The papers contains materials documenting the life of Arna Bontemps, including Series I, Correspondence , and Series II, Writings .
The materials are open for research.
The Arna Bontemps Collection is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
The Arna Bontemps Collection contains items presented to the James Weldon Johnson Collection by Mr. Bontemps.
4 Linear Feet (6 boxes)
English
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.bontemps
The Arna Bontemps Collections contains writings and correspondence presented to the James Weldon Johnson Collection by Mr. Bontemps.
Arna Bontemps was a teacher and writer whose novel God Sends Sunday appeared at the end of the Harlem Renaissance in 1931. He continued writing and editing anthologies and served as librarian at Fisk University.
This finding aid was produced from a previously existing manuscripts inventory. All pertinent information has been retained. Former call number: JWJ MSS Small Collections.
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Arna Bontemps Collection. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Arna Bontemps Collection. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/982 Accessed June 05, 2024.