* Claude McKay to J. H. Palmer, November 16, 1912, © 1987 by Hope McKay Virtue, 1110 Olive Avenue, Long Beach, Calif. 90813, and used by her permission. This letter is in the Booker T. Washington Papers (Container 459) at the Library of Congress.

* Claude McKay to Francine [Budgen],[ca.August, 1920), © 1987 by Hope McKay Virtue, 1110 Olive Avenue, Long Beach, Calif. 90813, and used by her permission. This letter is in the possession of Mrs. Francine Budgen, widow of Frank Budgen, London; copy in my possession.

* Claude McKay to Hubert Harrison, January 7, 1922, © 1987 by Hope McKay Virtue, 1110 Olive Avenue, Long Beach, Calif. 90813, and used by her permission. This letter is in the James Weldon Johnson Papers, NAACP Collection, at the Library of Congress.

* Claude McKay to H. L. Mencken, July 17, 1923, © 1987 by Hope McKay Virtue, 1110 Olive Avenue, Long Beach, Calif. 90813, and used by her permission. This letter is in the H. L. Mencken Papers, Berg Collection, at the New York Public Library.

* Claude McKay to Grace Campbell, January 7, 1924, © 1987 by Hope McKay Virtue, 1110 Olive Avenue, Long Beach, Calif. 90813, and used by her permission. This letter is in the Walter White Papers, NAACP Collection, at the Library of Congress.

* Claude McKay to H. L. Mencken, December 28, 1923, © 1987 by Hope McKay Virtue, 1110 Olive Avenue, Long Beach, Calif. 90813, and used by her permission. This letter is in the H. L. Mencken Papers, Berg Collection, at the New York Public Library.

* Claude McKay to Alain Locke, February 10, [no year], © 1987 by Hope McKay Virtue, 1110 Olive Avenue, Long Beach, Calif. 90813, and used by her permission. This letter is in the Alain Locke Papers at Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University Library.

* Claude McKay to Max Eastman, [undated, 1925], © 1987 by Hope McKay Virtue, 1110 Olive Avenue, Long Beach, Calif. 90813, and used by her permission. This letter is in the Max Eastman Papers (private possession).

* Claude McKay, “We Who Revolt (To Max Eastman),” © 1987 by Hope McKay Virtue, 1110 Olive Avenue, Long Beach, Calif. 90813, and used by her permission. This unpublished poem is in the Walter White Papers, NAACP Collection, at the Library of Congress.

* Claude McKay to Alain Locke, October 7, 1924, © 1987 by Hope McKay Virtue, 1110 Olive Avenue, Long Beach, Calif. 90813, and used by her permission. This letter is in the Alain Locke Papers at Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University Library.

* Claude McKay to Louise Bryant Bullitt, June 24, 1926, © 1987 by Hope McKay Virtue, 1110 Olive Avenue, Long Beach, Calif. 90813, and used by her permission. This letter is in the Claude McKay Papers, James Weldon Johnson Collection of Negro Literature and Art, American Literature Collection, at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

* Claude McKay to James Weldon Johnson, April 30, 1928, © 1987 by Hope McKay Virtue, 1110 Olive Avenue, Long Beach, Calif. 90813, and used by her permission. This letter is in the James Weldon Johnson Papers, James Weldon Johnson Collection of Negro Literature and Art, American Literature Collection, at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

* Claude McKay to Eugene Saxton, January 30, 1929, © 1987 by Hope McKay Virtue, 1110 Olive Avenue, Long Beach, Calif. 90813, and used by her permission. This letter is in the William Aspenwall Bradley Papers (private possession).

* Claude McKay to Max Eastman, December 1, 1931, © 1987 by Hope McKay Virtue, 1110 Olive Avenue, Long Beach, Calif. 90813, and used by her permission. This letter is in the Max Eastman Papers (private possession).

* Claude McKay to Max Eastman, June 28, 1933, © 1987 by Hope McKay Virtue, 1110 Olive Avenue, Long Beach, Calif. 90813, and used by her permission. This letter is in the Max Eastman Papers (private possession).

* Claude McKay to Edwin R. Embree, April 30, 1935, © 1987 by Hope McKay Virtue, 1110 Olive Avenue, Long Beach, Calif. 90813, and used by her permission. This letter is in the Julius Rosenwald Fund Archives at Fisk University Library.

* Claude McKay to A. A. Schomburg, August 20, 1935, © 1987 by Hope McKay Virtue, 1110 Olive Avenue, Long Beach, Calif. 90813, and used by her permission. This letter is in the Arthur A. Schomburg Papers, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, at the New York Public Library.

* Claude McKay to Joel Spingarn, March 12, 1937, © 1987 by Hope McKay Virtue, 1110 Olive Avenue, Long Beach, Calif. 90813, and used by her permission. This letter is in the Joel Spingarn Papers at the New York Public Library.

* Claude McKay to Max Eastman, August 13, 1942, © 1987 by Hope McKay Virtue, 1110 Olive Avenue, Long Beach, Calif. 90813, and used by her permission. This letter is in the Max Eastman Papers (private possession).

* Claude McKay to Mary Keating, June14, 1943, © 1987 by Hope McKay Virtue, 1110 Olive Avenue, Long Beach, Calif. 90813, and used by her permission. This letter is in the Tom and Mary Keating Papers (private possession).

* Claude McKay, initial sonnet in the “Cycle Manuscript,” © 1987 by Hope McKay Virtue, 1110 Olive Avenue, Long Beach, Calif. 90813, and used by her permission. The poems are in the Claude McKay Papers, James Weldon Johnson Collection of Negro Literature and Art, American Literature Collection, at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

* Claude McKay to Ivie Jackman, September 12, 1944, © 1987 by Hope McKay Virtue, 1110 Olive Avenue, Long Beach, Calif. 90813, and used by her permission. This letter is in the Ivie Jackman-Harold Jackman Papers at Trevor-Arnett Library, Atlanta University.