Collection of Countee Cullen and Sydonia Byrd Randolph materials, 1923-1963 : manuscripts and photographs.

Record ID: 
437488
Accession number: 
MA 23626.1-17
Created: 
Indianapolis, Oberlin, New York, and other locations, 1923-1963.
Credit: 
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Twentieth-Century Literature Fund, 2020.
Description: 
17 items ; various sizes
Notes: 

One of the portrait photographs of Sydonia Byrd Randolph (MA 23626.17) is housed separately from the rest of the collection.

Summary: 

A collection of materials related to Countee Cullen and Sydonia Byrd Randolph, including: an autograph manuscript signed of the poem "Advice to a Proud Lady" (MA 23626.1); a letter and an envelope associated with Sydonia Byrd Randolph (MA 23626.2-3); eleven photographs of Sydonia Byrd Randolph and members of her family (MA 23626.4-15); and two portrait photographs of Sydonia Byrd Randolph (MA 23626.16-17).

Provenance: 
Purchased from Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books, September 2020.