DOVER, CEDRIC.
Cedric Dover papers, 1881-1962

Emory University

Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

Atlanta, GA 30322

404-727-6887

marbl@emory.edu

Permanent link: http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8z7gv

Descriptive Summary

Creator:Dover, Cedric.
Title: Cedric Dover papers, 1881-1962
Call Number:Manuscript Collection No. 1108
Extent:3.75 linear ft. (8 boxes), 2 oversized papers (OP), and 12 bound volumes (BV)
Abstract:Papers of Cedric Dover, Anglo-Indian author of American Negro Art, including correspondence, printed material, photographs, and writings by Dover and others.
Language:Materials entirely in English.

Administrative Information

Restrictions on Access

Unrestricted access.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

All requests subject to limitations noted in departmental policies on reproduction.

Related Materials in This Repository

In Emory's holdings are books formerly owned by Cedric Dover. These materials may be located in the Emory University online catalog by searching for: Dover, Cedric, former owner. Many of these books include extensive manuscript notes about the book or its author, written by Dover himself. There are also many items tipped into the books, including signed photographs and letters.

Source

Gift, 2009.

Citation

[after identification of item(s)], Cedric Dover papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.

Processing

Michael Hessel-Mial, Will Love and Sarah Quigley, 2012.

Collection Description

Biographical Note

Cedric Dover was born in Calcutta, India on April 11, 1904 to parents of mixed European and Indian descent. Dover described himself as Eurasian, a term he preferred to "Anglo-Indian." After attending St. Xavier's and St. Joseph's Colleges in Calcutta, Dover worked as an entomologist with the Zoological Survey of India. In the late 1920s Dover became increasingly interested in sociology and anthropology, specifically race and race relations in Europe, India and the United States. Notable works published by Dover on these subjects include Half-Caste (1937), Know This of Race (1939) and Hell in the Sunshine (1943). In 1947, Dover served as a visiting lecturer in anthropology at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and then spent a year in New York City lecturing in race relations at the New School of Social Research. A long standing interest in African American art prompted the publication of American Negro Art in 1960. Dover died on December 9, 1962.

Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of the papers of Cedric Dover from 1881-1962, and includes correspondence, writings by Dover and others, printed material, and photographs. The bulk of the correspondence concerns the publication of American Negro Art and covers the years 1959-1960. Writings include a manuscript draft of Dover's first, but unpublished, book on butterflies, drafts of biographical sketches of artists under consideration for inclusion in American Negro Art and several drafts of articles on race and sociology.

The printed material consists primarily of journals, reprints of articles, and other works written by Dover throughout his career, in addition to material related to Fisk University and African American art in the mid-twentieth century. Printed material also includes twelve bound volumes of articles and clippings compiled by Dover. These contain both reprints of articles written by Dover and articles written by other authors. Many volumes contain scientific articles, though others cover topics ranging from literature to politics and philosophy. Several of these volumes have titles, which were supplied by Dover and describe the subject contents of the volumes.

Photographs include images of prominent African American intellectuals and artists, including Langston Hughes, Charles S. Johnson (president of Fisk University), W.E.B. Du Bois, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Owen Dodson, Arna Bontemps, and others.

Arrangement Note

Arranged by record type.

