” and “To A Proper Black Man.”
- Folder 4: Poems in Living, Learning and Literature: Classic and Contemporary Works, 1994
- Includes “The Bean Eaters.”
- Folder 5: Poems in Every Shut Eye Ain’t Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company), 1994
- Includes inserted manuscript notes.
- Folder 6: Poems in Laurels: Eight Women Poets
- Includes “In the Mecca.”
- Folder 7: “Errata” (photocopies from American Poet), 1999-2000
- Includes “Gang Girls,” “The Lovers of the Poor,” “I Am A Black,” “The Coora Flower,” and “We Real Cool,” as well as a report to acknowledge Gwendolyn Brooks’ receipt of the Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement.
- Folder 8: Multiple Poems, undated
- Includes “Sadie and Maud,” “The Womanhood,” “To Be In Love,” “The Mother,” “A Song in the Front Yard,” and “The Rites for Cousin Vit.”
- Folder 9: Poems in A Broadside Treasury from “Dudley Randall to G.B.” bag, 1971
- Includes “The Life of Lincoln West,” “Young Africans,” and “Paul Robeson.” Inscribed by “Dudley” for “Gwendolyn” on 2/14/84.
- Folder 10: Copy of The Black Poets (ed. Dudley Randall) from “Dudley Randall to G.B.” bag, 1971
- Inscribed by “Dudley” for “Gwendolyn” on November 14, 1971.
- Folder 11: “Broadside Press Broadside Series” brown folder, 1965-1967
- Includes broadsides for “We Real Cool” and “The Wall,” “The Sea-Turtle and the Shark” by M.B. Tolson, and an event at Drum and Spear (Washington, D.C.) and Howard University.
- Box 288
- Folder 1: Beckonings (Broadside Press), 1975
- Folder 2: Blacks (copy of corrections), 1991
- Folder 3: The Black Position, no.1 (Gwendolyn Brooks, ed.), 1971
- Folder 4: The Black Position, no.3 (Gwendolyn Brooks, ed.), 1973
- Folder 5: “Black Steel” broadside, 1971
- Folder 6: A Capsule Course in Black Poetry Writing with inserts, 1981
- Folder 7: Book reviews in Chicago Sun-Times, 1963
- Folder 8: “Chicago 2999”, undated
- Folder 9: Children Coming Home (The David Company)
- Folder 10: “Christmas Morning Comes Too Soon”, 1986
- Folder 11: “The Circle Association’s Gwendolyn Brooks Page”, 1998
- Folder 12: “The Darker Brother” book review, undated
- Folder 13: 45 rpm “Elegy” Columbia record, “When Malindy Sings” by Oscar Brown Jr., undated
- Folder 14: Gottschalk and the Grande Tarantelle and Children Coming Home, 1995
- Folder 15: Gwendolyn Brooks, 1990s
- Folder 16: Gwendolyn Brooks introduction and recommended readings, undated
- Box 289
- Folder 1: “Of Harold Washington,” in Chicago, 1988
- Folder 2: “Henry Dumas: Perceptiveness and Zeal”, 1988
- Folder 3: “How to Write a Poem”, 1993
- Folder 4: “Hugh Chisholm’s ‘Cantata’ Exhibits Beauty and Power”, undated
- Folder 5: “It Is Your Business to Be Bothered,” in The Chicago Guide, June 1973
- Folder 6: “Langston Hughes,” in The Nation, July 1967
- Folder 7: “Luther,” in Tan, 1952
- Folder 8: “Home,” from Maud Martha, 1998
- Folder 9: Mayor Harold Washington and Chicago, the I Will City (Brooks Press), 1983
- Folder 10: “Mothers and Daughters,” in Land’s End
- Folder 11: “Mothers and Daughters”, undated
- Folder 12: Primer for Blacks (Black Position Press), 1980
- Folder 13: “Poets Who Are Negroes,” in Phylon: The Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture, 1950
- Folder 14: Multiple poems and Report from Part One excerpt, undated, 1973
- Folder 15: “Poetry Is Siren”, 1996
- Folder 16: Excerpts from Report from Part One (published in Black World) and Report from Part Two, 1972, undated
- Folder 17: Report from Part One (first unbound copy), 1972
- Folder 18: Report from Part Two, 1996
- Includes inserted manuscript notes.
- Folder 19: Selected Poems (cover and introduction pages, photocopies), 1997
- Box 290
- Folder 1: Selected Poems (copy for corrections), undated
- Folder 2: Selected Poems with inscriptions, 1963
- Folder 3: The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves, illustrated by Timothy Jones (two copies), 1974
- Copy two marked “defective.”
- Folder 4: Acknowledgement page for To Disembark(?), undated
- Folder 5: “We Real Cool” in corrections for The Columbia Book of Poetry, circa 1992
- Folder 6: The World of Gwendolyn Brooks (Harper & Row), 1971
- Folder 7: Young Poet’s Primer (Brooks Press), 1981
- Folder 8: Unknown manuscripts, undated
- Folder 9: Order form for Broadside Press (Detroit, MI) featuring cover art and description for Aloneness, 1971
- Folder 10: Book jacket for Maud Martha, undated
- Folder 11: Book jacket for In the Mecca, undated
- Folder 12: “Uncorrected Proof” slip for In the Mecca, undated
- Folder 13: A Street in Bronzeville, undated
- Folder 14: Book jacket for To Disembark, undated
- Folder 15: To Gwen with Love: An Anthology Dedicated to Gwendolyn Brooks (Johnson Publishing Company), undated
- Sub-series 9: Advertisements and Bibliographies, Contracts, and Copyright Documents
- Box 291
- Folder 1: University of Chicago press release for the Tenth Anniversary Poet Laureate Awards Contest, 1979
- Folder 2: Maud Martha advertisement with notes, 1967
- Folder 3: Selected Poems uncorrected proof, circa 1963
- Folder 4: “Voices from the Ghetto” broadside, undated
- Includes an advertisement by Nora Brooks Blakely.
