PRESIDENT
DANIEL GORDON

VICE PRESIDENT
RHODA WALTON

SECRETARY-TREASURER
SAMUEL FREIFELD

UNIVERSAL MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC.

THE WORLD OF FOLK MUSIC

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November 20, 1959

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 127th Street
New York 35, New York

Dear Langston:

Let me take this opportunity to give you a belated thanks for the book and
also a big, fat thanks for having sent one to my daughter.

Odetta and I were in New York earlier in the month but we were under the impression that you were basking in the island sun. Unfortunately, while we were there I suffered an acute sinus attack and had to be shipped back to Chicago on the train for surgery. Naturally, I managed to be in the hospital the day of the TV show; consequently I was not able to see it. I have been home for two days now and the doctor has insisted I remain in the house for another week or two (he needs the money).

I am sure that Odetta has not answered your last letter in reference to whom to contact regarding the possibility of her participating in the play. She has read it and I know that her general attitude was a positive one. She has given it to her manager to read. I do not know what his thinking is on the matter.

Odetta will return to New York on November 27th and remain there until December 11th. She will be staying at the Beekman Towers Hotel. On December 10th, as you probably know, she and Belafonte are doing a Revlon-CBS Spectacular. I hope we both get to see this one.

I look forward to seeing you the next chance I have to be in New York.

Warm regards.

DG:jf

P.S. Odetta is in Winnipeg at the moment for a concert. She will be returning over the weekend.

November 6, 1959

Dear Odetta:

Pamela Illot phoned me you're in town. So sorry I'll miss seeing you and Danny, as I'm flying to Trinidad in the morning for some programs there.

But I wish you'd put on a postal the name of your agent and address, as I think by the time I get back at the end of the month, the Theatre Guild will be about ready to begin casting of my TAMBOURINES TO GLORY, SO LET ME KNOW WHOM THEY SHOULD contact, please, since you're on my suggested casting list as a possibility for one of the two female leads---ESSIE, the good gospel singing woman who eventually cleanses the temple of evil. Revisions on the script are all finished, and the Guild is now in process of choosing a director. When that is settled they'll be about ready for casting.

Cordial regards, and thanks
for your nice note. Tell Danny I had a
sweet thank-you note from his little daugh-
ter, too, for the book that I sent her.

Sincerely,

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August 30, 1962

Mr. Danny Gordon,
Dandetta Productions,
Hollywood 69, California.

Dear Danny:

Thanks very much to Dandetta
Productions for sending me ODETTA AND
THE BLUES, which arrived while I was
away in Africa. It has the true Blues
flavor, and I am delighted at hearing
it......I hope we meet sometime when
you are in New York.