Unpublished

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1571690
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3206480
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{"value"=>"Unpublished"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Within the unpublished subseries, there are two typescripts and other material for an unfinished novel, \"No Papers for Mohamet\". Also included is an unfinished play, <span class=\"title\">The Welcome Table</span> (ca. 1970s), which focuses on Josephine Baker's home and her proclivity for inviting people of all cultures into her family. These files contain original and photocopied handwritten and typed playscripts and a sketch for a set design. Included in the third subgroup, Nonfiction, are various unpublished essays and an alphabetical file of mostly untitled essays. In terms of poetry, unpublished poems are filed alphabetically by title or subject. Baldwin's unproduced screen works include \"The Inheritance\" (also titled \"In the Cross, a Trembling Soul: The Inheritance\") and \"The Swordfish\" (also known as \"The Sacrifice\" and \"Holding On\"). The \"Inheritance\" file includes edited drafts, a bound copy of the screenplay, a note on potential casting for the production, and handwritten notes. \"The Swordfish\" file, based on a novel by Osmen Naomi Gurmen, consists of various handwritten and typed drafts with edits. The Other works subgroup includes notes, lectures, and speeches. The notes files features a typescript recalling Baldwin's meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and notes on Birmingham, Alabama, amongst others. Also filed here are ideas for a novel, \"Any Boot-Legger\"; ideas for a speech, \"Bring Me a Minstrel\"; and a short story, \"The Outer Life\". Throughout his life, Baldwin was in-demand as a speaker, nationally and internationally (see Invitations to Speak in the Business Records series for more detailed information). The lectures and speeches section includes handwritten notes for a speech at Harvard entitled \"The Cultural Implications of the Negro Revolt\" and a 9-page transcription of an untitled speech on civil rights. The remainder of this subseries, Other writing, includes proposals, librettos, teleplays, and other miscellaneous writings in handwritten drafts, typescripts, and letters. There are copies of a four-page proposal for \"Unto the Dying Lamb,\" a project that Baldwin stated \"...would document, in photographs and in prose, the influence and awaiting entrapment of storefront churches in Harlem for the African Americans who frequented them\". According to biographer David Leeming, this project was never completed for lack of a publisher (Leeming 55).</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Arranged into nine subgroups: (1) Novels; (2) Plays; (3) Nonfiction; (4) Short stories; (5) Poetry; (6) Screenplays; (7) Other works; (8) Reviews; and (9) Other writing.</p>"}

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  1. Novel, "No Papers for Mohamet" [2/2]
  2. Plays [2/3]
  3. Nonfiction: essays [65/2]
  4. Short stories [6/3]
  5. Poetry [6/1]
  6. Screenplays [2/2]
  7. Other works [2/3]
  8. Reviews [4/1]
  9. Other Writings [20/2]