Container List

General correspondence
Box Folder Content
1 1 General correspondence, 1950-1962
Writings by Dover: American Negro Art
1 2 Correspondence, A-B, 1959-1960
1 3 Correspondence, C-E, 1959-1960
1 4 Correspondence, F-H, 1959-1960
1 5 Correspondence, I-L, 1959-1960
1 6 Correspondence, M-O, 1959-1960
2 1 Correspondence, P-S, 1959-1960
2 2 Correspondence, T-Z, 1959-1960
2 3 Biographies, A-G, no date
2 4 Biographies, H-P, no date
2 5 Biographies, R-Y, no date
2 6 Color plate proofs, no date
2 7 Index, page proof, no date
2 8 Promotional card, 1960 [with image of Minority Man, sculpture by Ed Wilson]
2 9 Promotional pamphlet, no date
Writings by Dover: Scientific
3 1 "An Achievement in Indian Forest Entomology," manuscript, circa 1931 [See also: "Forest Entomology in India and its Economic Importance," and "Note for the Mexican Minister"]
3 2 The Common Butterflies of India, black and white figure plates with annotations, circa 1921
3 3 The Common Butterflies of India, color plate samples, circa 1921
3 4 The Common Butterflies of India, instructions to printer, circa 1921
3 5 The Common Butterflies of India, manuscript, 1921 [with 1949 note describing the cancellation of its publication by Calcutta University Press]
3 6 "Forest Entomology in India and its Economic Importance," manuscript, circa 1931 [See also: "An Achievement in Indian Forest Entomology," "Note for the Mexican Minister"]
3 7 Forest entomology reference articles, 1921-1931
3 8 Forest entomology reference notes, 1921-1931
3 9 "Note for the Mexican Minister," typescript, circa 1931 [see also: "An Achievement in Indian Forest Entomology," and "Forest Entomology in India and its Economic Importance"]
3 10 A Preliminary Survey of Eugenic Problems and Research in India, with Mercia Haynes-Wood, bound typescript, 1932 [paper presented at Third International Congress of Eugenics]
Writings by Dover: General
3 11 "Analysis of Wootton," manuscript essay, no date
3 12 Biographical entry, typescript, for Author's and Writer's Who's Who, no date
3 13 "Biographical notes," typescript, no date
3 14 "Brahma," Ralph Waldo Emerson, extract, planned as epigraph to unidentified book manuscript, no date
3 15 "The Cedric Dover Collection," typescript summary of contents of Dover's library, no date
3 16 "'Dover's Cream' and Other Mosquito Repellants," manufacturing and marketing proposal, no date
3 17 I Keep and Pass, book-length manuscript, no date
3 18 "The Importance of Inviting an Indian Biologist to the Communist Countries," typescript letter of recommendation, May 1952
3 19 "The Minority Problem," manuscript essay, no date
3 20 "Moods of Yesterday," typescript essay, no date
3 21 Notes, 1940-1949
3 22 "Personal Statement and Outlines of Four Books by Cedric Dover," typescript, no date
3 23 "Project for a Basic Book of Intergroup Studies," typescript summary of book project, no date
3 24 "Race of Man," typescript essay, 1950
3 25 "What is a Race Riot?," typescript essay, circa, 1959
3 26 "Why I Protest," typescript, no date
Writings by others
3 27 Biggers, John T., Joseph L. Mack, and Carroll H. Simms, Man and the World of Science, typescript research proposal, 1957
3 28 Cherry, Graham, A Letter from the Arakan, self-published, 1954
3 29 Hewett, Peter, Bridge Over Chaos, typescript, circa 1947 [includes introduction by Cedric Dover]
4 1 Hewett, R.P., "The Purpose of East Indian, West Indian (by Cedric Dover and Claude McKay)," typescript book review, 1950s
4 2 Hughes, Langston, "Biographical Information," typescript, circa 1950
4 3 Hughes, Langston, Gypsy Ballads, typescript translation of poetry by Federico Garcia Lorca, 1945 [inscribed to Dover]
4 4 Memorandum, untitled, no date [about racial segregation in Pretoria, South Africa]
4 5 "Negroes Enter Mainstream of American Art," no date
4 6 Walker, George, "It Still Remains," typescript poem, 1951 [variant title: "Englishman of the '50s"]
Printed material: By or about Dover
4 7 Dover, Cedric, "American Negro Art," American Review reprint, Bologna, 1961
4 8 Dover, Cedric, "American Negro Art," letter to the editor, The Crisis, New York, June-July 1959
4 9 Dover, Cedric, "Ann Was an Integrated Person," Nothing is Lost: Ann Lindsay, 1914-1954, The Ready Press, London, 1954
4 10 Dover, Cedric, "Asian Journey," Trees reprint, Dorchester, April 1955
4 11 Dover, Cedric, "Aublet: The First Secular Abolitionist," Phylon reprint, Atlanta, 1956
