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Box 1

  • Box 1
    Folder 1
    Content: Diary, volume 1, January 1, 1926 to December 6, 1926; inserted material includes: Peter Rabbit Club certificate, receipt for first dollar ever earned for writing, news clippings, white & gold ribbon, sketch of Rita Motley age 9 by Archibald, hair clipping of Rita, three unidentified photos
  • Box 1
    Folder 2
    Content: Diary, volume 2, December 9, 1926 to September 4, 1927; inserted material includes: Englewood news clippings, photographs, typed notes
  • Box 1
    Folder 3
    Content: Diary, volume 3, September 7, 1927 to February 2, 1928; inserted material includes: postcards, sketch of football hero by Willard Motley, photograph, five high school report cards, "The Cheerleader" newsletters
  • Box 1
    Folder 4
    Content: Diary, volume 4, February 5, 1928 to May 14, 1928; inserted material includes: "The Cheerleader" newsletter, "Feudalism" report by W. Motley, "The Diary of Louis Barnes" report by W. Motley
  • Box 1
    Folder 5
    Content: Diary, volume 5, May 15, 1928 to October 5, 1928; inserted material includes: graduation exercises program 1928, contribution request letter
  • Box 1
    Folder 6
    Content: Diary, volume 6, October 5, 1928 to January 12, 1929; inserted material includes: little craft football player, clippings

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Box 2

  • Box 2
    Folder 1
    Content: Diary, volume 7, January 17, 1929 to May 2, 1929; inserted material includes: news clippings, "The Cheerleader" newsletters, notes, basketball banquet program, "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" report by W. Motley, sketches
  • Box 2
    Folder 2
    Content: Diary, volume 8, May 2, 1929 to September 25, 1929; inserted material includes: photo of Ruby Clagg, typed notes, news clippings, Englewood High commencement program
  • Box 2
    Folder 3
    Content: Diary, volume 9, July 26, 1929 to December 31, 1929; inserted material includes: clippings, handwritten notes, photograph, postcard
  • Box 2
    Folder 4
    Content: Diary, volume 10, January 1, 1930 to June 17, 1930; inserted material includes: clippings, photograph, receipts
  • Box 2
    Folder 5
    Content: Diary, volume 11, June 17, 1930 to July 20, 1930; inserted material includes: photographs, business cards, Christmas cards, Indiana highway map, typed papers, Hotel Lorraine stationary
  • Box 2
    Folder 6
    Content: Diary, volume 12, July 20, 1930 to November 15, 1930 ; inserted material includes: notes, news clippings, photographs
  • Box 2
    Folder 7
    Content: Diary, volume 13, November 22, 1930 to August 19,1931; inserted material includes: news clippings

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Box 3

  • Box 3
    Folder 1
    Content: Diary, volume 14, August 23, 1931 to March 14, 1932; inserted material includes: "E" patch, photographs, typed notes
  • Box 3
    Folder 2
    Content: Diary, volume 15, March 16, 1932 to September 9, 1932; inserted material includes: magazine article, typed birthday poem for Ray by Motley 1932, postcard, photograph
  • Box 3
    Folder 3
    Content: Diary, volume 16, September 12, 1932 to July 27, 1933; inserted material includes: Christmas cards, Valentine’s Day cards
  • Box 3
    Folder 4
    Content: Diary, volume 17, July 30, 1933 to September 2, 1933;
  • Box 3
    Folder 5
    Content: Diary, volume 18, September 4, 1933 to July 14, 1934; inserted material includes: Christmas cards, ticket from Madison, WI to Chicago, IL, movie advertisements
  • Box 3
    Folder 6
    Content: Diary, volume 19, July 16, 1934 to April 2, 1935; inserted material includes: Christmas cards

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Box 4

  • Box 4
    Folder 1
    Content: Diary, volume 20, April 7, 1935 to April 2, 1936; inserted material includes: typed notes, pamphlets, cards
  • Box 4
    Folder 2
    Content: Diary, volume 21, April 17, 1936 to November 27, 1936; inserted material includes: postcard
  • Box 4
    Folder 3
    Content: Diary, volume 22, December 1, 1936 to February 9, 1937; inserted material includes: diary written on toilet paper
  • Box 4
    Folder 4
    Content: Diary, volume 23, February 10, 1937 to March 30, 1937; inserted material includes: postcard, "The Quitter"
  • Box 4
    Folder 5
    Content: Diary, volume 24, March 30, 1937 to June 21, 1937; inserted material includes: spiral notebook
  • Box 4
    Folder 6
    Content: Diary, volume 25, June 21, 1937 to September 7, 1937; inserted material includes: handwritten notes, birthday card, 1938 Englewood High commencement program
  • Box 4
    Folder 7
    Content: Diary, volume 26, February 5, 1938 to June 28, 1938; inserted material includes: 1938 Woodrow Wilson Junior College commencement program, Christmas cards, statement, short biographical sketch written by Motley at age 26
  • Box 4
    Folder 8
    Content: Diary, volume 27, June 30, 1938 to September 17, 1938; inserted material includes: Fairmont Park Art program, postcard from Oregon and Utah, Columbia River highway picture cards, Christmas cards, Mount Hood clippings

