Draft of Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry: A Critical History, Chapter V. A Long Ways from Home with an overview and several inserts. Pages numbers begin to repeat after p. 74.

Draft of partial manuscript of Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry: A Critical History, p. 11-43 with two additions to page 17 and one unnumbered page

Draft of Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry: A Critical History, Chapter III. African Voice in Ellipse, p. 1-49 with an insert for p. 38, an insert for p. 46, and an unnumbered page

Draft of Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry: A Critical History, B. Griefs of Joy: The Poetry of Wings, p. 1-39 with additional page 1a.

Draft of Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry: A Critical History, Chapter II. The Black & Unknown Bards, with addenda note 4 on page 7, an inserted page after page 12, and an insert for seculars after page 13.

Draft of Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry: A Critical History, Preface with a page 1 handwritten insert.

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