- Folder 5: “About the Author” and “On Getting a Natural” broadsides, undated
- Folder 6: Broadsides and press releases featuring Beckonings and Children Coming Home and an Illinois Literary Publishers Association (ILPA) catalog, 1975, 1989, 1991, undated
- Folder 7-8: “New Paperbacks from Gwendolyn Brooks”, 1992, undated
- Folder 8 includes a bookmark featuring “Book Power.”
- Folder 9: Central Arkansas Library System handouts, undated
- Folder 10: “Gwendolyn Brooks. Poet Laureate of Illinois: A Selected Bibliography” (Harold Washington Library Center. Literature & Language Division), 1987
- Folder 11: Third World Press advertisements, 1986
- Includes a list of holdings at the Florida State University Library authored by Gwendolyn Brooks and a “Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks” bookmark for Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
- Folder 12: Third World Press catalogs and “Books for the Young”, 1992, 1996, undated
- Folder 13: Copyright and contract papers, 1965, 1968, 1983
- Folder 14: Form TX (blank or partially completed) and “The Nuts and Bolts of Copyright” (United States Copyright Office), undated
- Folder 15-16: “Contracts + Broadside Royalty Renunciation", 1975-1977
- Sub-series 10: Gwendolyn Brooks Writings Files
- Box 292
- Folder 1: “A Livin’ Man” by Kenny Clarke lyrics from “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", undated
- File 2: Black Glossy Folder
- Folder 2.1: Poems
- Item 1: “Aurora", 1972
- Item 2: “Gang Girls", undated
- Folder 2.2: Poems
- Item 1: “SOS", undated
- Item 2: “Rap", undated
- Folder 2.3: Annotated magazine pages, 1997
- Folder 2.4: “in Just” by E. E. Cummings, undated
- Folder 2.5: “Behind the Scenes", undated
- Folder 2.6: “The Preacher” notes, undated
- Folder 2.7: Correspondence from West, Donda C., 1997
- Folder 2.8: Financial notes, 1997
- Folder 2.9: Public engagements, 1997, undated
- Item 1: Caxtonian Issue, 1997
- Includes article “Prize-Winning Poet Envisions Chicago in 2999 as ‘Senior Adventure.’”
- Item 2: “Classic Black Literature from Gwendolyn Brooks” pamphlet by Third World Press, undated
- Folder 2.10: “Black English Vernacular: The Ebonics Debate", 1997
- Folder 2.11: D-Knowledge album photocopies, undated
- Folder 2.12: “Important Copyright Information”, undated
- Folder 2.13: Notes and work of others relating to poetry, undated
- Folder 2.14: “Twenty-Eighth Annual Illinois Poet Laureate Awards", 1997
- Folder 2.15: “African American” by Rabi Bouzou-Waziri, undated
- Includes annotations by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Folder 2.16: Annotation selections from “The Poem in Motion", undated
- Folder 2.17: Notes and works of others
- Item 1: Notes regarding poem titles, undated
- Item 2: “My City” by Ebony Tillman, undated
- Folder 2.18: “Heartland” newspaper clipping, 1996
- Folder 2.19: Correspondence from The Contemporary Forum, undated
- Folder 2.20: “The Writing of Poetry (ENG 293)", circa 1997
- Folder 2.21: Annotated writing primer “Questions And Answers", 1980
- Folder 2.22: Anonymous review of Alain Robbe-Grillet, undated
- Folder 2.23: Handwritten notes, undated
- Folder 2.24: “An Evening With Gwendolyn Brooks", 1990
- Folder 2.25: Handwritten notes, 1997
- Folder 2.26: “Life Is For Us And Is Stunning!” event flyer, 1996
- Folder 2.27: Patterned folder, undated
- Folder 2.28: Black folder, undated
- Folder 3: Correspondence and writings
- Item 1: “Building” notes, 1985
- Item 2: Correspondence from Jackson, C. E. to Wells, N., 1963
- Item 3: “Building” envelope, undated
- File 4: “For Poetry, In here: Some original mss”
- Folder 4.1: Poetry drafts
- Item 1: “A Modern Ballad", undated
- Item 2: My Religion is Kindness” and “In Emanuel’s Nightmare", undated
- Item 3: “Chapter 3, Ecclesiastes", undated
- Item 4: “To A Proper Black Man", undated
- Item 5: “Aurora", undated
- Folder 4.2: Poetry drafts
- Item 1: “Blackness", undated
- Item 2: “Love Poem", undated
- Item 3: "Out There", 1982
- Item 4: "That Earth", undated
- Item 5: “Comes this little thang…”, 1986
- Item 6: Because our lives sing ballads, undated
- Item 7: "All flat plateau", undated
- Folder 4.3: Poetry drafts
- Item 1: “In the middle of winter…”
- Item 2: “Think of plants…”, 1980
- Item 3: “And poets…”, undated
- Item 4: “Every day the little new people come", undated
- Item 5: “Direct the choir of makers", undated
- Folder 4.4: Poetry drafts
- Item 1: “Oh, so…(?)”, undated
- Item 2: “Telephone Conversations", 1980
- Item 3: “Aids to", 1983
- Item 4: “God----”, undated
- Item 5: “Of The Young Dead", 1985
- Item 6: “Shorthand Possible", undated
- On the back of a Kuumba “Book Party Sunday” invite.
