January 14, 1963

N.C.T.E.
508 South Sixth Street
Champaign, Illinois

Gentlemen:

Would you please be so kind as to
send me a copy of your 21-page booklet, "The
Student's Right to Read," which I understand
you have recently published.

Thanks much.

LH:r

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 - East 127th St
New York City, N.Y.

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May 31st 1955.

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On lecture tour,
Jackson College,
Jackson, Mississippi,
November 1, 1952.

Miss Vicki Garvin,
N. Y. N. L. C.,
53 West 125th Street,
New York 27, N. Y.

Dear Miss Garvin,

Thank you so very much for your kind letter of a few
weeks ago which was forwarded to me while on lecture tour
here in the Deep South. Forgive me for not answering
sooner, but one is kept so busy on these college campuses
that there does not seem to be a free moment.

Also I had previously received an invitation from Cleveland
to speak at the Convention, which I answered before I left
New York, regretting that I could not be present. I will be
speaking in North Carolina that week-end. But again let me
express my regrets at not being able to accept your kind
invitation. This time in the Fall and again in February (the
Negro History Week period) are my busiest lecture months, and
are usually booked up well ahead.

As for writing a poem along about now---it is almost impossi-
ble even to write a letter a letter while on tour---teachers
and students and aspiring young writers with manuscripts keep
one so occupied from the moment you get off the train. I'll
be back in New York for a few days only before hitting the road
again, and those days are taken with programs and radio inter-
views for my new little book of Negro history for young folks,
"The First Book of Negroes" which came out last week.

But certainly I send all my good wishes for the success of the
Second Annual Convention.

AFTER FIVE DAYS RETURN TO

Mrs. Mabel L. Neely
116-10th Avenue North
Birmingham 4, Alabama

Mr. Langston Hughes
Atlanta University
Atlanta, Georgia

NACIREMA CLUB, INC.

6118 Thirtieth Street Telephone Tyler 4-8837

Detroit, Mich.

14th March, 1939

Mr. Langston Hughes
1379 E. Washington Boulevard
Los Angeles, California

Dear Mr. Hughes:

We have just learned of your coming to Detroit on a speaking engagement, April the 9th, 1939, and in all probability will be here on the evening prior to your engagement.

We here at Nacirema Club have made it a practice, and a pleasurable one it has been, to entertain in some fashion, celebrities visiting our city. Accordingly, we would like to extend an invitation to you to be our guest on the evening of Saturday, April the 8th in a Stag dinner. Certainly we would consider ourselves honored to have you accept.

I might add that I have conferred with the Sponsoring Committee of your coming to Detroit, in regard to this matter and received their permission to extend this invitation.

Perhaps a word or two about Nacirema. We are a gentlemen's club, designed for social purposes and civic benefits, and interested vitally in the Drama; hence, a two-fold interest in your coming. We have a member of one hundred and fifty representing the fine cross section of Detroit's vocational and political life. As a whole, we try to join in a very happy reception for you.

Please know that this is in no sense of the word the average commercial venture, but just an evening of fellowship among ourselves.

Please let me know if this is agreeable to you.

Looking forward with much hope of your acceptance, I beg to be

RJM/HMCK

January 24, 1963

Dear Mr. Naeem:

How very kind of you to send me an
autographed copy of your very handsome
AFRICA GUIDE, so full of up-to-date
information. Since I am often writing
or speaking about Africa, it will be most
useful to me. I am happy to have it, and
grateful to you indeed.

With cordial regards,

MRS. HARRY NAGER

2379 SO. TAYLOR ROAD
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS 18, OHIO

January 12, 1952.

Miss Ruth Nager,
2379 South Taylor Road,
Cleveland Heights 18, Ohio.

Dear Miss Nager,

Thank you very much for your kind invitation to
a Negro History Week party, but unfortunately I cannot accept.

My Cleveland program is the beginning of a long Negro History Week tour that takes me all the way to Florida and Texas in the space of ten days, so I have to take the first available train to Washington after my Folk Festival appearance. I hate to rush away from my old home town so soon.

