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Box 58 Books
F.1 "Black Literature as Racial Retaliation" (unpublished)
Introduction - Tms (car.) 25 pp. lightly revised,
with commentaries by others (10 pp., Ts copy unsigned, TL(copy) M. MacLeod to Yale Reports May 1, 1969.
F. 2 "Four Stations in his O" (unpublished)
- ms. made up of Tms (car.) and photocopies of short stories, i.e.
- When he was free and young and he used to wear silks
- Waiting for the postman to Knock
- Leaving this island place
- Half-Moons on Pinky's Fingernails
- also commentaries on these and other short stories
F. 3 "Letter of appeal" (earlier title "Landing Rites")
F. 4 "Landing Rites" Tms. 183 pp. heavily revised
F. 5 "Letter of Appeal" Tms. 51 pp.
Tms. pages 1-28, 1-12. 6, 52, 103, 131, 139, 184-186, 227,267, 296.
F. 6 -Holograph notes
F. 7 -Clippings
F. 8 "To Have Been" (first unfinished draft of a novel July 1975.) Tms. 62 pp.

Lectures and Speeches
F. 9 "Rich White World -- Poor Non-White World".
- panel discussion, Third International Teach-in, University of Toronto, Oct. 16, 1967. Tms. (car.) 8 pp.

Plays, Scripts
F. 10 "African Literature" (Ontario Dept. of Education)
42 pp. script (cyclostyled) dated April 1, 1969; 15 pp. " photocopy
F. 11 Educational Television Scripts, thoughts and ideas
- notes for 25 min. on film on myths in literature
- "In the Circle of Life" outline, 1968
F. 12 "Harlem 1963" - suggested outline. See also Box 59, F.5.
Tms. (car.) 3 pp.
F. 13 "Harlem in Revolt" (CBC Radio). See also Box 69A for audio reels.
- outline, Tms (car.) 3 pp.
- tape identification - Hms. 6 pp.
Tms (car.) 2pp.
-Harlem the Black Ghetto - Tms (car.) 10 pp. heavily revised
-Harlem Part II - Hol. notes 6 pp.
- " " - "Harlem in Revolt" Tms. 14 pp., revised Tms 16 pp.
F. 13a Harlem Documentary, "Project 64" for the Consolidated Radio Network, mimeo, 1p. Handwritten notes, 17pp.
F. 14 "Islands in the Sunlight"
-nine outlines for half-hour shows for CBC TV by A. Clarke and Vincent Vaitiekunas Tms. (car. 5 pp.
F. 15 "The long march of British Guiana" [1965] (CBC Radio); Tms. (car.) 22 pp.
F. 16 "Music out of the dump yards" (television)
outline of proposed programme by A. Clarke and Vaitiekunas)
-Tms (car.) 2 pp.
-Outline Part I Tms (car.) 4 pp.
- " Part II Tms (car) 3 pp.
F. 17 "Malcolm X" (radio script)
-Tms. 15 pp. lightly revised
F. 18 "Salutation to the Dawn" (one-act play)
-1st draft Tms (car.) 26 pp.

Box 59
F. 1 Suggested outline for a half-hour film
-Tms (car.) 8 pp. lightly revised
F. 2 "Take Thirty" - suggested outlines for 3 programmes
-Tms (car.) 5 pp.
F. 3 "Tracks" (television)
-script Tms. 18 pp.
F. 4 "Underground Railroad" (radio)
-script - Tms 25 pp. (cut and taped version)
F. 5 "Viewpoint" (CBC-TV)
-Harlem in Revolt - Tms. 8 pp. (2 copies)
-The Black West Indian Immigrant as a Canadian Citizen - Tms. 15 pp.
-Malcolm X - Tms (car.) 4 pp.
-The Political Outsiders, March 30, 1963 - Tms. 9 pp.
F. 6 "What Happened?" (film script 1971)
-Tms. 47 pp.
F. 7 "Witchcraft" (CBC-TV)
outline for proposed programme by A. Clarke and V. Vaitiekunas
-Tms (car.) 3 pp. (2 copies)
F. 8 Women in Exile" (a play in one act.)
-Tms. 19 pp. revised
-Tms. 16 pp. (stage play)
-Tms. (radio play) 35 pp.
-Hms. 4 pp.
-Tms. 19 pp. lightly revised
F. 9 "Women of Loneliness" (radio documentary)
-outline Tms. 4 pp., Tms (car.) 4 pp.
F. 10 "The Wrong Man" (CBC-TV series The Collaborators)
-Tms 90 pp. + outline

