Anderson & Ritchie

1936 HYPERION AVENUE • LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

NORMANDY I-1144

THE
WARD RITCHIE
PRESS

April
2
19 48

Mr. Langston Hughes
The Clark Hotel
1824 So. Central Ave.
Los Angeles, California

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Would it be possible for me
to see you for a few minutes either
Sunday or Monday, at your convenience,
on a matter of business? Our firm is
hoping to print a limited edition,
possibly of 1000 copies, of an article
by Walter White, which appeared last
October in the "Saturday Review of
Literature".

If this is possible, we are
very anxious to have you write an
introduction to the book, if you would
be willing. I should like to show
you the article and discuss it with
you personally, if you can find the
time and would be kind enough to see me.

I will call you at the Hotel,
on the telephone, Sunday and see if you
can set a time.

CBA:SS

Anderson & Ritchie

NORMANDY I-1144

April 19, 1948

Mr. Langston Hughes
Hollow Hills Farm
Monterey, California

Dear Mr. Hughes:

I am enclosing a letter from Mr. Walter White and am glad you warned me of this possibility. We are still interested in printing something of yours at the present time, if you would care to have us. We should also like any suggestions from you, as to any other recent writing which might be along the line of Mr. White's article.

When you return to Los Angeles and
have the time, will you be kind enough to call
me and perhaps we can talk this over.

CBA:SS
Enc.

Anderson & Ritchie

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June 30, 1948

Mr. Langston Hughes
634 St. Nicholas Avenue
New York 30, New York

Dear Mr. Hughes:

The five of us, who are interested in
printing Nicholas Guillen's poetry, have read
it and are now ready to make some arrangements
with you. I wasn't sure from your letter,
whether you are handling the manuscript your-
self or whether you want us to write directly
to your agent.

Our plan is to make this a very fine
book, completely hand-set and hand-bound, in
an edition of 250 copies. We could sell the
book for $3.00 and return 15% royalty to you
(or would it be to the author?) and still
make our costs.

As I mentioned to you, this would be
one of our own non-profit, cooperative projects,
in which we give all our time. It might be well
to send out a prospectus in advance, so that we
could print more than 250, if the demand should
be larger. Do you have any mailing lists, or
would you have access to those of "New Directions"
or any groups interested in contemporary poetry?

Would it be possible for you to con-
dense the introduction (or rewrite it) so that
it would not be more than one page? I notice
that it was written in 1945 and possibly some
of the material in it has now been printed else-
where. Also, since we are setting this by hand,

Anderson & Ritchie

1932 HYPERION AVENUE • LOS ANGELES 27, CALIFORNIA

PLEASE NOTE NEW ADDRESS:

20 East 127th Street,
New York 35, New York,
August 9, 1948.

Mrs. Gregg S. Anderson,
Anderson & Ritchie,
1932 Hyperion Avenue,
Los Angeles 27, California.

Dear Mrs. Anderson,

Well, the biggest of my dead-lines has been met: that
of the Doubleday anthology, THE POETRY OF THE NEGRO, which has been
turned in in its entirety last week-end. Except for having to move
at the very peak and a summer radio script to do, all is calm again,
and I am able to turn my attention to the Guillen translations with
a creative mind. (The radio show is a "pure entertainment" job---
SWING TIME AT THE SAVOY, NBC, Wednesdays at 8 P.M. New York Daylight
Time.)

In looking through the new Guillen book, EL SON ENTERO,
(which is evidently his "selected" works, not his "collected" works
as it states on the jacket---since a number of his poems in other
and earlier books are not included) I find that he has made quite a
few little revisions and changes---a la Walt Whitman who revised
until he died---so if all of our translations do not match the poems
in EL SON ENTERO, that is why. But I have caught and changed in our
book a number of the Guillen changes.

I have also made some revisions of my own for the better
and am having the poems copied now to air mail to you, perhaps a few
hours after this letter is posted. Kindly use the new versions and
discard the corresponding pages in the manuscript you now have.

To save recopying so many pages, I am sending you a list of
minor revisions or single word changes. Would you be so kind as to
insert these on your manuscript? Also some new title pages, etc. coming.