4 12 Dover, Cedric, "The Black Knight: Part I," Phylon reprint, Atlanta, 1954
4 13 Dover, Cedric, "The Black Knight: Part II," Phylon reprint, Atlanta, 1954
4 14 Dover, Cedric, "Contemptible," letter to the editor, Daily Worker, New York, May 3, 1956
4 15 Dover, Cedric, "Count Basie and His Orchestra," The Times, London, April 3, 1957
4 16 Dover, Cedric, "The Cultural Significance of Col. James Skinner," Calcutta Review reprint, Calcutta, January 1955
4 17 Dover, Cedric, "Entomological Investigation on the Spike Disease of Sandal," with M. Apanna, The Indian Forest Records Entomology Series, Delhi, May 1934
4 18 Dover, Cedric, "A General Note on Contraceptive Methods," Indian Medical World reprint, New Delhi, May 1930
4 19 Dover, Cedric, "In Support of Zeuner: The Case of the Faroe Mouse," Bullletin No. VII: Symposium on Organic Evolution reprint, New Delhi, no date
4 20 Dover, Cedric, "Intergroup Relations and the Coloured World," Asia: Asian Quarterly of Culture and Synthesis, Imprimerie D'Extrême-Orient, Saigon, September 1952
4 21 Dover, Cedric, "Looking Forward From Yesterday," Wilson Library Bulletin, H.W. Wilson Company, New York, February 1949
4 22 Dover, Cedric, "Mrs. Ursula Grant Duff," The Times, London, January 21, 1959
4 23 Dover, Cedric, "The Need for Co-Ordination," unidentified publication, August 20, 1937
4 24 Dover, Cedric, "Post-Geneva China," letter to the editor, Times of India, Bombay, December 11, 1954
4 25 Dover, Cedric, "Racialism and Peace," The Monthly Record, South Place Ethical Society, London, May 1956
4 26 Dover, Cedric, "The Racial Philosophy of Jehuda Halevi," Phylon reprint, Atlanta, 1952
4 27 Dover, Cedric, "Report on the South," review of South of Freedom by Carl T. Rowan, Phylon reprint, Atlanta, 1952
4 28 Dover, Cedric, "The Significance of the Cell Surface," Bulletin No. VII: Symposium on Organic Evolution reprint, New Delhi, no date
4 29 Dover, Cedric, "Terrick Hamilton: A Forgotten Orientalist," Calcutta Review reprint, Calcutta, December 1954
4 30 Dover, Cedric, "Trams in Calcutta," United Asia, no date
4 31 Various authors, articles about Dover, 1937-1962
4 32 Various authors, programs and pamphlets about Dover, 1948 and no date
Printed material: General
4 33 The American Book Collector, Volume IX, Number 8, Chicago, April 1959
4 34 American Society of African Culture, newsletter, Volume V, Number 3, New York, 1962
4 35 Anglo-Indian and Domiciled European Association, memorandum, London, 1933
4 36 Anglo-Indian Association, "The Cause of the Domiciled Community of India as Presented by the Anglo-Indian Association, London, to the Indian Statutory Commission," memorandum, London, 1922
4 37 Art in America, Pond-Ekberg Company, Springfield, Massachusetts, October 1951
4 38 The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, flyer for Negro History Week, 1948
5 1 Atlanta University, programs, 1953-1959
5 2 Ayer Company, The Black Experience: More than 700 Books Published between 1729-1982, no date
5 3 Barnett Aden Gallery, programs, 1947-1959
5 4 Bearden, Romare, program for exhibition at Michael Warren Gallery, New York, 1960
5 5 Bhandari, S.K., Cuba--Its Revolution, National Publications Bureau, New Delhi, 1960
5 6 Biggers, John Thomas, "The Negro Woman in American Life and Education," program and dissertation abstract related to mural unveiling, 1953-1954
5 7 British Vigilance Association, 68th Annual Report Since the Foundation of the National Vigilance Association in 1885, London, 1954
5 8 Chicago Public Library, Art Department, Understanding Art, pamphlet, no date
5 9 Cincinnati Art Museum, flyer for Lehman Collection, 1959
5 10 Clippings, general, 1881-1939
5 11 Clippings, general, 1940s-1954
5 12 Clippings, general, 1955-1962
5 13 Clippings, general, no date
5 14 Cole, Natalie Robinson, promotional flyer, no date
5 15 Collectors of American Art, Inc., no date
5 16 Conference on Education and Race Relations, Schools Challenged by South's Peculiar Problems, Atlanta, circa 1938
5 17 Cotton Club, Program: World's Fair Edition, 1939
5 18 Creative Artists Guild, flyer, 1960
5 19 Crichlow, Ernest, program for exhibition at ACA Gallery, New York, 1960
5 20 Curtis, John, editor, Your National Capital: Seventy-Fifth Congress, Washington, D.C., 1937
5 21 Dillard University, exhibit programs, 1936-1942