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Box 5

  • Box 5
    Folder 1-5
    Content: Wilbur Marther’s Diaries I-V, January 21, 1927 to May 26, 1928
  • Box 5
    Folder 6
    Content: Diary volume 28, January 1, 1941 to December 11, 1944; inserted material includes: typed note cards, hair clipping, handwritten notes, Northwestern University information program for Writers' Conference 1944, patch

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Box 6

  • Box 6
    Folder 1
    Content: Diary, July 30, 1937 to September 12, 1937;
  • Box 6
    Folder 2
    Content: Diary, May 14, 1939 to October 15, 1940;
  • Box 6
    Folder 3
    Content: Typed summary of diary May 14, 1939 to April 6, 1944;
  • Box 6
    Folder 4
    Content: Diary, August 12-18, 1946;
  • Box 6
    Folder 5-11
    Content: Diary dealing with Knock On Any Door, April 21, 1947 to April 4, 1949
  • Box 6
    Folder 12
    Content: Diary with addresses, June 9 to July 16, 1947
  • Box 6
    Folder 13
    Content: Diary note, June 27, 1960 -- single sheet of paper
  • Box 6
    Folder 14
    Content: Diary, November 6, 1961 to February 19, 1965
  • Box 6
    Folder 15
    Content: Miscellaneous records 1930 - 1935
  • Box 6
    Folder 16
    Content: Bills Paid
  • Box 6
    Folder 17
    Content: Apartment contract and receipts

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Box 7

  • Box 7
    Folder 1
    Content: Correspondence, no dates
  • Box 7
    Folder 2-18
    Content: Correspondence, October 1923 to December 1943

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Box 8

  • Box 8
    Folder 1-12
    Content: Correspondence, 1944 to December 1946

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Box 9

  • Box 9
    Folder 1-16
    Content: Correspondence, 1947 to December 1947

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Box 10

  • Box 10
    Folder 1-21
    Content: Correspondence, 1948 to December 1949

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Box 11

  • Box 11
    Folder 1-16
    Content: Correspondence, 1950 to 1958

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Box 12

  • Box 12
    Folder 1-19
    Content: Correspondence, 1959 to 1965

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Box 13

  • Box 13
    Folder 1
    Content: Adventures and Misadventures of a Fool - Chapters 42, 43, 46; handwritten manuscript
  • Box 13
    Folder 2
    Content: Adventures and Misadventures of a Fool - Chapters 41-46; handwritten and typed manuscript
  • Box 13
    Folder 3-15
    Content: Adventures and Misadventures of a Fool - Chapters 1-38; typed manuscript
  • Box 13
    Folder 16-28
    Content: Adventures and Misadventures of a Fool - Chapters 1-38; carbon copy typed manuscript
  • Box 13
    Folder 29-41
    Content: Adventures and Misadventures of a Fool - Chapters 1-38; carbon copy typed manuscript
  • Box 13
    Folder 42
    Content: "Chicagoan Discovers Chicago"; typed introduction, spiral notebook with handwritten notes on Maxwell Street, Chicago
  • Box 13
    Folder 43
    Content: Empty envelope labeled "IDEAS Chicago Maxwell"
  • Box 13
    Folder 44
    Content: "Chicagoan Discovers Chicago"; handwritten notes on Maxwell Street, Halsted Street, West Madison, Hull-House, Around the World in Chicago
  • Box 13
    Folder 45
    Content: "Chicagoan Discovers Chicago"; handwritten notes on Jew-Town, typed notes "Jewtown"
  • Box 13
    Folder 46
    Content: "Chicagoan Discovers Chicago"; typed manuscript notes on Maxwell Street, Chicago
  • Box 13
    Folder 47-48
    Content: "East Superior Street" typed manuscript
  • Box 13
    Folder 49-50
    Content: "East Superior Street" typed manuscript carbon copy; East Yukon Street typed note - An Author Looks At His Material
  • Box 13
    Folder 51-52
    Content: "East Superior Street" typed manuscript carbon copy
  • Box 13
    Folder 53-56
    Content: "East Superior Street" handwritten and typed notes (East Yukon Street)
  • Box 13
    Folder 57
    Content: The Family–miscellaneous notes, letter
  • Box 13
    Folder 58
    Content: Archibald John (A. J.) Motley biographies "Mother-Last Days" - typescript notes
  • Box 13
    Folder 59
    Content: The Family after mother’s death - miscellaneous notes
  • Box 13
    Folder 60
    Content: The Family–miscellaneous notes, incomplete typed story
  • Box 13
    Folder 61
    Content: "A Criminal is Made" – handwritten notes for Knock On Any Door (Leave Without Illusions working title for Knock On Any Door)
  • Box 13
    Folder 62
    Content: Knock On Any Door–notebook containing handwritten notes on Emma and Germans
  • Box 13
    Folder 63
    Content: Knock on Any Door–notes, material from Nick, handwritten
  • Box 13
    Folder 64-67
    Content: Knock On Any Door - miscellaneous notes handwritten and typed
  • Box 13
    Folder 68-80
    Content: Knock On Any Door–Nick Used Notes I, handwritten and typed notes, drafts, diagrams, maps, charts, etc.