- Folder 4.5: Poetry drafts
- Item 1: “Whitney Young", 1981
- Folder 2: “Of The Young Dead", undated
- Folder 4.6: Poetry drafts
- Item 1: “Patrick Bouie", 1986
- Item 2: “I am against NEGATIVE charge, undated
- Item 3: “Black Steel", 1971
- Item 4: “Overweight!", undated
- Item 5: “Such as love life respond to charge", undated
- Folder 4.7: Poetry drafts
- Item 1: “The Life of Lincoln West", undated
- Item 2: “Martin Luther King” notes, undated
- Folder 4.8: Poetry drafts
- Item 1: Notes, undated
- Item 2: “The Changing World In The 10-Year Period Ahead!”, undated
- Item 3: “The Life of Lincoln West", undated
- Folder 4.9: Poetry drafts
- Item 1: “There is more to a life than its birth and a death", undated
- Item 2: “There are spoiled in America", undated
- Folder 4.10: Poetry drafts
- Item 1: “Enabler", undated
- Item 2: “A Picture – Running Bay", undated
- Folder 4.11-4.12: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 4.13: “The World of Gwendolyn Brooks” cover, undated
- Folder 4.14: Time Magazine, 1977
- Folder 4.15: “A Bitter and Insistent Plague” magazine clipping, undated
- Folder 4.16: “Black Is – Negro Is” by Walter Hayes, undated
- Folder 4.17: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 4.18: Notes and jottings, 1998
- Folder 4.19: “A Farmer", 1988
- Folder 4.20: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 4.21: “Important Original Poetry” envelope, undated
- Folder 4.22: Envelope, undated
- File 5: “If The Heart Is Young”
- Folder 5.1: Composition notebook, 1935
- Folder 5.2: Prose drafts
- Item 1: “Arabella", 1934
- Item 2: “The Orchid And The Daisy", 1934
- Item 3: “Light in Darkness", 1934
- Item 4: “The Silver Pendant", 1934
- Item 5: “Love is Blind", 1934
- Folder 5.3: Prose drafts
- Item 1: “Cigarette", 1934
- Item 2: “1934’s Greatest Vacation Combination… Chicago And A Century Of Progress", circa 1934
- Folder 5.4: Prose drafts
- Item 1: “The Prospective..”, undated
- Item 2: “She’ll Not Be Missed", undated
- Item 3: “Letter To A Civil War Widow", undated
- Folder 5.5: Prose drafts, circa 1934
- Box 293
- Folder 1: Poetry Drafts
- Item 1: “Blackness: Chicago", undated
- Item 2: “Other Music", 1976
- File 2: “Important”
- Folder 2.1: Correspondence
- Item 1: Correspondence to Alexandroff, Michael, undated
- Item 2: Correspondence regarding Clifton, Lucille, undated
- Folder 2.2: Prose drafts
- Item 1: “James Baldwin", undated
- Item 2: “Robert Ridley", undated
- Folder 2.3: “Thinking of Elizabeth Steinberg On Friday, November 13, 1987", 1987
- Folder 2.4: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 2.5: “Important” Folder (folder 5 of 6), advertisements and publicity, 1978, undated
- Folder 2.6: Newspaper and magazine clippings, 1971, 1979, 1987, undated
- File 3: “Important Notes”
- Folder 3.1: “State Street", undated
- Folder 3.2: “Hoke Norris", undated
- Folder 3.3: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 3.4: Newspapers and magazines
- Item 1: “Gwendolyn Brooks On Being black, shy, a success…,”, 1976
- Item has been moved to Box 21 Oversized.
- Item 2: “Important Notes” envelope, undated
- Folder 4: “Interviewers and Interviewing", undated
- Folder 5: “Judith” and other poems
- Item 1: “Judith", undated
- Item 2: "Hallowe’en", undated
- Includes annotation by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Folder 6: “Kinko’s Only,” prose drafts
- Item 1: Note to Brenda, undated
- Item 2: “I’m Here” handwritten, undated
- Item 3: “I’m Here” typed manuscript, undated
- Two copies.
- Item 4: “The Day Of The Gwendolyn", 1986
- Item 5: “Kinko’s Only” envelope
- File 7: “Lincoln Academy”
- Folder 7.1: Correspondence and poems
- Item 1: Correspondence to Billington, James H. (Library of Congress), 1989
- Item 2: “Conducting", undated
- Item 3: “To Fit In", undated
- Item 4: “We", 1987
- Folder 7.2: Speech drafts and poems
- Item 1: Speech draft, undated
- Item 2: Speech draft with “When handed a lemon, make lemonade” rhyme, undated
- Item 3: Speech draft, undated
- Item 4: “Familyhood", 1989
- Item 5: Speech draft notes, undated
- Folder 7.3: Notes and envelopes
- Item 1: Notes and jottings regarding speech, undated
- Item 2: “Lincoln Academy” envelope, undated
- File 8: Manila Envelope
- Folder 8.1: “To Disembark”
- Item 1: Notebook with “To Disembark", undated
- Item 2: Looseleaf notes on “To Disembark", undated
- Folder 8.2-8.6: Prose drafts, circa 1930s
- Folder 8.5 includes published copy of “An Old Appartment House,” undated.