Sincerely yours,

For The Program Notes
for
"LET US REMEMBER"

A cantata by Langston Hughes
and
David Amram

San Francisco Opera House, November 15, 1965

UNION OF AMERICAN HEBREW CONGREGATIONS 48th ASSEMBLY, SAN FRANCISCO

A NOTE FROM THE COMPOSER

Langston Hughes and I used the essence of the traditional Jewish prayer, "Yiskor", as a point of departure for our cantata. The central musical motif that ties the work together is the opening melody of section I, "Let The Song Be Not A Dirge", which appears in the following sections of the composition in various forms, and in different instrumental choirs, as well as in the chorus. For example, in section III, "Let Us Remember", it is used as the Cantus-Firmus for the entire movement. In addition to unifying the work musically, the restating of this melody stresses the outlook of the Hughes text as it relates to martyrdom generally and Jewish history in particular. But rather than being a dirge revealing in the unspeakable sufferings of the past, it is a hymn to the spiritual nobility of history's martyrs—and a song of hope for our future on earth.

---David Amram---

Sunday, May 4, 1952

Dear Langston,

This is the material I told you about on the phone,
I think it would be very good with guitar music background,
any guitar player should be willing and able to feel the
heat and warmth of the Puerto-Ricans expressed in the poem.
They are a warm-blooded group, interested in satisfying
their basic hungers.

I caught last nights, that's Saturday, A. S. P. prevue,
they are beginning to become monotonous, though they did
do a wonderful reading of the letters written by the
Rosenbergs to each other.

I'm glad you like the wine. An Italian best expresses
his friendship through wine and food, these he would give
up, and if he is an insane Italian, he would probably
give up his women for friendship, but this I doubt, knowing
the Italians.

P.S. To comercialize the material, because it may be to broad
in one or two, or a few spots (or maybe a many) I have
the writing all figured out.

March 10, 1966

Dear Enzio,

If you should leave before I get a chance
to see you, please send me your address
in Europe on the enclosed postcard since
I will be in France in the early summer.
I am leaving in about 10 days for six or
eight weeks in Africa, and will come from
there to Europe, so perhaps, I can see you
overseas. With cordial regards.

Sincerely,

P.S. My telephone number (private) is:
LE 4-7739.

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Langston Hughes
20 East 127 Street
New York, N. Y. 10035

February 1, 1967

Dear Enzio:

That's a beautiful calendar you've
sent me! And it arrived on my Birthday
today. Thanks a lot.

So you're back overseas again.
My former after-school helper, Luhs Velez,
now in the services, is in Germany, too.
APO, NY, 09801, in case he's near you.
Nice chap. But he didn't tell me what city
he is near.

I'm about to go to California for
some programs at UCLA---which is good,
because it is COLD here. Otherwise, I'm
still hard at writing, but no new plays
lately.

Write your news when you have time.

Cordial regards,

Sincerely,

1

PLAYWRIGHTS' WORKSHOP

Playwrights' Workshop exists to give the
apprentice playwright the opportunity of seeing
his play exist in the only form a play can exist:
in performance by actors on a stage before an
audience. This is a painful but highly reward-
ing experience for the playwright. The value
of this experience is extended with the help
of the audience members' written critiques.
You, the audience, are an integral part of
Playwrights' Workshop.

The three plays presented tonight amply
demonstrate the fact that we do not limit
ourselves to one type of play or even to plays
written for one kind of audience. Tonight,
you will see a fantasy-comedy written for an
audience of young people, a tragedy written
after tradition of ancient Greece, and a serious
play in the tradition of modern realism.

W.S.

April 15, 1961

Dear Mr. Nasirudin:

I believe I promised to let you
know when the Afro-American jazz record
for which I did the Liner Notes and lyrics
came out. It is now in the shops: AFRO-
PERCUSSION---UHUKU AFRIKA (Freedom Africa)
by Randy Weston and Musicians---Roulette
Records, Inc., LP.

Also my anthology AN AFRICAN TREASURY
(Crown, $3.50) is just published in paper
back at 50¢ (Pyramid Books). It has also
been published in London and Paris this
Spring.

Incidentally, I will be reading some
of my poems in Philadelphia on Sunday,
May 21st, at the Guild Tea of Greater Saint
Matthew Independent Church at 5 P. M.
Perhaps I will have the pleasure of meeting
you then.

With cordial regards,