McKay, Claude - Manuscripts: Poems, Notes, Article., No date found in GAMMS

File — Box: 39, Folder: 27

Identifier: GAMMS472.1.2733

Series-level Scope and Content Note

From the Series:

The Individual Authors Series contains correspondence, manuscripts, questionnaires from the Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, photos, publications, and clippings relating to individual authors who were accepted or considered as members of the Gallery of Living Catholic Authors established by Sister Mary Joseph, S.L., in 1932. The series is arranged alphabetically by author. Boxes 1-66.

Dates

No date found in GAMMS

Collection-level Access Restrictions

Most manuscripts collections at the Georgetown University Booth Family Center for Special Collections are open to researchers; however, restrictions may apply to some collections. Collections stored off site require a minimum of three days for retrieval. For use of all manuscripts collections, researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections in advance of any visit.

Extent

From the Collection: 125 Linear Feet (84 boxes and 1 oversized folder)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Container Summary

Mss by Claude McKay include AMs (2 pp.) in pencil which contains drafts of letters to "Dear Dorothy" and "Dear Charlie" which refer to Communism and Catholicism, AMs (1 p.) with auto. corr. which is draft of poem beginning "The Middle Ages...," TMs (23 pp.) with auto. corr. which is titled "Right Turn to Catholicism," and carbons of TMss of poems divided into sections titled "Different Places" (8 pp.), "Baptism" (23 pp.), "Amoroso" (24 pp.), "The Word & Poems Old and New: American" (12 pp.), "Songs for Jamaica" (16 pp.), and "If We Must Die" (1 p.). Includes xerox TMs (1 p.) which is "Introduction to `If We Must Die'." Original is in "Laminated Mss" Series.