Letter to Mr Lindfords, of University of Texas, editor RAL, December 27, 1984. Summary: about Steins’ dispute with Mr Comhaire.

Letter to the Secrétaire de l’Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, Bruxelles 21 Janvier, 1985. Summary : about modifications to his planned talk « Mouvements nègres en France entre 1919 et 1939”.

Letter to Dr Bernth Lindfors, March 15, 1985, Austin. Summary: on-going dispute with Mr Comhaire. Enclosed within is the letter to the Secretary of the Academy (which went unanswered).

Letter to Dr Steins from Bernth Lindfors, 5 March 1985. Summary: Decision to withdraw his correspondence with Mr Comhaire from the ‘Letters to the Editor’ section of the RAL.

Letter to Dr Steins from Bernth Lindfors, 12 December 1984. Summary: offer to respond to a letter that will be published in ‘Letters to the Edtitor’ section of RAL.

Letter from J Comhaire to Dr Lindfors, 20 October, 1984, Brussels. Summary: Comhaire outlines ‘several factual errors’ of Steins’s article on African and Afro-American movements in Paris around the year 1932.

Manuscript sent to Steins from Bernth Lindfors an enclosed within the letter dated 1 February 1985 below. Light blue paper. Addressed to Paulette Nardal and seems to be feedback/criticism of an article about the role of the Nardal sisters in the Negritude movement.

Letter from Bernth Lindfors to Dr Steins, 1 February 1985. Summary: dispute about Mr M’Bow’s letter, the letter from Mr Comhaire and request to review manuscript submitted to RAL.

Letter to Secrétaire de l’Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-mer, Bruxelles, 21 January 1985. Summary : same request for modifications to his talk on « Mouvements nègres en France entre 1919 et 1939.”

Letter to Mr Lindfors, September 20, 1984. Summary: criticism of Edward O Ako’s article ‘L’Etudiant Noir and the Myth of the Genesis of the Negritude Movement.’

Letter to Dr Steins from Amadou-Mahtar M’Bow, Directeur Général de l’Unesco Paris, 24 Mai, 1983. Summary : details of Steins’s talk « Les Mouvements Nègres à Paris, 1919 – 1939 » at the Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer.

Duplication of the above letter from Amadou-Mahtar M’Bow.

Letter to Mr Lindfors, University of Texas, Austin, editor RAL, December 27, 1984. Enclosed within is the letter from UNESCO President M’Bow which indicates ‘that Mr C may have been trying, apparently in vain, to discredit me.’

Review written by Steins of Daniel Racine’s “Leon-Gontran Damas: L’Homme et L’oeuvre.” (Light blue paper).

• Dorignon, Camille (conservation et valorisation)
• Barlett, Nick (inventaire)

• Famille Steins
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