Correspondence between Tidwell and Davis about Dudley Randall's interview with Davis, comments on Tidwell's interview with Davis, essays about Davis, Sterling Brown, Alain Locke, Davis's critics, and in particular, Nick Aaron Ford, and Livin' the Blues. Also includes a program for "Afro-American Literature and Art in Hawaii" symposium with an inscription by Davis; transcripts of the Davis interview by Tidwell; edits of Tidwell's Davis interview by Callaloo editor; and a letter from Margaret Burroughs to Howard University Press about Livin' the Blues.