Baldwin’s unpublished novel fed directly into his Price of the Ticket essay.

Evidence

Actually, Carole handed it to me and said it was a first draft of the introductory essay to The Price of the Ticket. I remember reading the essay as I walked down Nassau Street with my mouth wide open when I realized what I had in my hands. The essay contains elements of Baldwin’s unpublished novel, No Papers for Muhammad, and clearly shows his engagement with modernist themes (hence my repeated references to T. S. Eliot). — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 624

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: tracking how unpublished Baldwin manuscripts bled into his published canon — the hidden connective tissue of the archive.
• QUESTION: What, concretely, from No Papers for Muhammad appears in the essay? Glaude tantalizes without specifying.