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Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series: The Manuscripts Series consists mainly of prose manuscripts by Ned O'Gorman, but include a few writings by friends and acquaintances. Among the most interesting of O'Gorman's manuscripts may well be his autobiographical writings, under the title 'Venerated Trinkets, Kept Memorials and Things Lifted Up...' Many pages of poems, both whole and fragmented, are also contained in the series. Another interesting manuscript is that of Edna Ramsey Yellins, a black woman from Harlem; the manuscript...