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Box 14

  • Box 14
    Folder 1-11
    Content: Knock On Any Door - Nick Used Notes II, handwritten and typed notes, drafts, diagrams, etc. Deals with Nick, jail, Emma, Owen, etc.
  • Box 14
    Folder 12-19
    Content: Knock On Any Door - Nick Used Notes III, handwritten and typed notes, drafts, etc. Deals mostly with Nick’s capture, trial and execution
  • Box 14
    Folder 20-21
    Content: Knock On Any Door–handwritten notes in notebooks - Halsted & Madison; Halsted Street 14 South to Madison; Pa Romano; State vs. Nick Romano; handwritten and typed drafts
  • Box 14
    Folder 22
    Content: Knock On Any Door–handwritten and typed manuscript and clippings
  • Box 14
    Folder 23
    Content: Knock On Any Door - gloss; typed manuscript draft fragment
  • Box 14
    Folder 24
    Content: Knock On Any Door–preliminaries - title page, dedication, thank you, etc.
  • Box 14
    Folder 25-57
    Content: Knock On Any Door–handwritten manuscript, chapter 1-2 fragments, chapters 1-90

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Box 15

  • Box 15
    Folder 1-18
    Content: Knock On Any Door–handwritten manuscript, chapters 91-1 12
  • Box 15
    Folder 19
    Content: Knock On Any Door–explanation of rest note
  • Box 15
    Folder 20
    Content: Knock On Any Door–typed manuscript, preliminaries
  • Box 15
    Folder 21
    Content: Knock On Any Door–typed manuscript, chapter 3 1
  • Box 15
    Folder 22
    Content: Knock On Any Door–typed manuscript, gloss, chapter 22
  • Box 15
    Folder 23
    Content: Knock On Any Door–typed manuscript, chapter 23 and draft fragment
  • Box 15
    Folder 24
    Content: Knock On Any Door - typed manuscript, preliminaries
  • Box 15
    Folder 25-73
    Content: Knock On Any Door–typed manuscript, pages 1-1951

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Box 16

  • Box 16
    Folder 1
    Content: Knock On Any Door–preliminaries and preface
  • Box 16
    Folder 2-16
    Content: Knock On Any Door–typed carbon copy manuscript, pages 1210-1951
  • Box 16
    Folder 17
    Content: Knock On Any Door–preliminaries and preface
  • Box 16
    Folder 18-19
    Content: Knock On Any Door - typed carbon copy manuscript, pages 1-87
  • Box 16
    Folder 20-39
    Content: Knock On Any Door–typed carbon copy manuscript, pages 1-1078
  • Box 16
    Folder 40
    Content: Knock On Any Door–vulgar word list
  • Box 16
    Folder 41-42
    Content: Knock On Any Door–miscellaneous typed drafts with handwritten corrections
  • Box 16
    Folder 43
    Content: Knock On Any Door–scenic italics, fragment from typed manuscript
  • Box 16
    Folder 44-57
    Content: Knock On Any Door–typed manuscript, pages 1-1058
  • Box 16
    Folder 58
    Content: Knock On Any Door–preface
  • Box 16
    Folder 59
    Content: Knock On Any Door–publicity

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Box 17

  • Box 17
    Folder 1
    Content: Knock On Any Door–preliminary promotion plan
  • Box 17
    Folder 2
    Content: typed schedule for Willard Motley
  • Box 17
    Folder 3
    Content: Knock On Any Door–Appleton-Century Releases, publicity materials
  • Box 17
    Folder 4
    Content: Knock On Any Door–radio script "Democracy U.S.A."
  • Box 17
    Folder 5
    Content: Knock On Any Door–dust jacket, proofs - title page, dedication, thank you
  • Box 17
    Folder 6
    Content: Knock On Any Door–movie advertisement, publicity catalogue
  • Box 17
    Folder 7
    Content: Let No Man Write My Epitaph–fragment of typed manuscript
  • Box 17
    Folder 8
    Content: Let No Man Write My Epitaph - typed carbon copy announcement mailing list
  • Box 17
    Folder 9
    Content: Let Noon Be Fair–(Tourist Town working title) conspectus typed with handwritten notes
  • Box 17
    Folder 10-11
    Content: Let Noon Be Fair–handwritten notes in notebooks
  • Box 17
    Folder 12
    Content: Let Noon Be Fair–typed conspectus with handwritten notes, outline and index
  • Box 17
    Folder 13-26
    Content: Let Noon Be Fair–handwritten and typed notes, mention chart
  • Box 17
    Folder 27-31
    Content: Let Noon Be Fair–handwritten manuscript, preliminaries, 1st draft Section I-II
  • Box 17
    Folder 32-57
    Content: Let Noon Be Fair–handwritten manuscript, chapters 8-185, 1st draft

