Manuscripts, Publications and Other Written Work

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National Anti-Slavery Bazaar Gazette.

Vol. I No. II The Old Cradle of Liberty.
Adams. F.C.

The Washers and scrubbers; the men who robbed and combined to rob the Freedmen of their hard earnings. Judd & Detweiler.
An "Underground" Escape. 1851

Portions of the essay taken from the "History of Warsaw" Gift of Abraham Harris, 2/2/40/
Bell Schoolhouse, Washington, D.C.

A history of Bell School, the first school for colored children in Washington, D.C.
Booker Washington and Tuskegee; a Southerners' View.

Extracted from: The Outlook, 871-873, April 13,.n.d.
Brown, William Wells.

"Miralda, or the Beautiful Quadroon; A Romance of American Slavery, Founded on Fact.
Burch, Charles Eaton.

Dunbar's poetry in literary English (Southern Workman, Vol. 50, no. 10) Oct. 1921.
Burrowes, Annesley.

Can’t Stop Relations of Whites and Blacks by Law, Asserts Burrowes . Reprinted from the Detroit Journal. Argument for miscegenation.
Butcher, Harriett Shadd, Manuscript.

Manuscript by Harriet Shadd. Butcher dedicated "To My Father and Mother With Measureless Love"... n.d. Incomplete text, pp. 14 missing. pp. 159 restricted from reproduction.
Calloway, T.J.

Talks with stereoptican views on negro life in the Black Belt of the South, 1900. Purchased from Bookworm and Silverfish. $5.50. 10/31/79
Chittenden, L.E.

The faith of President Lincoln. Extracted from: Harpers' New Monthly Magazine, 82: No. 489-37 PP. 385-391, n.d. Also includes article: The Heart of the Desert by Charles Dudley Warner, P. 392-412.
Crummell, Alexander.

Copy book of letters of Alexander Crummell, 1891-1896 Washington, DC. Contains 44 hand copied letters by Crummell written mostly to religious figures - gift of Dr. Sterling A. Brown, Dec. 4, 1973 - Correspondents Names & dates listed ...
D.C. History Curriculum Project Manuscript

Copies of parts of proposed Textbook (drafts). Part I: City of magniticent Intentions, Washington, DC, 1608-1861 by Dennis O’Toole; Washington, DC, Civil War Town to Modern City, 1861-18? By Lois E. Horton; the New World of Henry Adams, Flack - D.C. History Curriculum Project Donated by Thomas C. Battle, 1983 Washington D.C. Race Riot to Pearl Harbor, by Paul A. Groves; The Black Majority Washington since 1954 ....Project participant 1/17/79
Dunbar, Paul Laurence.

Autographs and title pages from books in the Thomas Montgomery Gregory Collection, Howard University, Moorland Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Washington, D. C.
Gone With The Wind.

Script. Selznick International Pictures, Inc., Hollywood, Calif.
Green, Constance Winsor McLaughlin, 1897-

Washington: Village and Capital, 1800-1878, and Washington; Capital City, 1879-1950. Manuscript, /1962/. Published in 1962 by Princeton University Press. Includes copy of letter with comments from editor, comments from an outside reader, and the minutes of a meeting of the Advisory Committee on the History of Washington.
Grimke, Francis J., Rev.

The pulpit in relation to race revelation., n.p, n.d. At top: The Negro's Progress and Higher Education.
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, No. CCCX LVIII, May, 1879 Vol. LVIII, pp. 802 - [818].

Illustrated, Negro servant ringing dinner bell.
Harrison, Hazel.

Phillis Wheatley Branch Y.W.C.A. presents Hazel Harrison pianist in concert, /program/ Chattanooga, 1947. Purchased from Bookworm and Silverfish, October 31, 1979
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.

Gabriel's defeat. Extracted from an unidentified magazine, 10: 337-345, \186/. Includes a poem: Bethel.
Hutton, Lawrence.

The Negro on the state. Extracted from: Harper's Now Monthly Magazine, 79: 131-145, n.d. Includes names and pictures of white entertainers who performed in black face.
Jones, S.B.

Paul Laurence Dunbar. Written by S.B. Jones for the memorial concert at St. Augustine's School, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Lautier, Louis.

Article from Afro-American, (October 16, 1937 on society in the gay nineties. Donated by Mrs. Annette Eaton.
Leaders of Secession; the Hour and the Man - Lincoln, 1862.

Conversational opinions of the leaders of secession, a monograph. Extracted from an unidentified magazine, 613-623, n.d. With: The Hour and the Man, 623-634 by /C.C. Hazewill/
Lee, Joseph H.

John J. Brice as I knew Him. Recollections of army career officer and music instructor, Joseph Lee about a young army recruit, John Brice, stationed at Camp Furlong in Columbus, New Mexico and later becoming in charge of ROTC at Howard University.