Box 27
Contains 85 Results:
Ellison: Personal Documents, Birth Certificate, 1997
Callahan's search records from Ancestry.com as well as the Oklahoma Dept. of Health regarding Ellison's disputed official date of birth and birth certificate.
Ellison: Personal Documents, Verification of Birth (3/1/14), September 11, 1943
Copy of affidavit signed by family friend J.L. Randolph attesting to Ellison's date of birth. Signed by a notary public.
Ellison: Personal Documents, Marriage Certificate, September 16, 1938
Photocopy of marriage certificate between Ralph Ellison and actress Rose Poindexter. New Haven, CT, 1938.
Ellison: Personal Documents, Ida Bell's Death Certificate, October 1937
Photocopy of file from the Cincinatti Board of Health certifying the death of Ida Bell, Ellison's mother, from tuberculosis.
Ellison: Personal Documents, Letterhead as Photographer, undated
Single page copy of a possible business card or other form of personal adverstisement.
Ellison: Personal Documents, Autobiographical Notes, 1947
3 pages of prose describing Ellison's early life in his own words. Written shortly before the release of Invisible Man.
Callahan: EllisonNotice of Speaking Engagement, 19791987
Two notices or pieces of publicity promoting Ellison's speaking engagements. One at Washington University for MLK Day, 1979; the other part of the Walt Whitman Poetry Series, Winter/Spring 1987.
Ellison: Personal Documents, Guggenheim Foundation, September 16, 1954
Ellison's unsuccessful application to the Guggenheim Foundation, for his second novel.
Callahan: Sundquist, "Ras the Killer", May 16June 16, 1995
Correspondence between Callahan and Sundquist, along with copies of FBI memos from 1941-42 which discuss a possible inspiration for Ellison's character in Invisible Man.
Ellison: Juneteenth excerpt, 1965
From the Quarterly Review of Literature, 1965. 14 pages, photocopy.