Nonfiction: essays

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1. "After Reading Mr. Broyard's Amazing Article..." 2 pages (2 copies), ?
2. "American Negro in Paris" - Manuscript, 11 pages Typescript, 3 pages
3. "An American in Paris" Typescript, 10 pages Edits
4. "American Negro Abroad," Carbon Copy, 3 Pages
5. April 7, Istanbul, The Occasion of the Orphan Kemal Jubilee
6. "American Experience and the Novel"
7. "Black as Night? Sin? Death or Hell? Concerning Black English" - Typescript, 8 pages
8. "Black Panthers"
9. "Booker T. Washington, His Legend, and His Role" 9 pages, 2 Letters
10. "Cesar" (Sculptor)
11. "Concerning Naples" – Manuscript, 5 pages; Typescript, 2 pages
12. (Essay on) Daisy Miller/Henry James (pages 1-4) and John Dos Passos/J. Ward Moorehouse (pages 5-12)
13. "The Deathbed Conversation" [2/1]
14. Essay for The Observer
15. "Five Most Important Books" (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
16. "The Four Portfolios - Scurlock, Lewis, Carter and Van Lierop"
17. "(In Search of) A Basis For Mutual Understanding and Racial Harmony"
18. "In the Cross, A Trembling Soul" - Typescript, Edits 8 pages
19. "Incest, Fear of" - Typescript, Edits, 3 pages
20. Intercepted Memo on Daniel (by Baldwin) 2 pages
21. "Letter to the Candidate"
22. "Letter to the Prince of Peace," and "Second Open Letter to the Prince of Peace" (Richard Nixon)
23. Letter to Promote Voter Education Project, 3 pages
24. "Marlon" (Brando)
25. "My Body to be Burned" - Typescript, 2 pages; Handwritten, 1 page
26. The New York Times Symposium (Uncorrected), 3 pages
27. "Notes on Beauford Delaney," Typescript, 2 pages, 1 handwritten page (Incomplete)
28. Notes on Harlem
29. Notes on the Wilwyck School for Boys, Carbon Copy, 3 pages
30. Notes Reflections in Black and White, Carbon Copies 4 pages, 2 pages of Questions
31. "The Novelist as Playwright" – Typescript, 2 pages; Letter, January 19(?)
32. On Artists, Manuscript, 7 pages
33. "On Being in Istanbul"
34. "On Being White" Possible Early Version of The Price of the Ticket – Manuscript, 9 pages
35. On Bobby Kennedy Meeting – Typescript, 6 pages
36. On Hank Thompson - Manuscript, 3 pages, Clippings
37. "On Martin Luther King, Jr." Carbon Copy, 2 pages
38. On Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela Freedom Foundation
39. On Patty Hearst
40. On the "Negro Problem" – Manuscript, 5 pages, Notes
41. On the Imprisonment of Haitians – Typescript, 3 pages
42. On The Corn Is Green, Bette Davis
43. On the Writing of Go Tell It on the Mountain, Typed, 3 pages, Letter
44. On Wine, Typescript, Handwritten Notes
45. "One Potato" or "Manifest Destiny" or "Meanwhile Home on the Range" - Typescripts (3 Versions)
46. "Our Children: The Harlem 6," – Typescript and Handwritten Notes
47. Paris, - Several Typescripts, Some Handwritten pages
48. "Private Letter [To Bobby]"
49. "Roots, and the Reichstag Fire and the Promised Land"
50. "Shout for Joy", 2 typescripts (original and photocopy), 5 pages, and two page typescript
51. "Show Me the Way" Draft, Essence Magazine Unpublished, 45 pages, Loose Pages
52. "Some Notes on the Novel" – Typescript, 7 pages
53. "Spring " April (?), 7 pages
54. Statement of Mr. James Baldwin on the F.B.I.,,5 pages
55. Statement on Birmingham Typescript, Original, 2 Photocopies, Notes
56. Statement on Lord Russell's War Crime Tribunal – Manuscript, 6 1/2 pages; Typescript, 4 pages
57. "Tale of Two Cities" - Manuscript, Legal Pad, 20 pages, Notes
58. "To Whom It May Concern" (On Language) Typescripts, One Original, 6 Copies
59. "Tomorrow Brought Us Rain" (Concerning Black American Education)- Typescript, 30 pages
60. "Toward: A New Language"
61. "The Crime", "Let My People Go", and "Image of the Negro in the American Literature"
62. "Whoever So Will" (Discovery)
63. A-E
64. F-M
65. N-S