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Box 18

  • Box 18
    Folder 1-9
    Content: Let Noon Be Fair–typed manuscript, chapters 1-6, 8-50, 52-90, 2nd draft
  • Box 18
    Folder 10-21
    Content: Let Noon Be Fair–typed manuscript, pages 1-893, complete except for preliminaries, heavily edited
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    Folder 22
    Content: Let Noon Be Fair–typed manuscript pages removed for editing
  • Box 18
    Folder 23-33
    Content: Let Noon Be Fair - typed carbon copy manuscript, pages 1-1229 and i - iii
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    Folder 34
    Content: Let Noon Be Fair–typed carbon copy manuscript, pages 482-1229, incomplete
  • Box 18
    Folder 35
    Content: Let Noon Be Fair–typed carbon copy manuscript, pages 1085-1129, incomplete
  • Box 18
    Folder 36
    Content: Let Noon Be Fair - typed manuscript, chapter 66
  • Box 18
    Folder 37
    Content: Let Noon Be Fair - typed carbon copy manuscript, draft fragments

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Box 19

  • Box 19
    Folder 1-10
    Content: Let Noon Be Fair–typed manuscript, pages i - iii, 1-606, complete
  • Box 19
    Folder 11
    Content: My House is Your House–handwritten notes
  • Box 19
    Folder 12
    Content: My House is Your House–typed manuscript, "Those En Route"
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    Folder 13-19
    Content: My House is Your House - typed and handwritten manuscript, incomplete draft
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    Folder 20-31
    Content: My House is Your House–typed manuscript, pages 1-597, complete except for title page
  • Box 19
    Folder 32-33
    Content: My House is Your House - typed carbon copy manuscript, pages 369-486
  • Box 19
    Folder 34
    Content: typed notes labeled "The Spider"
  • Box 19
    Folder 35
    Content: typed carbon copy manuscript, conspectus A Stone and Four Eagles, typed notes on Hidalgo
  • Box 19
    Folder 36
    Content: We Fished All Night–also Of Night, Perchance Of Death–typed newspaper research work
  • Box 19
    Folder 37
    Content: We Fished All Night - typed manuscript, notes and clippings
  • Box 19
    Folder 38
    Content: We Fished All Night - handwritten manuscript sketch "Them Tears In My Eyes"
  • Box 19
    Folder 39-70
    Content: We Fished All Night–handwritten and typed notes, clippings

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Box 20

  • Box 20
    Folder 1-2
    Content: We Fished All Night–handwritten and typed notes, charts, clippings
  • Box 20
    Folder 3-4
    Content: We Fished All Night - handwritten outline, incomplete
  • Box 20
    Folder 5
    Content: We Fished All Night–handwritten and typed notes, fragments
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    Folder 6-8
    Content: We Fished All Night–typed conspectus
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    Folder 9
    Content: We Fished All Night - typed notes, criticism, queries
  • Box 20
    Folder 10
    Content: We Fished All Night - handwritten notes, character sketches
  • Box 20
    Folder 11-17
    Content: We Fished All Night–handwritten and typed notes, fragments, clippings, manuscript
  • Box 20
    Folder 18
    Content: We Fished All Night - chapter 6
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    Folder 19-20
    Content: We Fished All Night–handwritten and typed notes
  • Box 20
    Folder 21-28
    Content: We Fished All Night–character folders
  • Box 20
    Folder 29
    Content: We Fished All Night–italic prefaces
  • Box 20
    Folder 30
    Content: We Fished All Night–title page, dedication
  • Box 20
    Folder 31
    Content: We Fished All Night - typed manuscript, chapter 1 &4
  • Box 20
    Folder 32
    Content: We Fished All Night - typed manuscript fragment
  • Box 20
    Folder 33
    Content: We Fished All Night–typed manuscript, chapter 5
  • Box 20
    Folder 34
    Content: We Fished All Night - typed manuscript, chapter 1 - 2
  • Box 20
    Folder 35
    Content: We Fished All Night - typed manuscript, chapter 5

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Box 21

  • Box 21
    Folder 1-9
    Content: We Fished All Night–handwritten manuscript, section 1, chapter 1-5 and section 2, chapter 1-4
  • Box 21
    Folder 10
    Content: We Fished All Night–typed manuscript, section 1 chapter 1 fragment
  • Box 21
    Folder 11
    Content: We Fished All Night–typed manuscript, preliminaries, chapter 1-2
  • Box 21
    Folder 12-23
    Content: We Fished All Night - typed carbon copy manuscript, preliminaries, books 1-6
  • Box 21
    Folder 24-27
    Content: We Fished All Night–typed carbon copy manuscript, incomplete draft. Three sections: Don Lockwood, Jim Norris, Aaron
  • Box 21
    Folder 28-32
    Content: You Lovely People–handwritten and typed notes, plot, character sketches
  • Box 21
    Folder 33-41
    Content: Keepers of the Wall–typed manuscript, a play

