"Julian Messner, Inc." . . . . . . . . . "Biographies" . . "Material relating to Du Bois's biography of Frederick Douglass including six notebooks containing holograph research notes; two marked sets of galley proofs signed Shirley Graham; typescript of approximately 200 various pages of the work, annotated with editor's marks, with title page reading, \"The North Star: The Story of Frederick Douglass,\" and \"The Unquenchable Flame: Frederick Douglass and His World\" written in pencil in an unidentified hand, and signed Shirley Graham; typescript of approximately 525 pages, annotated with editors marks in an unidentified hand; and a TLS dated 1947 May 20, from Muriel Johnstone of Julian Messner, Inc., Publishers to Carl Van Vechten regarding the material." . "There was once a slave" .