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• Author/Creator:Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967.
  
• Title:Jean Toomer papers, 1898-1963 (inclusive), 1920-1954 (bulk).
  
• Physical Description:40.33 linear feet (95 boxes)
  
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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: JWJ MSS 1
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Notes:In English.
  Gift of Marjorie Content Toomer, 1980. The Toomer Papers were deposited at Fisk University in 1962, were microfilmed by Fisk, were transferred to Yale University, 1985-88, and were processed at Beinecke Library 1987-88.
  
• Organization:Organized into five series: I. Correspondence, 1918-1963. II. Writings, 1920-1954. III. Family Papers, 1898-1954. IV. Related Papers, 1904-1958. V. Printed Works, 1917-1953.
  
• Access and use:This material is open for research. Boxes 75-92: Restricted fragile material. Reference surrogates have been substituted in the main files. For further information consult the appropriate curator.
• Biographical / Historical note:Jean Toomer (1894-1967), leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance, was the author of Cane (1923). Born in Washington, D.C. as Nathan Pinchback Toomer, his name was changed to Eugene as a youth, and he changed his name to Jean at age twenty-five. A writer, teacher, and lecturer, he became a follower of Georges Gurdjieff and later a member of the Society of Friends. He married Marjory Latimer in 1931 and Marjorie Content in 1934.
  
• Summary:The papers contain correspondence, drafts of unpublished books, essays, and other writings, together with personal papers documenting Toomer's life, primarily after his Harlem Renaissance period, and papers on Marjory Latimer Toomer. Correspondents include Charles Dupee, Waldo Front, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Margaret Naumberg, and Russell S. Walcott.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid available.
  
• Cite as:Jean Toomer Papers. James Weldon Johnson Collection of Negro Arts and Letters, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941.
  Baldwin, Louis Fremont.
  Bennett, John G. (John Godolphin), 1897-1974.
  Bliss, Caroline Mirza.
  Bunnell, Elise.
  Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993.
  Campbell, Berta Ochsner.
  Cane, Melville, 1879-1980.
  Cayce, Edgar, 1877-1945.
  Content, Harry, -1941.
  Content, Marjorie, 1895-1984.
  Crane, Hart, 1899-1932.
  Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965.
  Derleth, August, 1909-1971.
  Dupee, Charles.
  Dupee, Gordon.
  Dupee, Katharine Green.
  Dupee, Yvonne.
  Exman, Eugene.
  Fauset, Jessie Redmon.
  Frank, Waldo David, 1889-1967.
  Goldman, Perry M.
  Goldsmith, Lide.
  Green, Mildred O.
  Greene, Felix.
  Grove, Max.
  Grove, Shirley.
  Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch, 1872-1949.
  Hergenham, Mildred.
  Hood, Evelyn.
  Hubben, William, 1895-1974.
  Jones, Rachel Latimer.
  Kelm, Karlton, 1908-1987.
  Kelm, William.
  Lane, Betty.
  Lane, Jeremy.
  Latimer, Clark Watt.
  Latimer, Laurie Bodine.
  Latimer, Margery, 1899-1932.
  Schubart, Dorothy Obermeyer.
  Smith, Harrison.
  Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946.
  Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967.
  Toomer, Nathan.
  Toomer, Nina Pinchback.
  Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990.
  Walcott, Eugenia B.
  Walcott, Russell S.
  Walker, Dorothy.
  Ware, Ruth.
  Wright, Mae.
  Toomer family.
  African American authors.
  African Americans in literature.
  American literature--African American authors.
  Art.
  Authors, American.
  Communication in marriage.
  Dianetics.
  Dreams.
  Education.
  Interracial marriage.
  Psychoanalysis.
  Psychological literature.
  Psychology and religion.
  Race relations.
  Religious literature.
  Social history--20th century.
  Society of Friends.
  Spiritualism.
  Streets--Pennsylvania--Doylestown.
  World War, 1939-1945.
  India--Description and travel.
  New Mexico--Social life and customs.
  
• Genre/Form:Autobiographies (documents)
  Diaries.
  Drawings (visual works)
  Photographs.
  
• Occupation:Authors.
  Spiritualists.