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Details

Additional authors

1. Peterson Linotyping Co., printer.

Description

1. 80 pages, [2] leaves of plates : portraits; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

1. Black author
2. African Americans > Poetry

Contents

1. Dream of a whisper -- The all-time -- Dunbar -- Beloved -- What Mistah Robin sais -- Love's good-night -- Swinburne -- Launcelot's defiance -- Uncle Isham lies a-dyin' -- Gift o' love to me -- Waters of forgetfulness -- Kentucky moon -- The plaint of the factory child -- Death of love -- Down upon the Palatine -- Flower of the summer night -- Rome is dying -- Ruby -- Where is fame? The lover's soliloquy -- May -- Mistah Witch -- My love -- In theNeulahlan' -- Farewell to Lucille -- When I reach manhood -- And the wound is not for man to see -- Can you tell me? -- The gleeman's melody -- The Ethiopian's song -- Down to Eldorado -- The Mulatto's song -- Cora -- Come along -- Malindy -- In the evening -- Dream song -- When I die -- Mah mammy -- The song of the Titanic victin -- Kathleen -- The whisper of the wind -- The awakening of Poesy -- Alone -- Of the rose -- Mammy's honey boy -- To the Afro-American maiden -- The burden bearer -- Richard Byron -- Abendlied -- Mine Rachel -- Illion -- My mother -- When I speak of Jamie -- Let us go away -- To the queen o' the May -- B.B. -- The vision of Lazarus -- Laus Jehova.

Call number

1. Sc Rare C 84-22

Note

1. The frontispiece portrait depicts Ellen Johnson, grandmother of the author.
2. "Copyright 1913 Fenton Johnson."--verso of title page.

Source (note)

1. Arthur A. Schomburg;

Provenance (note)

1. is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Author

1. Johnson, Fenton, 1888-1958, author.

Title

1. A little dreaming / by Fenton Johnson.

Publisher

1. Chicago : Peterson Linotyping Co., 1913.

Copyright date

1. ©1913.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc 811-J (accession no. B526335) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

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1. Request Access to Special Collections Material
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Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Peterson Linotyping Co., printer.
2. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research call number

1. Sc Rare C 84-22
2. Sc Rare 811-J (Johnson, Fenton. Little dreaming)
3. Sc 811-J (Johnson, Fenton. Little dreaming)
4. NBI (Johnson, F. Little dreaming)