- Folder 9: “May 1994,” jottings and notes, undated
- File 10: “More Notes + Original Pieces”
- Folder 10.1: Correspondence to Dobbin, Mrs., undated
- Folder 10.2: Poetry drafts
- Item 1: “It is our business to be bothered", 1989
- Item 2: “Brelve. A Battered Woman", 1990
- Item 3: “Collage", 1987
- Item 4: “To Readers", 1983
- Folder 10.3: Poetry drafts
- Item 1: “Jane Addams", 1989
- Item 2: “Early Death", undated
- Folder 10.4: Poetry drafts
- Item 1: “To the Illinois Arts Council", 1985
- Item 2: “On the Occasion of the Sarcastic Announcement Of A Clean Young Man…”, 1993
- Folder 10.5: Prose drafts
- Item 1: "First Humanitarianism", undated
- Item 2: “To Fit In", undated
- Item 3: “No matter what!”, undated
- Folder 10.6: Prose drafts, undated, undated
- Folder 10.7: “One of the Indelibles”, undated
- Folder 10.8: Materials relating to Madhubuti, Haki (Don L. Lee) “Haki Madhubuti – Sonai Sanchez", undated
- Folder 10.9: Materials relating to Madhubuti, Haki (Don L. Lee), undated
- Folder 10.10: Notes and jottings, undated
- File 11: “Nora’s Fina Perfected Copy of Children Coming Home”
- Folder 11.1: Poetry Drafts, undated
- Folder 11.2: Envelope, undated
- Folder 12: Notes and fragments, 1985, undated
- Folder 13: Notes on Chicago State University and Madhubuti, Haki (Don L. Lee), 1998-1999, undated
- File 14: “Old”
- Folder 14.1: Poetry Drafts
- Item 1: “Original Manuscripts” envelope, undated
- Item 2: “Nora, 1989
- Item 3: “If anything is translatable….”, undated
- Item 4: “Building", undated
- Item 5: “To A Black Giant who Said ‘Suicide Would Be A Way Out’”, 1976?
- Item 6: “Now for the rigid recountings", undated
- Item 7: “Music For Martyrs", undated
- Item 8: “A Little Girls Poem On 1983", 1983
- Item 9: “Old", undated
- Item 10: “Old", undated
- Item 11: “Song for Hughes", undated
- Folder 14.2: Notepad, undated
- Includes “Old” and “For Nora.”
- Folder 14.3: Interviews
- Item 1: Speech, Third World Press Anniversary, 1977
- Item 2: “Old” envelope, undated
- File 15: “Original Manuscript (typed + written) "Report from Part Two”
- Folder 15.1: Correspondence regarding 1994 Jefferson Lecture for the National Endowment of the Humanities, 1993
- Includes correspondence from Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Folder 15.2: Prose drafts
- Item 1: “Family Pictures", undated
- Item 2: “The questioner is impatient", undated
- Item 3: "Our People", undated
- Item 4: "On Being An American", undated
- Folder 15.3: “Family Pictures", undated
- Folder 15.4: Prose drafts
- Item 1: “Part Two Manuscript", undated
- Item 2: “Familyhood", 1989
- Folder 15.5: Prose drafts
- Item 1: “Report From Part Two", undated
- Item 2: “Warning to Children” by Robert Graves, undated
- Folder 15.6: Prose Drafts
- Item 1: “The newsman Paul Harvey…”, undated
- Item 2: “What is a poet…", undated
- Item 3: “There are wonderful white people…”, undated
- Item 4: “Recovery? Repair? Revival?”, undated
- Item 5: “I wish my people had not been ripped from Afrika…”, undated
- Item 6: “Conservatism", undated
- Item 7: “Notes for a future essay on Bad ‘Black’ Poetry", undated
- Item 8: “Dolores Cross…”, undated
- Item 9: “All these sly + slimy politicos use avoidance verbiage", undated
- Item 10: “Henry Taylor, Haki of Chicago, Ishamel Reed, Joyce Joyce, Clara Claiborne Park", undated
- Item 11: Then there’s lil Ms. Entrepreneur", 1994
- Item 12: “The Poet Norman Jordan", undated
- Item 13: “Guest List", undated
- Item 14: “Comes the cry…", undated
- Item 15: “Little speeches…”, undated
- Item 16: “The Challenges of Freedom", undated
- Item 17: Quote from “Riders to the Bloodred wrath", undated
- Item 18: “These are the days", 1973
- Item 19: “Blacks in general have long memories", undated
- Item 20: “Nobody…”
- Item 21: “The Poet Norman Jordan", undated
- Item 22: “One of our Black Spokesmen listened…”
- Item 23: “Boys boys", undated
- Folder 15.7: Newspapers and magazine articles related to other subjects, 1991, 1994, undated
- Folder 15.8: Works
- Item 1: “Family Pictures” book, 1971
- Framed Art 2: Folder, undated
- Box 294
- File 1: “Notes”
- Folder 1.1: Correspondence
- Item 1: Prettyman, John, undated
- Includes only correspondence by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Item 2: Sinkler, Ms., 1991
- Includes only correspondence by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Folder 1.2: Poetry drafts
- Item 1: “I am Charles Stewart", undated
- Item 2: “In Indianapolis, Indiana", undated
- Item 3: "But you’ve still got God", 1991
- Item 4: “Best Friends", 1991
- Item 5: “Since There Is Always Poetry", undated
- Item 6: “Easter Day", undated
- Folder 1.3: Prose drafts
- Item 1: “Carl Morse", undated
- Item 2: “Most big strong men…”, 1990
- Item 3: “Diversity", undated
- Item 4: “In Memory of Roger Smith", 1979
- Folder 1.4: Prose drafts
- Item 1: “Must be", undated
- Item 2: “Dr. psychiatrist?”, undated
- Item 3: “My daughter dancing", undated
- Item 4: “I have been interested…”, undated
- Folder 1.5: Prose draft, “Your letter…”, undated
- Folder 1.6: Prose draft, “Poets write about…”, undated
- Folder 1.7-1.20: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 1.21: Biography review, 1973
- Folder 1.22: Funeral service program for Smith, Roger, 1979
- Folder 1.23: “Gwendolyn Elizabeth” by Lambert, W.", 1990
- Folder 1.24: Newspapers and magazine articles related to Gwendolyn Brooks, 1989, 1992, undated
- One item removed to Box 521 OS.
