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This series contains Wynter's written works from the 1950s through the 2010s, including essays, conference talks, guest lectures, seminar lectures, book drafts, and other materials. Some of the writings included in this series are: "New Seville: the Conversion Experience of Bartolome de las Casas", "After the New Class: James, les damnes, and the Autonomy of Human Cognition", 1865: A Ballad for a Rebellion, "Lady Nugent's Journal", "We Must Learn to Sit Down Together and Talk About a Little Culture" (as the original essay and the later essay collection of the same title), "Jonkonnu in Jamaica", "The Ceremony Must Be Found", Do Not Call Us Negroes: How 'Multicultural' Textbooks Perpetuate Racism, "A New Model as Demonic Model", "After Man, Its Last Word", "The Ceremony Found", "Human Being as Noun?", and many other titles. There are also some drafts of Black Metamorphosis, in various iterations. The Wynter Papers do not include materials related to the writing of her novel The Hills of Hebron or the play Under the Sun; there are a few materials related to the writing of the play Maskarade.