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Box 22

  • Box 22
    Folder 1
    Content: "The Adult Delinquency Problem", article
  • Box 22
    Folder 2
    Content: "Adventure in Hitch-hiking", autobiographical sketch
  • Box 22
    Folder 3
    Content: "All This is Ours", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 4
    Content: "Almost White Boy", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 5
    Content: "Amazing Year with Maxwell Revel of 1930-31 C.C.C.", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 6-7
    Content: "America Calling", radio script
  • Box 22
    Folder 8-9
    Content: "Beautiful Boy", autobiographical fiction
  • Box 22
    Folder 10
    Content: "Bedroom Scene", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 11
    Content: "Beer Drinkers", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 12
    Content: "Big Fist", review
  • Box 22
    Folder 13
    Content: "Biography of a Character", outline for article
  • Box 22
    Folder 14
    Content: "Bohemian Life", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 15
    Content: "Bookshop with Bed", notes for play
  • Box 22
    Folder 16
    Content: "Boy Grows Up", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 17
    Content: "Boy Meets Boy", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 18
    Content: "Cat That Went to College", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 19
    Content: Chicago Quotes
  • Box 22
    Folder 20
    Content: "Christmas Story", play
  • Box 22
    Folder 21
    Content: "Cigarettes", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 22
    Content: City Sketches
  • Box 22
    Folder 23
    Content: "Clayton, Waterboy, Substitutes", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 24
    Content: "Coffee & Cigarettes", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 25
    Content: "Concert", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 26
    Content: "Crooner", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 27
    Content: "Culture and the H-Bombs", statement
  • Box 22
    Folder 28
    Content: "Democracy & Equality", speech
  • Box 22
    Folder 29
    Content: "Democracy & Liberty: An Outline for Speakers"
  • Box 22
    Folder 30
    Content: "Democracy on West Madison Street", photo essay
  • Box 22
    Folder 31
    Content: "Desire is Sad", collection
  • Box 22
    Folder 32
    Content: "Divide & Conquer", speech outline
  • Box 22
    Folder 33
    Content: "Division Point", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 34
    Content: "Education of a Writer", autobiographical brief
  • Box 22
    Folder 35
    Content: "Ethel’s Story of Her Girlhood", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 36
    Content: "Evidence Destroyed", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 37
    Content: "Fable", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 38
    Content: "Fame is a Dry, Lonely Place", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 39
    Content: "Father Burnett’s Vestry", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 40
    Content: "Fifty-Cent Piece", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 41
    Content: "Finis", poem
  • Box 22
    Folder 42
    Content: "Fires of Spring", review
  • Box 22
    Folder 43
    Content: "First Shower", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 44
    Content: "Food Without Religion", article
  • Box 22
    Folder 45
    Content: Four Non-fiction Chapters
  • Box 22
    Folder 46
    Content: "From One Beginner to Another", article
  • Box 22
    Folder 47
    Content: Funnies
  • Box 22
    Folder 48
    Content: "Give the Gentleman What He Wants", article
  • Box 22
    Folder 49
    Content: "Grammar School Dance Lesson", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 50
    Content: "Grandparents", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 51
    Content: "Great Ping Pong Scandal", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 52
    Content: "Green Square", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 53
    Content: "Halsted Street Gentleman", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 54
    Content: "Heat Lightning", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 55
    Content: "Heights and Depths", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 56
    Content: "Homecoming", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 57
    Content: "House on Wolf Road", radio play
  • Box 22
    Folder 58
    Content: "How the Road Was Built", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 59
    Content: "I Discover I'm a Negro", article
  • Box 22
    Folder 60
    Content: "If a Lassie Meet a Laddie", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 61
    Content: "I Knew That You Were Meant For Me", poetry
  • Box 22
    Folder 62
    Content: "I Love You So", poem
  • Box 22
    Folder 63
    Content: "I'm Tree", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 64