- Folder 1.25: Newspapers and magazine articles related to other subjects, 1986-1987, 1989, 1991-1992
- Some items have been removed to Box 521 OS.
- Folder 1.29-1.31: “Important Important”
- Folder 1.29: Poetry drafts
- Item 1: “2000 Haitians"
- Item 2: “Snow is wet", undated
- Item 3: “Alice Browning", 1985
- Folder 1.30: Prose drafts
- Item 1: “Is war a viable?”, 1980
- Item 2: “James Baldwin", undated
- Folder 1.31: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 1.32-1.42: “Important Notes for Autobiog.”
- Folder 1.32: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 1.33: McKinley & Pryor Vocal Duo business card, undated
- Folder 1.34: Amtrak’s Metropolitan lounge ticket, 1993
- Folder 1.35: Financial records: receipts, undated
- Folder 1.36: Financial records: Bills, statements and invoices, 1992, undated
- Folder 1.37: Newspapers and magazine articles related to other subjects, 1993, undated
- Folder 1.38: “Sort”
- Item 1: “Poetry – 367", 1993
- Item 2: "Varied verse” by William Beyer, undated
- Item 3: “How beautiful", undated
- Item 4: "Important Notes For Autobiog.” envelope, undated
- Folder 1.39: Prose drafts, “The Black Family”, undated
- Folder 1.40: Prose drafts, "To The Young Graduates”, undated
- Folder 1.41: Prose drafts, notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 1.42: “About John Schultz’s Anthology”, undated
- Removed for conservation.
- Folder 1.43: “Maud Martha (Important)”, undated
- Folder 1.44: Manila envelope
- Folder 1.44: Correspondence by Gwendolyn Brooks, undated
- Folder 1.45: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 1.46: Manila envelope, undated
- Folder 1.47: “Writing Plans", undated
- Folder 1.48: Church notes, 1968
- Folder 1.49: “Mouse", undated
- Folder 1.50: Political notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 1.51: Newspapers and magazine articles related to other subjects, 1989, undated
- Folder 1.52: “Notes” envelope, undated
- File 2: “Original Manuscript”
- Folder 2.1: “The Clipping Club", undated
- Folder 2.2: Poetry drafts
- Item 1: “Johannesburg Boy", undated
- Item 2: “Nelson Mandela", undated
- Item 3: "Winnie", undated
- Folder 2.3: Prose drafts
- Item 1: “Raymond Brooks Jr.”, 1990
- Item 2: “Robert Hayden", undated
- Item 3: Paragraph from “Young Poets Primer", undated
- Item 4: “Of Flowers and Fire and Flowers", undated
- Folder 2.4: Prose drafts, undated
- Item 1: “The last clean claim…”, 1987
- Item 2: “As I…”, undated
- Folder 2.5: Notes and jottings, undated
- Box 295
- File 1: “Notes + Clippings”
- Folder 1.1: Correspondence to Blakely, Henry, undated
- Folder 1.2: Poetry drafts, “R. P.”, undated
- Folder 1.3: Prose drafts
- Item 1: "Title: ‘Little Quick Pictures’”, undated
- Item 2: Regarding poem “Sermon On The Warpland", undated
- Item 3: “Blacks are always ahead of history…”, undated
- Folder 1.4-1.8: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 1.9: Return receipt for Saks Fifth Avenue, undated
- Folder 1.10: Newspapers and magazine articles related to other subjects, 1994, 2000
- Folder 1.11: Notes and jottings related to logistics, 1999, undated
- Folder 1.12: Business cards related to logistics, undated
- Folder 1.13: Social security card, undated
- Folder 1.14-1.15: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 1.16: Phone numbers and addresses, undated
- Folder 1.17: Newspapers and magazine articles related to other subjects, undated
- Folder 1.18: Poetry from The Song of Lawino by Okot p'Bitek, 1966
- Folder 1.19: Poetry drafts
- Item 1: “First School Days”, 2000
- Item 2: “It’s School-Time!” and “We real cool", undated
- Folder 1.20: Prose drafts, undated
- Folder 1.21: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 1.22: Gwendolyn Brooks event program from Morgan State University, 2000
- Folder 1.23: Newspapers and magazine articles relating to Gwendolyn Brooks, undated
- Folder 1.24: Prose draft, “Looking at me these days"
- Folder 1.25: Prose drafts, notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 1.26: “Why I Keep Off Television", undated
- Folder 1.27: Empty envelope of Chocolate Chips theatre company addressed to Hicks, Shelley M., undated
- Folder 1.28: Third World Press pamphlet, undated
- Folder 1.29: Commune T-Shirt Company pamphlet, 2000
- Folder 1.30: Manila envelope, undated
- Folder 2: "Notes For Poetry", undated
- Sealed envelope.
- File 3: “Notes on existing Brooks books”
- Folder 3.1-3.11: Black record book
- Folder 3.1: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 3.2: Black record book, undated
- Contains recipes, phone number, and addresses.
- Folder 3.3-3.11: “Northeastern Black Literature", undated
- Folder 3.12-3.13: Blue nemo notebook
- Folder 3.12: Blue memo notebook
- Item 1: “Children Coming Home", undated
- Item 2: “Notes", undated
- Item 3: “Old", 1990
- Item 4: Notes and jottings, undated
- Item 5: “Don’t deny the diagnosis…”, undated
- Item 6: “For autobiog.”, undated
- Folder 3.13: Newspaper and magazine article related to other subjects, undated
- Removed to Box 521 OS.
- Folder 3.14-3.19: Pocket calendar labeled “Ghana”
- Folder 3.14: Prose draft, 1974
- Folder 3.15: Pocket calendar labeled "Ghana", 1974
- Includes phone numbers, addresses, and prose drafts.