Was the shortened Foreword O.K.? Or would you like it still
shorter, perhaps using some of the material on the dust jacket?

I am sending you revised and better versions of both BALLAD
OF THE WATER DEMON and SENSEMAYA. And I don't think we had better leave
them out as they among Guillen's most famous poems throughout Latin
America, recited in the big theatres as they are by both Berta Singemann
and Eusebia Cosme, famous and popular "recitadoras"---because the art
of the recitation is still a favorite form of amusement with our Latin
neighbors. Since the section is so short, though, we can place them in
another section, which I will do, and send you the new order along with
the new versions.

As soon as I get these things off to you, I'll put together
the address list.

The Spanish titles of each poem, by the way, should not be
in caps as on the manuscript, should they? I think better in italics,
and in parenthesis as they now are. But, of course, the format and
the styling of the book is entirely up to you. In Spanish the accents
are not used over caps, but if we italicise the titles, I think we
would have to be careful to get all the accent marks in right. So let
me know. (In most cases you can check with EL SON ENTERO which I am
going to lend you by post so on---unless you'd like to own a copy of
your own, in which case it can be ordered from Brentano's, $4.00 plus
postage.)

Tomorrow, too, I'll choose three more poems to make our fifty
we are allowed by contract.

The reason for that Cuban agreement being that way is that in
Latin America (with the possible exception of Rio and Buenos Aires)
writers usually have to pay for the printing of their own books. Or
famous, if they are VERY MUNDY/maybe a publisher (or printer) might put the
book out on the basis mentioned in the Guillen agreement---no money
to the author until the cost of publication is paid back! Writers
have a hard road to go down there. But I know Guillen (in fact his
representative so assured me when here last year) will be very pleased
with your royalty arrangement. He is a very amiable fellow who does
not expect to make a living from poetry anyhow. Neither do I.

The next mail or so should bring you the poems, lists, etc.

My continued good wishes,

Sincerely,

Langston Hughes

20 East 127th Street,
New York 35, New York,
August 23, 1948.

Dear Mrs. Anderson,

Under separate cover I am sending you today
by air the following material for our Guillen book:

Three new poems from the hitherto unpublished section
in his new book, EL SON ENTERO:

SWEAT AND LASH
DOWN THE ROAD
LITTLE SONG FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE ANTILLES

page numbered to indicate where they go in the manuscript---
for example, SWEAT AND LASH---25-a, follows page 25.

A new listing of the table of CONTENTS including all the
changes and insertions, without page numbers, as you will have
to do that anyway on the proofs. Also a new list of his books.

A new revised version of FEDERICO, after careful comparision
with two other English translations that I have: Nancy Cunard
and Lloyd Mallan's, and a checking with a Spanish friend to be
sure that ours is as correct as possible.

This section, FEDERICO, is from a much longer poem, "ESPANA, etc..." as indicated at the top of our excerpt. In re-reading the entire poem both in the original and in the Nancy Cunard translation, I think we have the very best part, and I would not advise including any more of the poem since it is about the Civil War in Spain and parts of it are now definitely dated. The Lora portion that we have is of most interest to poetry lovers, I believe, as Lora's name has become widely known in recent years as modern Spain's greatest poet.

Therefore, I would now call our book complete. The three new poems
make the fifty that we are allowed by contract and, I think, quite
a large enough book for a book of poems, containing as it does the
best and most famous of the Guillen verses.

Would you let me know if you received the material sent you by air
on August 9th, also my letter of that date? And is all going well
with the preparations of the book?

The Doubleday anthology, THE POETRY OF THE NEGRO, has gone to press,
gracias a dios! Now I start work on a libretto for a one-act opera.
But & ortly I'll send you the address list for promotion.

Sincerely,

20 East 127th Street,
New York 35, New York,
August 28, 1948.

Dear Mrs. Anderson,

I am posting you today under separate cover my
personal address list from 1946 up to date for the sending
of announcements regarding our Guillen book. Kindly return
it to me when you have finished with it.

You probably have thought of this, too: that we
send announcements to all LIBRARIES, and to the heads of the
Romance Language, Spanish, and English Departments at all
COLLEGES. Also, of course, all COLLEGE LIBRARIES.