    Content: "In All the World No Trip Like This", autobiographical sketch
  • Box 22
    Folder 65
    Content: "Indian Summer", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 66
    Content: "In Defense of Drunkenness", article
  • Box 22
    Folder 67
    Content: "In the Days of Romance", list characters for a play
  • Box 22
    Folder 68
    Content: "Island Philosopher", article
  • Box 22
    Folder 69
    Content: "It Rained Again Today", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 70
    Content: "It’s All Copy", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 71
    Content: "Jesus Wept", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 72
    Content: "John Santos- Varieties of the Dance", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 73
    Content: "A Kilo of Tortillas, a Guaje of Pulque", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 74
    Content: "Kodaker", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 75
    Content: "Lawyer Man, Doctor Man", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 76
    Content: "Let Me Speak, My Darling", poetry
  • Box 22
    Folder 77
    Content: "Let Me Tell You Something about Chi-", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 78
    Content: "A Life of Christ for Lowbrows", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 79
    Content: "Lil", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 80
    Content: "Lonely Crusade", review
  • Box 22
    Folder 81
    Content: "Los Mexicanos", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 82
    Content: "Love Defeated", "Love Moon", poetry
  • Box 22
    Folder 83
    Content: "Love is for Always"
  • Box 22
    Folder 84
    Content: "Lucy", a play
  • Box 22
    Folder 85
    Content: "Mark it with a Stone", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 86
    Content: "Martin Brothers", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 87
    Content: "Memories of You", "Mistake", short stories
  • Box 22
    Folder 88
    Content: "Mount Hood Holiday", article
  • Box 22
    Folder 89
    Content: "Needles", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 90
    Content: "New York Hotel Manager", autobiographical account of racial discrimination
  • Box 22
    Folder 91
    Content: "Nino de la Noche", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 92
    Content: "No Certain Answer", review, "November Twenty-second", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 93
    Content: "Omar Comes Out of the Wilderness", autobiographical sketch
  • Box 22
    Folder 94
    Content: "Omar Goes to Catalina", autobiographical sketch
  • Box 22
    Folder 95
    Content: "Once", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 96
    Content: "One of the Family", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 97
    Content: "Path of Thunder", review
  • Box 22
    Folder 98
    Content: "Pauline", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 99
    Content: "Pavement Portraits", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 100
    Content: "Peggy", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 101
    Content: "Pennie for Passage", autobiographical sketch
  • Box 22
    Folder 102
    Content: "Philadelphia Story", account
  • Box 22
    Folder 103
    Content: "Prince of a Priest", autobiographical article
  • Box 22
    Folder 104
    Content: "Prophet", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 105-106
    Content: "Puerto Vallarta", autobiographical article
  • Box 22
    Folder 107
    Content: "Questioner", poem
  • Box 22
    Folder 108
    Content: "Ranch Hand", autobiographical article
  • Box 22
    Folder 109
    Content: "Religion of the Freemans", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 110
    Content: "Relief Blunderbuss", article
  • Box 22
    Folder 111
    Content: "Role of the Writer Today", speech
  • Box 22
    Folder 112
    Content: "Room for Rent", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 113
    Content: "Row, Row, Row, Your Boat", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 114
    Content: "Scientific Selection of Winners", article on horse race betting
  • Box 22
    Folder 115
    Content: "Second Team Stevens", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 116
    Content: "Seminary", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 117
    Content: "Shakespeare", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 118
    Content: "Skid Row", short stories
  • Box 22
    Folder 119
    Content: "Slum Patterns", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 120
    Content: "Slums Have A Mission: A New Slant on the Slums", article
  • Box 22
    Folder 121
    Content: "Song in His Heart", short story
  • Box 22
    Folder 122
    Content: "South of the Border", autobiography
  • Box 22
    Folder 123
    Content: "Spirit of the Youth in Hull-House", article
  • Box 22
    Folder 124
    Content: "Street Walker", short story