- Folder 3.16: Contact information for others, 1974
- Folder 3.17: “Elnira", undated
- Folder 3.18: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 3.19: Phone number and addresses, undated
- Folder 3.20: Poetry drafts
- Item 1: “Old Woman’s Rap,” handwritten, 1990
- Item 2: “Old Woman’s Rap,” typed, 1990
- Folder 3.21-3.22: Old age prose drafts, undated
- Folder 3.23-3.24: Red address book
- Folder 3.23: Red address book, 1982
- Includes prose drafts.
- Folder 3.24: Newspapers and magazine articles related to other subjects, undated
- Box 296
- File 2: “Notes on existing Brooks books” (cont.)
- Folder 2.25: Prose draft, “Ellen", 1990
- Folder 2.26: Prose draft, "Walston was determined to be a writer”, undated
- Folder 2.27-2.29: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 2.29: Notebook, “Blacks: Volume II : Short Fictions”, undated
- Includes “Children, Coming Home.”
- Folder 2.30: Newspaper and magazine articles related to other subjects, Mandela, Nelson, 1990
- Folder 2.31: Correspondence, Parks, Carole A., 1987
- Folder 2.32: Prose draft, “Seeds For the Coming Hell and Health Together”, undated
- Folder 2.33: Record book, notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 2.34: Record book, 1962
- Includes prose drafts.
- Folder 2.35: Yellow notebook, empty envelope, undated
- Folder 2.36: Yellow notebook, 1989-1990
- Includes “1989 resolutions,” recipes, and notes and jottings.
- Folder 2.37: Poetry drafts
- Item 1: “I can go right to the root", 1988
- Item 2: “Peace and the anticipation of peace…”, undated
- Item 3: “Soon forgotten…”, undated
- Item 4: "Going to Aunt Gertie’s", undated
- Folder 2.38: Prose drafts, 1985, 1988, undated
- Folder 2.39: Prose drafts, undated
- Folder 2.40-2.41: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 2.42: Phone numbers and addresses, undated
- Folder 2.43: Newspaper and magazine articles related to Gwendolyn Brooks, “A Remarkable Narrative Poem”, 1969
- Folder 2.44: Floral notebook, 1981
- Includes prose drafts relating to Mandela, Nelson and Mandela, Winnie.
- Folder 2.45: Floral notebook, green bookmark, undated
- Folder 2.46: “Notes on existing Brooks books” manila envelope, undated
- File 3: Poems, Essays, and Speeches, undated
- Folder 3.1: “In here: Poems ‘Chicago State University’ and “Captain Dolores.’ Also Haki’s latest salute to me”, undated
- Includes prose by Madhubuti, Haki (Don L. Lee).
- Folder 3.2-3.3: “May 5 Speech/Other Speeches", 1986, undated
- Folder 3.4-3.6: “All done July 12-13”
- Folder 3.4: Poetry drafts
- Item 1: “The Assassination of John F. Kennedy”, 1968
- Item 2: “Malcolm X", 1968
- Item 3: “Kitchenette Building", 1968
- Item 4: “Martin Luther King", 1968
- Folder 3.5-3.6: Prose drafts, 1968
- Box 297
- File 1: “Originals of Graduation Speeches”
- Folder 1.1: Poem and prose drafts
- Item 1: Correspondence, Illinois Founders Insurance Co., 1988
- Includes only correspondence from Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Item 2: 3 copies of “Collage", 1999
- Item 3: “To Fit In", undated
- Folder 1.2: Poem and prose drafts
- Item 1: "Jane Addams,” handwritten, undated
- Item 2: “Jane Addams,” typed, 1989
- Item 3: “Survive", undated
- Item 4: “To Fit In", undated
- Folder 1.3: Poem and prose drafts
- Item 1: “To Fit In", undated
- Item 2: "We", 1987
- Item 3: “There are thousands of little things to say to young people”, undated
- Folder 1.4: Prose drafts
- Item 1: “The Black Family", undated
- Item 2: “Read: To Those Of My Sisters", undated
- Folder 1.5: Prose drafts
- Item 1: “Forrestville, Commencement Day”, 1968
- Item 2: “You young people", undated
- Item 3: "It Is Our Business To Be Bothered", undated
- Folder 1.6: Prose drafts, Addams, Jane, 1993, undated
- Folder 1.7: Prose drafts, “The Life and Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar", 1987
- Folder 1.8-1.9: Prose drafts, undated
- Folder 1.10: Prose drafts, Brooks Junior High School, 1994
- Folder 1.11-1.12: Prose drafts, 1990, undated
- Folder 1.13: Prose drafts, Edward Jenner Elementary School and University of Vermont, 1986, 1997, undated
- Folder 1.14-1.17: Prose drafts, undated
- Folder 1.18: Public engagements
- Item 1: “Jane Addams", 1989
- Item 2: Gwendolyn Brooks Junior High School Promotion Exercises program, 1997
- Item 3: Lecture program at Illinois College, undated
- Folder 1.19: Public engagements, Gwendolyn Brooks Center, undated
- One item moved to Box 521 OS.
