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Box 27

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Contains 85 Results:

Ellison: Humphrey Administration, 1968

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 11
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Typed letter, and carbon copy. Statement written by Ellison opining the relationship between the Humphrey administration and the National Foundation of the Arts and Humanities.

Dates: 1968

Ellison: Night-Talk, undated

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 12
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Correspondence, short story by Ellison. From the Quarterly Review of Literature. 12 pages.

Dates: undated

Ellison: Daily Calendar, 1968, 1968

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 13
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Daily calendar or notebook, for the year 1968. Produced by CBS Television Network. Mostly blank, except a note "John Callahan called. It killed the loneliness!" dated 10/17/96, most likely made by Fanny.

Dates: 1968

Ellison: Essay Notes"Roscoe Dunjee and the American Language", January 1973

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 14
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Manuscript of essay by Ellison. Rough draft, with many edits in pen. For The CRISIS Magazine. 15 pages.

Dates: January 1973

Ellison: American AcademyAddresses, 19781993

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 15
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Correspondence between Callahan and Kathryn Talalay of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Also included are copies of remarks made by Ellison to new members at the insitutution during his time as secretary of the institute.

Dates: 19781993

Ellison: American AcademyMember Introduction, 1979, 1979

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 16
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From the proceedings of the American Academy and Insitutute of Arts and Letters, 2nd series, no. 29 (New York, 1979). Manuscript draft of Ellison's address to the insitutute as secretary wlecoming new members.

Dates: 1979

Ellison: Essay Notes"American Humor", April 11, 1970

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 17
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Two copies, with notes, of a speech delivered by Ralph Ellison at Oklahoma State University.

Dates: April 11, 1970

Ellison: Essay Notes"A Song of Innocence", 1970

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 18
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From the Iowa Review (Spring 1970). Originally listed as ten pages long (30-40), this file contains only pages 36_40.

Dates: 1970

Callahan: Jervis Anderson, The New Yorker profile, December 17, 1998

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 19
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Correspondence between Callahan and Jervis Anderson, along with a copy of Anderson's profile of Ellison in The New Yorker, "Going to the Territory," from the week of November 22, 1976.

Dates: December 17, 1998

Ellison: "The Roof, the Steeple and the People", 1960

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 20
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Copy of a short story by Ellison, from the Quarterly Review of Literature, no. 10. 14 pages.

Dates: 1960