F. 11 Poetry - 8 pp.

Short Stories, Articles and Reviews
F. 12 "Across the River" Tms 3 pp.
F. 13 "The Barbados Senior Elections Examinations" ss.
-Tms 10 pp.
F. 14 "Berries Going Fall" (short story)
-Tms, revised, 13 pp.
-Tms 9 pp.
-Tms 12 pp. revised (Dec. 22, 1980)
"Summing-up under the Berries" Tms 9 pp. revised
F. 15 "Black Power" (article)
-Tms (car) 15 pp. (revised)
F. 16 Mr. Len Braithwaite - outline of proposed story.
-Tms 2 pp.
F. 17 "Breach" (short story)
-Hms. 8 pp.
F. 18 "Carmichael" (interview)
-Tms. + 2 carbons 11 pp.
F. 19 "The Cultural-Political Origins of the Current Black Student Anti-Intellectualism on American Campuses.
-Tms (car.) 2 pp. ( 2 copies)
F. 20 "Did Manningheim say "all"?" (article 1983)
-Tms (photocopy) 6 pp.
F 21 "From Civil Rights to Black Liberation" (article)
-Tms (car.) 9 pp.
F. 22 "Glynoshi Murrayiyama!" (short story)
-Tms. 4 pp. (unfinished)
F. 23 "God and Mammon at Yale" (article)
-Tms. 4 pp. + Tms (car.) 4 pp.
F. 24 "If um was we" (article)
-Tms. 6 pp.
F. 25 "The Indian who was in his tower" (story)
-Tms. 7 pp.
F. 26 "It is not a commendable practice..." (article)
-Tms. 12 pp.
F. 27 "Dr. Martin Luther King" (article)
-Tms. 11 pp., (heavily revised)
F. 28 "The Man of Words" (short story)
-Tms. 27 pp., heavily revised at beginning

Box 60
F. 1 The Nation
- 1 file of articles in ts. form + clippings (1980)
F. 2 "The Negro in Canada" (article)
-Tms. 11 pp.
F. 3 "A Next Man" (short story)
-Tms. 8 pp.
-another version "When the rent due" tms. 4 pp.
F. 4 "A Pretty Sentence" (article)
-Tms. 4 pp. of drafts
F. 5 "These speak for Black America and then America"
-file of ms. on Malcolm X, Dr. Joseph P. King, Roy Inniss, Stokely Carmichael, Leroi Jones
-Tms + Tms (car.)
F. 6 "Wha' this IMF mean ?" (article)
-Hms. 8 pp.
F. 7 Dr. Nathan Wright (interview) Tms + Tms (car.) 8 pp.
F. 8 Outlines for work in progress
-sheets of partial stories, notes, unidentified pages

Research Files
F. 9 "The Cheques Affair"
-mss. notes on Government-in-Exile, August 1976, 14 pp, 3 pp.
-Briefing notes 3 September 1976
F. 10 Jonestown, 1978 -clippings
F. 11 Quebec clippings
F. 12 Clippings on a variety of topics

Box 61
F.1 "A Reply to Sidney Katz," 9 May 1979, 12 pp., ts.
F.2 Speech notes
F.3 Syllabus of "College Seminar to be Given by Austin Clarke," ts., 4 pp.
F.4 Ts. fragments of various writings
F.5 Notes
F.6 Proposal by Austin Clarke Associates, Democratic Labour Party, 1982
F. 7 Appointment diaries
-1974 blue cover
-1975 red cover
F.8 Telephone Message book
F.9 Photographs
F.10-2 Invitations
F.13 Notices of Speeches

Box 62
Personal Documents
F.1 Curriculum Vitae
F.2 Certificates
F.3 Financial documents
F.4 Nomination papers
F.5 Land deed, release
F.6 Appointment to Rhode Island School of Design
F.7 Promotional tour schedule, Ottawa, 25 March