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Box 23

  • Box 23
    Folder 1
    Content: "Study of the Men on West Madison Street", short story
  • Box 23
    Folder 2
    Content: "Successful Minister", short story
  • Box 23
    Folder 3
    Content: Talk Given by W.M. to Athenaean Literary Society, UW-Madison on 10-14- 1960
  • Box 23
    Folder 4
    Content: Terms (Male) Dictionary - notes on homosexual slang
  • Box 23
    Folder 5
    Content: "This Is the Underground", radio play
  • Box 23
    Folder 6
    Content: "To A Lost Love", poetry
  • Box 23
    Folder 7
    Content: "Total Production", short story
  • Box 23
    Folder 8
    Content: "To the Edge of Doom", short story
  • Box 23
    Folder 9
    Content: "Town Album", short story
  • Box 23
    Folder 10
    Content: "Triphammer’s Story", short story
  • Box 23
    Folder 11
    Content: "Two Men and an Enigma", play
  • Box 23
    Folder 12
    Content: "Two Women", short story
  • Box 23
    Folder 13
    Content: "Typical Day in the Country", short story
  • Box 23
    Folder 14
    Content: "Uncorked", short story
  • Box 23
    Folder 15
    Content: Drawing and pictures oft characters for a story; typed manuscript beginning, "Albert Ternus the rich,"
  • Box 23
    Folder 16
    Content: Handwritten and typed notes for speech beginning, "Bughouse Square"
  • Box 23
    Folder 17
    Content: Story beginning "Everyone visits the English class."
  • Box 23
    Folder 18
    Content: Poem beginning, "In two hours you will enter the room."
  • Box 23
    Folder 19
    Content: Story beginning, "It was a beautiful world to look at"
  • Box 23
    Folder 20
    Content: Sketch beginning, "I walk down the dirt road"
  • Box 23
    Folder 21
    Content: Story beginning, "McLean’s wife shook back from her eyes"
  • Box 23
    Folder 22
    Content: Comments for a photo essay
  • Box 23
    Folder 23
    Content: Story beginning, "When Jenny turned sixteen"
  • Box 23
    Folder 24
    Content: Brief autobiography
  • Box 23
    Folder 25
    Content: "V-Female", short story
  • Box 23
    Folder 26
    Content: "Voyage to No End", poetry
  • Box 23
    Folder 27
    Content: "Voyage of Peter Midnight", poetry
  • Box 23
    Folder 28
    Content: "Weasel Takes a Woman", clipping
  • Box 23
    Folder 29
    Content: "Where the Miracle Happened", autobiographical sketch
  • Box 23
    Folder 30
    Content: "Young Soldier’s Mother", short story
  • Box 23
    Folder 31
    Content: "Wish", short story
  • Box 23
    Folder 32
    Content: "Woman Thy Name Is", short story
  • Box 23
    Folder 33
    Content: "Young Man Asks Himself Questions", short story
  • Box 23
    Folder 34
    Content: Aims and outlines of articles and short fiction
  • Box 23
    Folder 35
    Content: Ann Riverside - notes on prostitution
  • Box 23
    Folder 36
    Content: Billings Sketches - notes on characters at Billings hospital
  • Box 23
    Folder 37
    Content: Books — For Style, Comfort, & Durability - reading list
  • Box 23
    Folder 38
    Content: Notebook containing miscellaneous handwritten notes and drawings
  • Box 23
    Folder 39
    Content: Notebook containing handwritten notes, list of names
  • Box 23
    Folder 40
    Content: Notebook labeled House on Wells Street
  • Box 23
    Folder 41
    Content: Italian - notes on Italians
  • Box 23
    Folder 42
    Content: Material for novels containing miscellaneous notes, and notes titled "I'm Judd", "Biography of a Nobody Who Was Somebody", "Three Women"
  • Box 23
    Folder 43
    Content: Notebook Mexico, handwritten notes
  • Box 23
    Folder 44
    Content: Miramar y Sola de Compadres
  • Box 23
    Folder 45
    Content: Miscellaneous writing materials
  • Box 23
    Folder 46
    Content: Handwritten notes on Morris Glenn
  • Box 23
    Folder 47
    Content: Miscellaneous handwritten and typed notes, clippings, etc.
  • Box 23
    Folder 48
    Content: Near North Side characters - handwritten notes on projected book
  • Box 23
    Folder 49
    Content: Negro-Beating the Draft - handwritten notes
  • Box 23
    Folder 50
    Content: Notebook containing handwritten notes on a conversation
  • Box 23
    Folder 51
    Content: Handwritten notes, observations
  • Box 23
    Folder 52
    Content: Handwritten notes, typed notes, handwritten manuscript, On Writing
  • Box 23
    Folder 53
    Content: Plays, handwritten notes and manuscript
  • Box 23
    Folder 54
    Content: PsyParanoia - handwritten notes, manuscript on paranoia
  • Box 23
    Folder 55
    Content: Typed manuscript "Psy", notes on psychology
  • Box 23
    Folder 56
    Content: Short Stories - handwritten and typed notes on plots, incidents, etc.
  • Box 23
    Folder 57
    Content: Short Stories in progress - notes on characters, names, plots, submission of stories
  • Box 23
    Folder 58-59
    Content: Sport Story Materials
  • Box 23
    Folder 60
    Content: Titles - handwritten notes, list of titles
  • Box 23
    Folder 61
    Content: To view all of life - handwritten notes, aphorisms
  • Box 23
    Folder 62
    Content: Tumorous Mice - notes on lab technique
  • Box 23
    Folder 63
    Content: Types of Men and Women
  • Box 23
    Folder 64
    Content: Typed manuscript, handwritten notes, clippings relating to writing technique and material
  • Box 23
    Folder 65
    Content: Notebook contain notes taken at Moody Bible Institute
  • Box 23
    Folder 66-67
    Content: Handwritten notes on dialogue, etc.
  • Box 23
    Folder 68
    Content: Handwritten notes on and account of a homosexual experience
  • Box 23
    Folder 69
    Content: Basketball scores of the Purple Athletic Club
  • Box 23
    Folder 70
    Content: Reading list
  • Box 23
    Folder 71
    Content: Addresses, handwritten notes
  • Box 23
    Folder 72-75
    Content: Miscellaneous loose notes and manuscript fragment
  • Box 23
    Folder 76
    Content: Handwritten manuscript, printed matter, handwritten notes, cookbook
  • Box 23
    Folder 77
    Content: "Ye Camelot Eleven" – football roster, scores, plays

