{"value"=>"<p>The first subgroup of the Published subseries focuses on Baldwin's novels; each of his six novels are represented here in order of publication: <span class=\"title\">Go Tell It On the Mountain</span>, <span class=\"title\">Giovanni's Room</span>, <span class=\"title\">Another Country</span>, <span class=\"title\">Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone</span>, <span class=\"title\">If Beale Street Could Talk</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Just Above My Head</span>. The <span class=\"title\">Go Tell it On the Mountain</span> (1953) file contains a sixteen-page outline of the novel (1950) and several handwritten and typed manuscripts with annotated notes and fragments. The first proof for the novel with marked corrections and questions (1952) is listed here. The <span class=\"title\">Giovanni's Room</span> (1956) files feature the publisher's original manuscript for the novel (1956); several typescripts with Baldwin's and the editor's corrections and edits; annotations, fragments, and playscripts (1964 and 1982); a stage layout; and several iterations of the adapted screenplay. <span class=\"title\">Another Country</span> (1962) includes Baldwin's plan for the novel, the original publisher's manuscript, early draft typescripts (some incomplete and several with author edits), and a galley. Several rewrites, additions, inserts, notes, contracts, a screen treatment, a screenplay, correspondence with Claude Jauvert, and Baldwin's response to reviews from <span class=\"title\">The New York Times</span> and <span class=\"title\">Time</span> Magazine augment this file. <span class=\"title\">Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone</span> (1968) consists of two incomplete handwritten manuscripts, incomplete typescripts with edits, handwritten notes, and the galley for the book. The <span class=\"title\">If Beale Street Could Talk</span> file (1974) includes two handwritten manuscripts, a typescript, a tentative casting list for a film project, and notes. There are also letters from Dial Press and Universal Pictures, the latter requesting a copy of the novel (1970-1975). The file for Baldwin's last novel, <span class=\"title\">Just Above My Head</span> (1979), encompasses several handwritten partial manuscripts on yellow pads and numerous original and photocopied typescripts with annotations and notes. Act one of the playscript with edits based on the novel, sheet music and scores, and a copy of a contract for a French edition of the novel are filed here. The playscripts subgroup includes two of Baldwin's original plays, <span class=\"title\">The Amen Corner</span> and <span class=\"title\">Blues for Mister Charlie</span>, for which he oversaw the productions. A dramatization of <span class=\"title\">Giovanni's Room</span>, the playscript, and related materials are filed under novels. The majority of the <span class=\"title\">The Amen Corner</span> files contain playscripts with typed and handwritten edits, a cast list, and notes (ca. 1964). Notably, one playscript is inscribed by the members of the Actors Studio cast (1964). A French translation of <span class=\"title\">Amen</span> (1982) by Belgian-born French novelist and essayist, Marguerite Yourcenar, is also filed here. Correlative materials include a flyer, a program, playbill, a press release for a European Festival Tour in 1965, and a book jacket for the published play. <span class=\"title\">Blues for Mister Charlie</span> files include a manuscript on a yellow notepad and loose sheets of paper; a handwritten manuscript and typescripts with notes and rewrites; a galley; screen treatments; and background research. Additionally, there are production notes, opening night telegrams, a sketch of a set design, letters from the Actors Studio, contracts, letters discussing the possibility of <span class=\"title\">Mister Charlie</span> as a film, and fan mail. Included in the third subgroup, Nonfiction, are drafts of Baldwin's published nonfiction collections and individual essays. Seven collections, <span class=\"title\">Notes of a Native Son</span> (1955), <span class=\"title\">Nobody Knows My Name</span> (1961), <span class=\"title\">The Fire Next Time</span> (1963), <span class=\"title\">No Name in the Street</span> (1972), <span class=\"title\">The Devil Finds Work</span> (1976), <span class=\"title\">The Evidence of Things Not Seen</span> (1985), and <span class=\"title\">The Price of the Ticket</span> (1985) are represented in handwritten drafts, typescripts, and sometimes, final published versions. Of special note is a revised typescript and correction for the essay \"Notes of a Native Son\", a signed carbon copy of \"Nobody Knows My Name\", \"Faulkner and Desegregation\" with clippings, an original typescript copy of \"Down at the Crossroads\", returned from <span class=\"title\">The New Yorker</span>, and a handwritten draft of <span class=\"title\">No Name in the Street</span>. Some previously published and unpublished essays collected posthumously in The Library of America's <span class=\"title\">Baldwin: Collected Essays</span> (1998) and the <span class=\"title\">Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings</span> (2010) are included as well. The Short stories subgroup contains draft materials for Baldwin's only short story collection, <span class=\"title\">Going to Meet the Man</span>, published in 1965. The file contains manuscripts, typescripts, and notes for the stories \"Come Out the Wilderness\", \"The Outing\", \"Previous Condition\", \"Sonny's Blues\", and \"This Morning, This Evening, So Soon.\" Baldwin began writing poetry in high school and published one volume of verse his during his lifetime, <span class=\"title\">Jimmy's Blues</span> (1983), which is included here. Additionally, two collections published posthumously, <span class=\"title\">Gypsy and Other Poems</span> (1989), and an edited edition of <span class=\"title\">Jimmy's Blues</span>, with an introduction by poet Nikky Finney (2014), are included. The first edition of <span class=\"title\">Jimmy's Blues</span> is represented by a galley, a photocopied version of the work, and iterations of several poems that appeared in the work. The Screenplay section includes proposals, manuscripts, galleys, correspondence, notes, and related items for <span class=\"title\">One Day When I Was Lost</span>, based on <span class=\"title\">The Autobiography of Malcolm X</span>. In Collaborative works, there is information about Baldwin's only children's book, <span class=\"title\">Little Man Little Man: A Story of Childhood</span> (with Yoran Cazac) (1976), which includes a photocopy of the published book. Reviews include Baldwin's response to Nelson Algren's review, \"Is '[A] Raisin in the Sun a Lemon in the Dark\", published in <span class=\"title\">Tone</span> magazine in 1961. An 8-page edited typescript for the review, \"On Catfish Row\", Baldwin's assessment of George Gershwin's 1934 film, <span class=\"title\">Porgy and Bess</span>, which first appeared in nonfiction collection <span class=\"title\">The Price of the Ticket</span>, initially titled \"On the American Performer\", is also filed here. Baldwin's take on Andre Gide's <span class=\"title\">Madeleine</span>, published under the title, \"The Male Prison\", which first appeared in the magazine <span class=\"title\">New Leader</span> (1954) and was reprinted in the collection <span class=\"title\">Nobody Knows My Name</span> (1961), can be found here.</p>"}