Interviews of Clarke
F.8 By Robert Fulford, mimeo, 1964
F.9 By Terrace Craig, photocopy of ts.
F.10 By Ken Thomas, news clipping
F.11 Questions, no author

Essays about Clarke
F.12 By Patrick Hinds, ts.
F.13 By Lloyd W. Brown, photocopies and offprints
F.14 Student essays

Works by Others
F.15-7 Works by others
F.18 Blurbs about Clarke's books

Box 63
News clippings:
F.1 Press mentions of Clarke
F.2 Reviews of Clarke's books
F.3 Articles by Clarke in The Nation, 1979-1980
F.4 Articles by Clarke in The Nation, 1992
F.5 Serialization of Growing up Stupid in The Nation, 1980
F.6 Articles by Clarke in The Pelican, 1981-1983

Box 64
F.1 Malcolm X assassination, 1965
Two scrapbooks with news clippings pasted in.

Box 65
Correspondence:
F.1 A
F.2 Anansi, House of
F.3 Ronald G. Atkey
F.4 Melvin L. Atwell
F.5 B
F.6 Barbados, various organizations
F.7 Errol Barrow
F.8 Ed Beckels
F.9 Black Artist in the Canadain Milieu Conference
F.10 Desmond Bourne
F.11 Neville W. Boxill
F.12 Dionne Brand
F.13 Harold Brewster
F.14 British High Commission/Consulate
F.15 Lloyd Brown
F.16 C
F.17 Canada Council
F.18 Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
F.19 Jan Carew
F.20 Casa de las Americas
F.21 Janet Campbell
F.22 Betty Clarke (wife)
F.23 Clarke Associates
F.24 Combermere School
F.25 Terry Craig
F.26 Cecil Cummins

Box 66
F.1 D
F.2 Cyril Dabydeen
F.3 Daryl C. Dance
F.4 Davis, Lords Barristers
F.5 William G. Davis
F.6 Stan Dragland
F.7 E
F.8 Lyle Estill
F.9 F
F.10 Nick Fields
F.11 G
F.12 General Publishing
F.13 Rudy Gibbons
F.14 Graeme Gibson
F.15 Victor Gollancz Ltd. (David Burnett)
F.16 Richard Gool
F.17 H
F.18 John Harvard
F.19 Ralph Hylton
F.20 I
F.21 J
F.22 K
F.23 Eric Kirton
F.24 V. Khaner
F.25 L
F.26 Little, Brown and Company
F.27 Clifton Luke
F.28 Dennis Luke
F.29 Douglas Luke, Sr.; Douglas Luke, Jr.
F.30 Gladys Clarke Luke (mother); F.H. Luke (step-father), and other family members
F.31 Mphahlele K. Lukman

Box 67
F.1 M
F.2 R.G. Mandeville and Co.
F.3 McClelland and Stewart Ltd.
F.4 Roy McMurtry
F.5 Peter Morgan
F.6 N
F.7 The Nation (Harold Hoyt, et al)
F.8 O
F.9 Harold Ober Associateas
F.10 Stan Obodiac
F.11 Ontario Welfare Council
F.12 P
F.13 Alfred Pragnell
F.14 R
F.15 S
F.16 Saturday Night
F.17 Seneca College
F.18 Stage One Theatre (Cynthia Wilson)

Box 68
F.1 T
F.2 June Todd
F.3 Toronto Life
F.4 Toronto Public Library
F.5 Toronto Star
F.6 Toronto, University of
F.7 U
F.8 W
F.9 Waldo E. Waldon-Ramsey
F.10 Eureton Weekes
F.11 Western Ontario, University of
F.12 O.A. ("Jeff") Wiltshire
F.13 Robin Winks
F.14 Writers' Union
F.15 Y, Z
F.16 Unidentified, first names, illegible

Audio reels: (See also audio reels in the first accrual)
Box 69A
Don Austin, painter and musician: 2 reels
Stokley Carmichael, speech at McGill University, not of broadcast quality "but all interesting": 1 reel
Canadian Mood, Austin Clarke in Halifax: 6 reels
Harlem In Revolt, broadcast on CBC radio, 27 October and 3 November 1963; 2 reels

Box 69B
Ideas, William Sloane Coffin, Jr.: 2 reels
Concern, Bruce St. John: 2 reels
Copy of New Action set ad: 1 reel

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