5 22 Dimitrov, Georgi, Laski's Mistake, Communist Party of Great Britain, London, 1946
5 23 Douglas, Aaron, program for mural dedication ceremony at New York Public Library, 135th Street Branch, 1950
5 24 Evans, Stanley, Christians and Communists, Magnificat Publications, London, 1949
5 25 Fascist War on Women: Facts from Italian Gaols, Martin Lawrence (publisher), London, no date
5 26 Fisk University, general printed material, 1947-1954
5 27 Fisk University, general printed material, no date
5 28 Fisk University, Institute of Race Relations publications, 1944-1954
5 29 Fisk University, pamphlets, 1947-1954
6 1 Fisk University, programs, 1947-1958
6 2 Fisk University, published writings by President Charles S. Johnson, 1949 and no date
6 3 Hardison, Inge, flyer, no date
6 4 The Harlem Community Art Centre, information pamphlet, no date
6 5 Harmon Foundation, William H. Johnson: An Artist of the World Scene, pamphlet, 1956
6 6 Hartwick Review, Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 1967
6 7 Howard, Humbert, program for exhibition at Newman Contemporary Art Gallery, Philadelphia, 1960
6 8 Howard University, art exhibition programs, 1950-1958
6 9 Howard University, promotional postcards, no date
6 10 Hughes, Emrys, Iron Hand and Wooden Head: An Indictment of Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, Peace News, London, 1953
6 11 International Business Machines Corporation, Fine Arts Department, program for art exhibition, 1950
6 12 Jackman, Ivie, program for exhibition at Market Place Gallery, New York, 1960
6 13 Johnson, Charles S. and Brooks Hays, What Effect Do Our Race Relations Have On Our Foreign Policy?, The Town Hall, New York, 1950
6 14 Kahn, Albert, Agents of Peace, The Hour, circa 1951
6 15 Lee-Smith, Hughie, program for exhibition at Janet Nessler Gallery, New York, 1960
6 16 National Conference of Artists, newsletter, Volume 1, Number 4, Tuskeegee, Alabama, September 1960
6 17 Owen, William, Anarchism Versus Socialism, Freedom Press, London, 1922
6 18 Phoenix Theatre, program for production of Black Nativity, 1962
6 19 Pippen, Horace, program for exhibition at Carlen Galleries, New York, 1940
6 20 Porter, James A., program for exhibition at Dupont Theatre Art Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1949
6 21 Programs and Lectures, Inc., flyer, 1948
6 22 The Pyramid Club, catalogue for Second Annual Fall Review of Paintings and Sculpture, 1956
6 23 Redman, Joseph, The Communist Party and the Labour Left 1925-1929, Reasoner Pamphlets, Hull, England, circa 1957
6 24 Robert Ezra Park, funeral program, 1944
6 25 Robson, R.W., Communism: An Outline for Everyone, The Communist Party of Great Britain, London, 1942
6 26 Robson, R.W., Essentials of Communist Theory, Communist Party of Great Britain, London, 1944
6 27 Rochester, Anna, Wall Street, International Pamphlets, New York, 1932
6 28 Royal Albert Hall, program for concert by Mahalia Jackson, 1961
6 29 Russell, Bertrand, Why I am Not a Christian, The Thinker's Library, London, 1928
6 30 Southside Community Arts Center, programs, Chicago, 1941
6 31 Spelman College, art exhibition program, 1959
6 32 Talladega College Art Gallery, programs, 1957
6 33 Texas Centennial Exposition, program, 1939
6 34 Various authors, articles collected during Dover's trip to China, 1955
6 35 Verdura Jewellery, invitation, 1999
6 36 Ward Eggleston Galleries, invitation to preview gallery opening, 1957
6 37 Washington, James, Jr. and Luciano Spazzali, program for exhibition at Feingarten Galleries, San Francisco, no date
6 38 Wells, James Lesesne, invitation to exhibition at Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1948
6 39 White, Charles, exhibition programs, 1943-1953
6 40 Whitney, John Hay, The Last Question, Fisk University, Nashville, 1953
6 41 Yale University, program for the opening of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters, 1950
Printed material: Bound volumes
BV1 Bound collection of articles: Annandale, Nelson, "Zoological Addresses--N. Annandale," 1922-1924
BV2 Bound collection of articles: Darbashire, A.D., C. Gordon Hewitt, H.C. Chadwick and Sidney Hickson, 1903-1906
BV3 Bound collection of articles: Dover, Cedric, 1921-1928 [includes articles co-written with Mercia Haynes-Wood and S. Ribeiro]
BV4 Bound collection of articles: Dover, Cedric, 1929-1955 [includes additional articles by other authors]
