W.E.B. Du Bois Papers

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Abstract

The earliest evidence in the collection of Du Bois as a novelist is the manuscript and plot outline of A Fellow of Harvard (1892), written when Du Bois was just twenty-four, and the latest consist of fragments and notes concerning his trilogy, The Black Flame and Worlds of Color, both dating from 1961.

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English

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W.E.B. Du Bois Papers: Series 11. Novels, 1892-1961
1.25 linear feet

Call no.: MS 312

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W.E.B. Du Bois, 1907.

Inventory of Collection

Series 11. Novels	1892-1961

Du Bois, W. E. B., Bethesda A. M. E.: A Romance of Negro Religion	ca.1928-29	Reel 87: 541
Chapters III-X: pp. 7-19, 1-5, 1-24, 1-2 Outline and chapters 1-111, "Second Edition, October 10, 1928:" pp. 1-31 "Edition of September l9, 1929:" pp. 1-15 Four chapters: pp. 1-10, 1-13, 1-20, 1-10 Manuscript: pp. 1-20, 1-3 Fragments and notes Notes on Mobile, Alabama
Du Bois, W. E. B., The Black Flame: A Trilogy	1957, 1959, 1961	Reel 87: 702
Fragments and notes concerning the trilogy
Du Bois, W. E. B., Dark Princess	1928	Reel 87: 706
Fragments
Du Bois, W. E. B., A Fellow of Harvard	1892	Reel 87: 756
Manuscript and plot outline
Du Bois, W. E. B., The Guilt of God	n.d.	Reel 87: 789
Summary and notes for proposed novel
Du Bois, W. E. B., Mansart Builds A School	1959	Reel 87: 601
Notes concerning the publication of the novel
Du Bois, W. E. B., The Ordeal of Mansart	1957	Reel 87: 604
Fragments
Du Bois, W. E. B., The Quest of the Silver Fleece	1911	Reel 87: 810
Fragments
Du Bois, W. E. B., Scorn: A Romance	ca.1905	Reel 87: 814
Book 1: pp. 1-105 Book 2: pp. 106-203 Book 3: pp. 204-304 Other drafts: Book 1: pp. 1-6, 13-48 Book 2: pp. 96-98, 100-141, (2 unnumbered pages) Book 2: various paginations Book 3: pp. 1-147 Book 3: pp. 205-303 Fragments and notes
Du Bois, W. E. B., The Wings of Atalanta	1930s	Reel 87: 1249
Book 1: pp. 1-21 Book 2: pp. 1-12 Book 3: pp. 1-21 Book 3: pp. 1-23, 35, 40-42, 47-58 Another draft: pp. 1-7, 19-20, 22-24 Another draft?: pp. 1-12 Another draft: pp. 1-23, 25-26, 36 Fragments
Du Bois, W. E. B., Worlds of Color	1961	Reel 87: 1339
Notes
Du Bois, W. E. B., Unidentified novel		Reel 87: 1339
Incomplete
Du Bois, W. E. B., Fiction fragments and notes		Reel 87: 1339

Provenance

Acquired from Shirley Graham Du Bois, 1973

Cite as: W.E.B. Du Bois Papers (MS 312). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.