For the Negro colleges, a complete list may be found
in Table 21, page 85, of THE NEGRO YEAR BOOK, 1947 (Tuskegee)
which I am sure would be in the Public Library there.

I am also asking my collaborator to send you his
personal address list. His address, in case you should ever
have occasion to write him, is:

Mr. Ben F. Carruthers,
306 West 4th Street,
New York, New York.

When the book is ready, I should like to have twenty
(20) copies, if I may, for which I will send my check—at the
author's discount (if there is an author's discount) or at the
regular rate. (I love to give away books!)

Please let me know if you received the additional
three poems, etc. which I air-mailed you a few days ago.

With my continued good wishes to you,

20 East 127th Street,
New York 35, New York,
August 30, 1948.

Mrs. Gregg B. Anderson,
Anderson & Ritchie,
1932 Hyperion Avenue,
Los Angeles 27, California.

Dear Mrs. Anderson,

I was delighted to have your letter saying that you have received all the material. The lists, too, you should have by now, as they were mailed to you last weekend. Please be so kind as to return these to me when you have your envelopes addressed.

Also when your prospectus is ready, please send me a couple of hundred or so, maybe 250, as as I have to answer about that many letters a month, sometimes more. And I can also use some for personal friends whose addresses I didn't put on the list.

I'm quite willing to try a prospectus note for you (which of course you may revise or change). I imagine about a page would be enough.

You didn't tell me if the shortened FOREWORD was O.K. or not? Or if you'd prefer some of the material on the dust jacket? Or if you would like it even shorter.

Certainly, you may leave out the Spanish titles of the poems, if you choose. We were originally thinking of a university press as a possible publishers, so I reckon we put them there for academic purposes to help students find the originals quickly (in case their Spanish was only school-bookish and they couldn't otherwise identify the poems in the original language.) But we don't need them in our edition.

I am lending you ELSON ENTERPRISE. Kindly send it back after awhile. (Don't believe the blurb---it is NOT his complete collected poems as several from his early books are missing, including some we are using. The dust jacket should read, "Selected Poems").

2nd lines

MY GAL on page 14: 1st and of 3rd verse is one long line. Also I'm making a slight change in last line of that verse. So please correct third verse to read thus:

> If they come to take her dancing,
> or out to eat,
> she's bound to take me,
> else bring me something.

Sincerely,

P.S. Also that note after the poem on Page 15, regarding the Afro-Creole word that is the title, could be placed at the top of the poem, just below the title and indented toward right margin, italized, thus:

## CURUJEY

Curujey: a plant used
by the superstitious
for curative purposes.

I want me a doctor-sweetie
dat kin cure me good,......etc.

just as is the note before the poem on Page 34, or on Page 77.

Also, by the way, on Page 77, ALL the poems in that section
MMM constitute the Fourth Anguish, or 4th section of the poem
ESPAÑA. So I think we are listing it wrong in the Table of
Contents as I now have it.. It should be listed ONLY as:

## FEDERICO

The Fourth Anguish.........P7

and that's all, omitting a listing of "Moment With The Muse
of Garcia Lorca", since that is merely a section of the longer
and complete section, and is simply a subtitle like, **FEDERICO**,
**A SONG**, and **ANOTHER SONG**. (I should have corrected this before.

But will you please change the indexing now, so that we list
only the one title under the section, FEDERICO?) Gracias!

Everything gets straightened out in due time, if one just keeps
at it!

L. H.

20 East 127th Street,
New York 35, New York,
September 29, 1948.

Mrs. Gregg Anderson,
Anderson & Ritchie,
1936 Hyperion Avenue,
Los Angeles 27,
California.

Dear Mrs. Anderson,

The proofs are BEAUTIFUL! I am return-
ing one set to you today by air so you should certainly have
them before Saturday.

I notice that you have changed the order
of poems about in the CUBAN BLUES section, which is O.K.----
except that I would not start the book with, "Last Night
Somebody Called Me Darky". Some colored people (especially
"intellectuals") are often over-sensitive about the word "darky",
and since I would expect this book to have a certain sales
appeal to Negro colleges and libraries, I don't believe it
would be wise to start the volume right off the bat with this
particular poem. In fact, I request you, PLEASE DON'T. I
have made a slight rearrangement, as you will note, putting
"Don'T Knon No English" first. (I have gone through this
minority sensitiveness with my own poetry and know it can
affect sales if not tactfully handled.)

