March 29

1949

Miss Busebia Cosme
139 West 47th Street
New York, New York

Dear Busebia:

Nicolas Guillen is in town at the Hotel Governor Clinton, 7th Ave., at 31st Street, Room 420 (Phone PE 6-3400), and would love to see you.

I flew back from Chicago for a few days for the re-hearsals of TROUBLED ISLAND, but have to return there tonight. I am poet in residence at the University of Chicago. TROUBLED ISLAND is my opera about Haiti, with music by William Grant Still and will be performed at the New York City Center on March 31, April 10, and May 1. I hope you can see it.

All my good wishes to you.

LH:HHS

October 22, 1966

Dear Eusebia:

Rene Marques, the Puerto Rican
playwright, is in town for the casting
of his play, OX CART (La Caretera) at
the Greenwich Mews Theatre, 175 West 14th
Street (CH. 3-6800) with Lloyd Richardson
directing. I gave them your name as a
possibility for one of the good roles in
the play for which I hear you might be
suitable.

THE WORLD OF MY AMERICA playing there
weekends and using a lot of my poems, you
might like to see. If so, simply ask for
tickets at the box office as my guest on
Saturday evening or Sunday afternoon.

Best ever to you,

Sincerely,

I'm just recently back from a summer in
Africa and Paris.

November 17, 1956

Miss Eusebia Coane,
139 West 47th Street,
New York 36, N. Y.

Dear Eusebia,

Wonderful that you are giving another program at Town Hall! But last time I will not be in New York in December to see and hear you, as I am going to California around the first of the month. So siento mucho. But I will tell all my friends about your program before I go away.

And enclosed is a good New York mailing list of people, many of whom might like to see you. I suggest you ask your sponsors to send them announcements.

Also be sure to send an announcement to:
Mr. Art D'lugoff,
Festival Productions,
34 West 53rd Street,
New York City.

He is the impressario interested in arranging a Caribbean evening at Hunter College, and I have told him about you.

This week I am BUSY with publicity and promotion and radio interviews on my two new books, I WONDER AS I WANDER, in which there's a lot about Guillen, and PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE NEGRO IN AMERICA coming out today, November 19th.

Best of good wishes to you ever,

Sincerely,