Documents relating to the preparation, publication, and reception of Livin' the Blues: Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet. Includes correspondence with Beth Charlton about the quotation of Davis materials; royalties statements; photocopies of Davis records from Friends University; a newspaper clipping from Tidwell's visiting scholarship at Kansas State University; and a memorandum of agreement with the University of Wisconsin Press for Livin' the Blues. Also includes the publication agreement for Black Moods and the contract for publication of Tidwell's book The Critical Realism of Sterling A. Brown.