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Box 24

  • Box 24
    Folder 1
    Content: James Armstrong photo (on CD-ROM), Englewood High School information
  • Box 24
    Folder 2
    Content: Man, child, woman photo (on CD-ROM)
  • Box 24
    Folder 3-6
    Content: "You Are Now Entering ’Little Sicily’" typed manuscript description of photos (on CD-ROM)
  • Box 24
    Folder 7
    Content: Two photos, folder marked material Emmett Dunn (on CD-ROM)
  • Box 24
    Folder 8
    Content: Folder labeled photos Morry
  • Box 24
    Folder 9-10
    Content: Knock On Any Door photos (on CD-ROM)
  • Box 24
    Folder 11
    Content: photos - Maxwell Street (on CD-ROM)
  • Box 24
    Folder 12
    Content: Color photos - McCarthy, Motley, and Walsh in New York 1951; Jim McCarthy alone and with others ( Sam, Susie, Katie, Will) (on CD-ROM)
  • Box 24
    Folder 13-14
    Content: Photos from Mexico (on CD-ROM)
  • Box 24
    Folder 15-16
    Content: Motley photos (on CD-ROM) portrait of Motley by Carl Van Vechten
  • Box 24
    Folder 17
    Content: Photo of A.J. Motley painting (on CD-ROM)
  • Box 24
    Folder 18
    Content: Mount Hood photos, negatives for Mount Hood, CA, etc.
  • Box 24
    Folder 19
    Content: Breck J. Nelson photos, Matia Noriego photo (on CD-ROM)
  • Box 24
    Folder 20
    Content: Purdy photos (on CD-ROM)
  • Box 24
    Folder 21
    Content: Photos of Motley and Sam, Katie, Susie Rapport (on CD-ROM)
  • Box 24
    Folder 22
    Content: Autographed photo of Frankie Ray (on CD-ROM)
  • Box 24
    Folder 23
    Content: Carl Sandburg photo and others (on CD-ROM)
  • Box 24
    Folder 24
    Content: Photos (on CD-ROM)
  • Box 24
    Folder 25
    Content: Photos (on CD) You Lovely People
  • Box 24
    Folder 26
    Content: Photos (on CD-ROM) Eleven (11) reels magnetic wire recordings Five (5) reel to reel magnetic tape recordings (copies of magnetic wire recordings) 2 CD-ROMs of photographs
  • Box 24
    Folder 27
    Content: Transcript of magnetic tape recording of an interview with "Mother," Mary Huff Motley completed by Craig Abbott
  • Box 24
    Folder 28
    Content: Transcript of magnetic tape recording of an interview with "Brother," Archibald Motley, Jr. completed by Craig Abbott Transcript of magnetic tape recording of an interview with "Sister," Flossie Motley completed by Craig Abbott

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Box 25

  • Box 25
    Folder 1
    Content: Outdoors, April 1939, "Assault on Catalina"
  • Box 25
    Folder 2
    Content: Ohio Motorist, Aug. 1938, "The Boy"
  • Box 25
    Folder 3
    Content: "Bud Says" articles, Dec. 1922 - Jan. 1924
  • Box 25
    Folder 4
    Content: Highway Traveler, Aug./Sept. 1938, "Calle Olvera"
  • Box 25
    Folder 5-6
    Content: The Cheerleader, April 30, 1928 - Jan. 16, 1936
  • Box 25
    Folder 7
    Content: Chicago Daily News, clipping, Aug. 18, 1947
  • Box 25
    Folder 8
    Content: Scrapbook with stories, Jan. 5, 1924—
  • Box 25
    Folder 9-11
    Content: Newspaper clippings
  • Box 25
    Folder 12
    Content: "Date with Gabriel", radio play
  • Box 25
    Folder 13
    Content: Rogue, Aug. 1965, "Death Leaves A Candle"
  • Box 25
    Folder 14
    Content: "E" weekly –unauthorized Englewood High School paper
  • Box 25
    Folder 15
    Content: photocopy of newspaper article
  • Box 25
    Folder 16
    Content: Rogue, Oct. 1964, "Give the Gentleman What He Wants"
  • Box 25
    Folder 17
    Content: Hull-House Magazine, Jan. 1940
  • Box 25
    Folder 18
    Content: History of a negro
  • Box 25
    Folder 19
    Content: Hull-House Magazine, Nov. 1939
  • Box 25
    Folder 20
    Content: Automobile & Trailer Travel Magazine, Aug. 1939, "Idaho Presents Shoshone Falls"
  • Box 25
    Folder 21
    Content: "In Slum Area of Brooklyn", Aug. 31, 1947
  • Box 25
    Folder 22
    Content: Rogue, Aug. 1964, "A Kilo of Tortillas, A Guaje of Pulque"
  • Box 25
    Folder 23-28
    Content: Abridged versions of Knock On Any Door
  • Box 25
    Folder 29
    Content: "Let No Man Write Epitaph of Hate for His Chicago"
  • Box 25
    Folder 30
    Content: Look, Nov. 25, 1947
  • Box 25
    Folder 31
    Content: "Mankind Cries Out from a Poor Mexican Village", May 31, 1964
  • Box 25
    Folder 32
    Content: "Motley Cites Another Unwritten Law in Defense of James Hickman", Sept. 13, 1947
  • Box 25
    Folder 33
    Content: Negro Art in Chicago, Jan. 1940
  • Box 25
    Folder 34
    Content: "Novelist Looks Again Upon His Chicago", Mar. 15, 1959
  • Box 25
    Folder 35
    Content: Opening address
  • Box 25
    Folder 36
    Content: "An Outsider’s View on Plight of Excess Income Families", Oct. 29, 1948
  • Box 25
    Folder 37
    Content: Hull-House Magazine, Dec. 1939
  • Box 25
    Folder 38
    Content: Pittsburgh Courier clipping, May 24, 1947
  • Box 25
    Folder 39
    Content: Speech-most valuable player trophy presentation, May 22, 1930
  • Box 25
    Folder 40
    Content: Purple & White 1929 - Englewood High School yearbook; Purple Book 1928–Purple Athletic Club
  • Box 25
    Folder 41
    Conte