- Folder 1.20: Published works, “to disembark", 1981
- Folder 2: Paperclipped grouping, poetry drafts
- Item 1: “Behind the Scenes", undated
- Item 2: “Last Inauguration of Mayor Harold Washington", 1987
- Item 3: “Tornado Near Talladega", 1984
- File 3: “Parts + Sundries” envelope
- Folder 3.1: Correspondence
- Item 1: Pope, Rhonda, Mary Anerison?, Harold White, and Sheila Carson, 1972
- Item 2: Shaw, Katie, undated
- Folder 3.2: Correspondence, unidentified, undated
- Folder 3.3-3.7: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 3.8: Notebook, notes and jottings, 1978, undated
- Folder 3.9: Blank stationary paper, undated
- Folder 3.10: Public engagement: phone numbers and addresses, undated
- Folder 3.11-3.12: Newspapers and magazines: articles related to other subjects, 1979, undated
- Folder 3.13-3.16: “Notes” envelope
- Folder 3.13: “Notes” envelope, correspondence, Alexandroff, Mike, undated
- Includes only correspondence by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Folder 3.14-3.15: “Notes” envelope, notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 3.16: “Notes” envelope, public engagements, phone numbers, undated
- Folder 3.17: Prose drafts, “Poetry And/Or Life, undated
- Folder 3.18-3.19: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 3.20: Newspapers and magazines, undated
- Folder 3.21: Poetry drafts
- Item 1: “Then Lullaby", undated
- Item 2: “Poem", undated
- Folder 3.22: Prose drafts, undated
- Folder 3.23-3.25: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 3.26: Newspapers and magazines: articles related to Gwendolyn Brooks, 1973
- Folder 3.27: Newspapers and magazines: articles related to other subjects, undated
- Folder 3.28-3.29: Yellow notebook
- Folder 3.28: Yellow notebook, undated
- Folder 3.29: Newspapers and magazines: articles related to other subjects, undated
- Folder 3.30: “Parts + Sundries” envelope, undated
- Box 298
- File 1: “Pieces of Poetry”
- Folder 1.1: Correspondence, Bolsouer, Ann, 1983
- Folder 1.2: Poetry drafts, “The bullets are in the skins of my people…”, undated
- Folder 1.3-1.4: Prose drafts, undated
- Folder 1.5-1.7: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 1.8: Public engagements: advertisements for non-Gwendolyn Brooks events, Metropolitan Community Church Tidings, 1982
- Folder 1.9-1.13: Blank envelope
- Folder 1.9-1.10: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 1.11-1.12: Prose drafts, undated
- Folder 1.13: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 1.14: Advertisements, 1984 conference, undated
- Folder 1.15: Newspapers and magazines: articles related to other subjects, undated
- Folder 1.16: “Pieces of Poetry” envelope, undated
- File 2: “Poems, Articles, Typed Letters, etc.”
- Folder 2.1-2.10: “Typed copies of Poems, etc. (Gwendolyn Brooks)”
- Folder 2.1: Correspondence, Mueller, Mr., 1986
- Includes “The Near – Johannesburg Boy,” “Whitney Young,” “Blacks,” “Tornado at Talladega,” “The Good Man,” and “Infirm.”
- Folder 2.2: Correspondence, Bruckner, Don, 1986
- Includes only correspondence by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Folder 2.3: Correspondence
- Item 1: Madhubuti, Haki (Don L. Lee), 1986
- Includes only correspondence by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Item 2: Mueller, Mr., 1986
- Includes only correspondence by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Item 3: “Building", undated
- Folder 2.4: Poetry drafts
- Item 1: “Early Death", undated
- Item 2: “To The Young Who Want To Die", 1985
- Item 3: “Life is fast enough!”, undated
- Item 4: “The Good Man", 1965
- Item 5: “In Nairobi", undated
- Item 6: “Infirm", undated
- Folder 2.5: Poetry drafts
- Item 1: “Martin Luther King Jr.”, undated
- Item 2: “To Michael Who Is Young Russia", 1982
- Item 3: “To A Proper Black Man", undated
- Item 4: “To The Young Who Want To Die", undated
- Two copies.
- Folder 2.6: Published works
- Item 1: “To Those Of My Sisters Who Kept Their Naturals", undated
- Item 2: “Tornado At Talladega", undated
- Item 3: “Whitney Young", 1981
- Item 4: Review of “The Life of Langston Hughes” by Rampersad, Arnold, undated
- Folder 2.7: Published works
- Item 1: Review of “The Life of Langston Hughes” by Rampersad, Arnold, undated
- Item 2: “The Near-Johannesburg Boy and other poems” inside cover draft, 1986
- Folder 2.8-2.9: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 2.10: Picasso
- Item 1: “The Chicago Picasso", 1986
- Four copies.
- Item 2: "The Chicago Picasso", 1967
- Item 3: "Trapped” by Davidson, Aurelia, 1980
- Item 4: “Typed copies of Poems, etc. (Gwendolyn Brooks)” manila envelope, undated
- Folder 2.11: “Poems, Articles, Typed Letters, etc.” manila envelope, undated
- File 3: Poetry and prose drafts
- Folder 3.1: Poetry and prose drafts, undated
- Includes “For Incipient Suicides.”
- Folder 3.2: Prose drafts, undated
- File 4: Poems, scraps, and green notebook
- Folder 4.1: Poetry drafts
- Item 1: “Bring on the spot brassieres!”, undated
- Item 2: “My Mother", 1975
- Item 3: "Primer For Blacks", undated
- Item 4: “What shall we do about and for the City?”, undated
- Folder 4.2: Poetry drafts, 1973, undated
- Folder 4.3: Poetry drafts regarding Salisbury, Harrison, 1993
- Folder 4.4-4.7: Green notebook
- Folder 4.4: Poetry draft, undated
- Folder 4.5: Prose drafts, undated
- Folder 4.6: Notes and jottings, 1992, undated
- Folder 4.7: Green notebook, undated
- Includes unpublished poem “Morning.”
