Series 3
Notebooks, circa
1972-1991
Boxes 25 - 28
Scope and Content Note
The notebooks in the Raymond Andrews Papers often contain early versions of Andrews’ novels and other writings as well as drafts of letters and other miscellaneous notes. These notebooks often include more than one work. When dates are present in a notebook, they are given in the following description. The notebooks are arranged in approximate chronological order.
| Box | Folder | Content |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | 1 | Appalachee Red manuscript, ca 1972-1973 |
| 25 | 2 | Appalachee Red manuscript, ca 1973 |
| 25 | 3 | Appalachee Red manuscript, ca 1973-1975; various untitled fictional writings |
| 25 | 4 | Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee manuscript |
| 25 | 5 | Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee manuscript |
| 26 | 1 | Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee and Baby Sweet's manuscripts; other writings; draft correspondence; ca 1979 |
| 26 | 2 | Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee, Baby Sweet's and 99 Years and a Dark Day [unpublished novel] manuscripts; draft correspondence; variously dated 1980, 1985, 1989 |
| 26 | 3 | Notes, brief fictional sketches, ca 1982 [mostly empty] |
| 26 | 4 | 99 Years and a Dark Day manuscript; autobiographical writings; draft correspondence; ca 1982-1984 |
| 26 | 5 | 99 Years and a Dark Day manuscript; autobiographical writings; draft correspondence; ca 1982-1984 |
| 26 | 6 | 99 Years and a Dark Day and Last Radio Baby manuscripts, ca 1982-1986 |
| 27 | 1 | 99 Years and a Dark Day manuscript; draft correspondence; ca 1984-1985 |
| 27 | 2 | The Hairy Legged Gypsy [unpublished fiction] manuscript; notes; "Growing Up Black in the Forties"; ca 1984-1985 |
| 27 | 3 | 99 Years and a Dark Day and Hairy Legged Gypsy manuscripts; draft correspondence; other writings; ca 1985-1985 |
| 27 | 4 | Baby Sweet's manuscript; draft correspondence; notes; ca 1985 |
| 27 | 5 | The Last Radio Baby manuscript; notes re: Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee; ca. 1985 |
| 27 | 6 | Jessie and Jesus and Cousin Claire manuscript; other writings; biographical writings on Benny Andrews; ca 1985-1988 |
| 28 | 1 | Jessie and Jesus and Cousin Claire manuscript; other writings; notes; draft correspondence; ca 1986-1988 |
| 28 | 2 | The Last Radio Baby manuscript; draft correspondence; ca 1988-1989 |
| 28 | 3 | The Last Radio Baby manuscript; draft correspondence; other writings; ca 1989-1990 |
| 28 | 4 | The Last Radio Baby manuscript; draft correspondence; notes; ca 1989-1991 [mostly empty] |
| 28 | 5 | Jessie and Jesus and Cousin Claire; "Once Upon a Time in Atlanta"; other writings; notes; draft correspondence; ca 1990-1991 |
| 28 | 6 | The Last Radio Baby and Jessie and Jesus and Cousin Claire manuscripts; ca 1990-1991 |
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