Other than renumbering the first three
pages, I have made only two changes on the proofs. The Yes
in "Don't Know No English" should have been italized from
the beginning to match the strike one, etc. And the last
line of "Thick-Lipped Cullud Boy" always worried me. I think
"she's givin' all you want." clarifies it---as that is what it
really means, so I've added two words.

I notice my collaborator signs his Intro-
duction BEN FREDERIC CARRUTHERS. I think that is the way we
had better print his name wherever it appears on title pages and
in the book---so would kindly insert the FREDERIC where need be.

Also would you please send to both the poet
and to Mr. Carruthers a couple of dozen or so copies of the pros-
pectus as I know they'd like to mail some to friends:

Sr. Nicolas Guillen,
Gervasio 528,
Havana, Cuba

I await the remainder of the proofs.

Sincerely yours,

20 East 127th Street,
New York 35, New York,
October 4, 1948.

Mrs. Gregg Anderson,
Anderson & Ritchie,
1932 Hyperion Avenue,
Los Angeles, California.

Dear Mrs. Anderson,

I am returning today under separate cover the 2nd
set of proofs.

Some of the titles are rather long. The three longest
ones, at least, can be shortened. So suppose we change it
to
LAST NIGHT SOMEBODY CALLED ME DARKY to:

SOMEBODY CALLED ME DARKY

and LITTLE ODE TO A CUBAN HUERD BOXER to:

LITTLE ODE

To a Cuban Negro Boxer

keeping the italizied subtitle beneath the poem's title on
the page with the poem, but omitting it from the List of IM
Contents. We could do the same thing with LITTLE SONG FOR
THE CHILDREN OF THE ANTILLES thus:

LITTLE SONG

For The Children Of The Antilles

using the remainder as a subtitle just above the poem. These
changes would cut down the three longest titles.

Sincerely,

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January 5, 1949

Mrs. Gregg B. Anderson
Anderson & Ritchie
1932 Hyperion Avenue
Los Angeles, California

Dear Mrs. Anderson:

Thank you very much for returning to me EL SON ENTERO,
which came today.

Also, thank you very much for the additional compli-
mentary copies which I have received of CUBA LIBRE,
and for my order which has now been completely filled.

Just today two copies of the book were sent to me from
Maryland to autograph, and I have run into three or four
people here in New York who tell me that they have re-
ceived copies that they have ordered --- all of which de-
lights me to know that somebody is buying our book.

I had a very nice letter from Dorothy Johnson in Los
Angeles saying that the women of the Allied Arts League
enjoyed very much your talk to them.

I was interviewed today by a representative of the book
section of THE NEW YORK STAR. Since she did not recall
that their office had received a review copy of CUBA
LIBRE, I gave her one of my copies.

Tomorrow my anthology, THE POETRY OF THE NEGRO, Double-
day, comes out, and they have arranged a number of radio
appearances and interviews. Whenever possible I shall talk
about CUBA LIBRE, as well as the anthology.

All my good wishes to you.

Sincerely,

LH:HHS

January 10, 1949

Dear Mrs. Anderson:

As I told you it would sometime ago, the Schomburg
Collection at the 135th Street Branch Library here sponsored a
poetry evening on January 7th, featuring Miss Eusebia Cosme, the
recitalist, Mr. Ben F. Carruthers and myself.

The evening seems to have been a complete success in
every way. It was well attended, and after the program I was able
to dispose of every single copy of CUBA LIBRE which I had, and
would have been able to sell more had I had them on hand at the
time.

Mr. Carruthers spoke of Guillen, his life and work and
times, and Miss Cosme was particularly excellent reading Guillen's
poetry all in costume. She, of course, recited in Spanish, but
this served only to flavor and enhance her delivery and the effective-
ness of Guillen's lines.

At any rate, I thought you would be happy to know how success-
ful an evening it was and how well received the book was by everyone.

Incidentally, would you be good enough to send me six (6)
more copies of CUBA LIBRE, billing me as per usual?