- File 5: “Scraps + Repetitions”
- Folder 5.1: Prose drafts
- Item 1: “Family Pictures", undated
- Item 2: “Blacks", undated
- Folder 5.2: Prose drafts
- Item 1: “Our Name", undated
- Item 2: “had better get together…”, undated
- Item 3: “Salute your siblings…”, 1994
- Item 4: Prose regarding “Family Pictures", undated
- Folder 5.3: Published works, “The Message", undated
- Folder 5.4: “Scraps and repetitions” prose drafts, undated
- Folder 5.5: “Scraps and repetitions” envelope, undated
- File 6: “Special Notes”
- Folder 6.1: Correspondence, Contemporary Forum, 1993
- Folder 6.2: Correspondence, Gerety, Tom and Adelia Moore (Trinity College), undated
- Folder 6.3: Poetry drafts, “Boy Breaking Glass", undated
- Folder 6.4: Poetry drafts, "To The Young Student", undated
- Folder 6.5: Prose drafts, “Most Workers In The Wild", undated
- Folder 6.6: Prose drafts, undated
- Folder 6.7: Prose drafts, “Most Workers In The Wild", undated
- Folder 6.8: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 6.9: Advertisements and publicity for non-Gwendolyn Brooks events, “The Black Bookworm Mail-Order Company, undated
- Folder 6.10: Works of others, “You’re Special Gwendolyn Brooks” by McGaray, Lela, undated
- Folder 6.11: “Special Notes” envelope, undated
- Folder 7: “Speech Notes,” notes and jottings, 1998, undated
- Includes “I am still free verse and rhyme.”
- Box 299
- File 1: “Speeches, Articles, Tributes, Special Letters”
- Folder 1.1: Correspondence
- Item 1: Blakely, Nora Brooks, 1998
- Includes only correspondence by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Item 2: Mueller, Lothar, undated
- Includes only correspondence by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Item 3: Unidentified, undated
- Includes only correspondence by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Folder 1.2: Prose drafts, undated
- Includes Blacks familyhood statement and “In The Whirlwind.”
- Folder 1.3: Prose drafts, undated
- Includes “Notes on Nancy Galbraith” and speech explaining “We Real Cool.”
- Folder 1.4-1.5: Prose drafts, undated
- Folder 1.6: Prose drafts, undated
- Includes “Books. Reading. Libraries.” and “Haki.”
- Folder 1.7: “Speeches, Articles, Tributes, Special Letters” envelope
- File 2: “Third World Press (Contracts)”
- Folder 2.1: Correspondence, Madhubuti, Haki (Don L. Lee), 1998, undated
- Includes Third World Press contracts.
- Folder 2.2: Correspondence, Madhubuti, Haki (Don L. Lee), 1996-1998
- Includes Third World Press contracts.
- Folder 3: “Third World Press Contracts", 1991
- File 4: “To my future biographers”
- Folder 4.1: Prose drafts
- Item 1: “The Good Neighbor” regarding Boswell, Banks, undated
- Item 2: Prose regarding Kent, George, undated
- Folder 4.2: Interviews, undated
- Folder 4.3-4.4: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 4.5: “To my future biographers” envelope, undated
- File 5: “Tributes”
- Folder 5.1: Prose drafts
- Item 1: Writing regarding Brown, Sterling, undated
- Item 2: “In Memory of Roger Smith", 1979
- Item 3: “Of Otto Kenner", 1976
- Two copies
- Folder 5.2: “Where The Kind Kills Are", undated
- Item 1: “Where The Kind Kills Are", undated
- Item 2: “Remembering for our forever", undated
- Item 3: Prose regarding Rodgers, Carolyn, undated
- File 6: “Washington D.C.”
- Folder 6.1-6.6: Speeches grouping
- Folder 6.1: Correspondence, Williams, Sian, 1986
- Folder 6.2-6.5: Prose drafts, undated
- Folder 6.6: Stationary, undated
- Folder 6.7-6.11: Tributes grouping
- Folder 6.7: Prose drafts, undated
- Includes “Donald Hall.”
- Folder 6.8: Prose drafts
- Item 1: “Etheridge Knight", undated
- Item 2: "Tagliabue, John", undated
- Folder 6.9: Prose drafts
- Item 1: “Michael Benedikt", undated
- Item 2: “Yevgeny Yevtushenko", undated
- Folder 6.10: Prose drafts, undated
- Includes photo.
- Folder 6.11: “Washington D.C.” envelope", undated
- File 7: “Xeroxes (Letters, Poems)”
- Folder 7.1: Correspondence, Feeley, Betsey, 1993
- Includes correspondence by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Folder 7.2: Correspondence, Madhubuti, Haki (Don L. Lee), undated
- Includes only correspondence by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Folder 7.3: Correspondence, “Molly”, 1993, undated
- Includes only correspondence by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Folder 7.4: Correspondence, unidentified correspondent, undated
- Includes only correspondence by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Folder 7.5: Published works, “Captain Dolores", 1991
- Seven copies
- Folder 7.6: Published works
- Item 1: Kinko’s receipt", undated
- Item 2: “Collage For Today", undated
- Item 3: “The Great Man", undated
- Item 4: "Jane Addams", 1989
- Three copies
- Folder 7.7: Published works, “To An Old Black Woman, Homeless and Indistinct”, 1992
- Five copies
- Folder 7.8: Notes and jottings, undated
- Folder 7.9: Correspondence, Rochmon, Hazel, 1993
- Includes only correspondence by Gwendolyn Brooks
- Folder 7.10: Public engagements: advertisements and publicity, “Go Ahead and Live Your Life”, undated
- Three copies
- Folder 7.11: Works of others, “Corrupt Originals: The Paradox of Censorship” by Holquist, Michael, undated
- Folder 7.12: Newspaper articles related to Gwendolyn Brooks, review by Beyer, William, undated
- Seven copies
- Folder 7.13: Photographs of Gwendolyn Brooks, undated
- Two copies
- Folder 7.14: Financial records, undated
- Folder 7.15: “Xeroxes (Letters, Poems)” envelope, undated
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