BV5 Bound collection of articles: Dover, Cedric, "Dover--Cicindelidae," 1928 [includes articles co-written with Mercia Haynes-Wood]
BV6 Bound collection of articles: Dover, Cedric, "Dover et al.--Malayan Aquatic Biology," 1922-1951
BV7 Bound collection of articles: Dover, Cedric, on literature and philosophy, 1950-1954 [includes article co-written with Bernard Fisher]
BV8 Bound collection of articles: Dover, Cedric, "Papers on Pitcher--Plants," 1910-1928 [includes additional articles by other authors]
BV9 Bound collection of periodicals: Dover, Cedric, editor, 1927
BV10 Bound collection of publications: Fisk University Institute on Race Relations, 1947-1948
BV11 Bound collection of articles: "Negroes Studies," 1932-1951
7 1 Scrapbook: 1929-1930 [contains clippings of published writings by Dover]
BV12 Scrapbook: "Negroana: Cuttings," 1937-1951 [contains articles on African-American culture]
Photographs of Dover
7 2 Dover, Cedric, 1948 [Photographer: Carl Van Vechten]
7 3 Dover, Cedric and John Work, circa 1947
7 4 Dover, Cedric Arna Bontemps, and Robert E. Hayden, Chicago Tribune, 1947 [Photographer: Russell Ham],
7 5 Dover, Cedric, Sterling Brown, Daisy Turnbull Brown, and Owen Dodson, [Photographer: Fred Harris], 1948
7 6 Dover, Cedric, Trip to Tuskegee, circa 1938
Photographs of others
7 7 Coomaraswamy, Ananda, no date
7 8 DePriest, Oscar, 1945
7 9 Du Bois, W.E.B., no date
OP1 Du Bois, W.E.B., dinner on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, Hotel Roosevelt, New York City, February 23, 1948
7 10 Fisk University graduation, no date
7 11 Hughes, Langston, no date [Photographer: Gordon Parks]
7 12 Hughes, Langston, signing autographs for children, circa 1948
7 13 Hughes, Langston and Charles S. Johnson, no date
7 14 Hurston, Zora Neale, 1937
7 15 Ivy, James, no date
7 16 Jackman, Harold, 1948
7 17 Johnson, Charles S. and Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, 1951
7 18 Johnson, James S. and Arthur Spingarn, no date
7 19 Jones, Eugene Kinckle, 1938
7 20 Just, Ernest E., 1948 [Photographer: Robert McNeill]
7 21 Pankey, Aubrey, 1951
7 22 Pankey, Aubrey, 1954
7 23 Porter, James A., 1938 [Photographer: Scurlock]
OP2 Prophet, Nancy Elizabeth, no date
7 24 Reid, Ira de Augustine, 1947 [Photographer: James L. Allen]
7 25 Unidentified man writing and woman typing, no date
7 26 Unidentified woman and young girl at Fisk University, circa 1947
7 27 Valis, Chandra, no date
7 28 White, Charles W., 1959 [Photographer: Murray Naidich],
Photographs of art work
7 29 29 slides of photographed art work, no date
7 30 Barthe, Richmond, Shoe Shine, American Negro Exposition, Chicago, 1940
7 31 Chase, Barbara, San Sebastian, 1958 [Collector: Jim Jarrett]
7 32 Cleveland, Ladybird, Eartha Kitt, 1954 [Photographer: Carl Van Vechten]
7 33 Douglas, Aaron, Charles D. Johson, no date [Photographer: Frank O. Roberts]
7 34 Douglas, Aaron, The Memorial Chapel (Transparency), no date
7 35 Hollingsworth, Alvin, Group, no date [Photographer: Mike Hunter]
7 36 Hooks, Earl, Vase, no date
7 37 Johnson, Sargent, Negro Woman, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1936
7 38 Jones, Lois Mailou, Ville D'Houdain, 1948 [Photographer: Marc Vaux]
7 39 Lawrence, Jacob, John Brown, The Detroit Institute of Arts, no date
7 40 Lee-Smith, Hughie, Two Figures, James Hemler Gallery, no date
7 41 Paine of Islington, Mr. Ira Aldridge as Aaron, no date
7 42 Pippin, Horace, Milkman of Goshen, New York, Carnegie Institute, 1945
7 43 Robinson, John N., Spring Landscape, no date
7 44 Sculpture from Atlanta University, 1956 [Photographer: Reeves Studio]
7 45 Simpson, Merton, Helen Study, 1950 [Photographer: William Gilabert]
7 46 Tanner, Henry Ossawa, The Two Disciples at the Tomb, The Art Institute of Chicago, no date
7 47 Turner, Roland, Together, Artists Guild, no date
7 48 Unidentified painting of three African American children (negative), no date
7 49 Unidentified painting of young African American girl, no date
7 50 Unidentified painting of young woman (negative), no date
7 51 White, Charles W., 14 paintings, 1956
7 52 Wilson, Ed N., Minority Man, no date
Photographs taken by Dover of trip to Asia
8 1 Buildings and historical sites, no date
8 2 Landscapes, no date
8 3 People, no date [1 of 3]
8 4 People, no date [2 of 3]
8 5 People, no date [3 of 3]
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