All my good wishes to you,

Anderson & Ritchie

Air Mail

February 1, 1949

Mrs. Gregg S. Anderson
Anderson & Ritchie
1932 Hyperion Avenue
Los Angeles, California

Dear Mrs. Anderson:

I am sorry that I do not know anything about Reverend Matei Makwei except that he is an unknown fan of mine who writes very interesting letters from Africa and who has recently sent me a very beautiful black monkey skin as a gift, as well as two books of African plays. His letters indicate that he is an intelligent fellow and possibly he might be able to locate some interesting writing for you on the Gold Coast. I have heard that there are some good young writers scattered up and down the West Coast of Africa but, unfortunately, my contacts there are very limited and I would not be able to tell you anything about African writing.

It would be nice if you would like to send him a complimentary copy of CUBA LIBRE since the British Colonies cannot export money now and so people cannot order books from abroad. Mr. Makwei writes for one of the local papers there so you might ask him to review the book for us in it.

I am about to take off on a ten-day southern lecture tour.

LH/NWV

March 15, 1949

Dear Mrs. Anderson,

Forgive me for not writing you sooner,
but settling down to my current job as "Poet in Residence"
here at the Lab School has taken every minute of my waking
day---which begins at seven in the morning! I'll be here
until May, except for flying over to New York for the World
Premiere of "Troubled Island", my opera at the New York City
Center on March 31st. Rehearsals are going well, I hear.

While I am in Chicago I think I can ar-
range a program where we might sell some of our books, so I
will let you know if that happens and place an order.

How is it going? I hope well. Reviews
of poetry are always slow, and of translations doubly so.
But the few reviews I've seen have been fine, so far.

Lots of good wishes,

Enclosure:
Ck. $21.00

International House 755,
1414 East 59th Street,
Chicago 37, Illinois,

May 6, 1949.

Dear Mrs. Anderson,

Could you send me right away six (6) copies of our CUBA LIBRE to the above address as I am appearing for a Writers Club here on the 15th and think I can dispose of them?

The current TIGER'S EYE gives our book a brief but quite nice mention.

My ten weeks as "Poet in Residence" at the University of Chicago's Laboratory School are drawing to a close. My Creative Writing kids have done some very nice work and the experience has been delightful---but WORK going to school at 8:30 each and every morning!

Best regards,

ALSO 6 POETRY OF NEGRO ordered from Bucklin Moon

5/6/49

April 17, 1950

Mrs. Gregg B. Anderson,
Ward Ritchie Press,
1932 Hyperion Avenue,
Los Angeles 27, California.

Dear Mrs. Anderson,

My new book, SIMPLE SPEAKS HIS MIND, Simon And Schuster, has just come
out, and I hope you have received the copy which I ordered sent you.
It has seemingly gotten off to a good start—some 12,000 before
publication.

How did our CUBA LIBRE go? Now that a year has passed since publication.
Would you send Maxim Lieber a report on it, as I believe it was to go
to him.

If you have many copies left in stock, let me know, and perhaps I can
give a talk somewhere and sell a number. One of the magazines has
asked me to a piece on Caribbean poésies, which I shall write shortly,
mentioning our book, of course.

I've been busy lately getting my new opera, "The Barrier", ready for
summer theatres. It had a successful ten day run at Columbia University, and is due to come to Broadway in the fall.

My continued good wishes to you, as ever,

Anderson & Ritchie

1932 HYPERION AVENUE • LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

NORMANDY I-II44

April 25, 1950

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

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Your new book, "Simple Speaks His
Mind" just arrived this morning. Many thanks for
sending it. I know we shall all enjoy it!

We have about 140 copies of "Cuba
Libre" on hand. It is still selling, though slowly.
If you would enjoy giving another one of your fine
lectures, it would probably remind the public that
the book is still available. I don't want you to
feel that you have to assume any responsibility for
this, but you have certainly proved an invaluable
"salesman".

In making up the report for Mr. Lieber,
I notice that we changed both the quantity and the
retail price of the book after the contract was
signed. Originally, the edition was to be limited to
250 copies, to be sold at $3.00. Fortunately, we
published 500 copies and made the retail price $3.50.
This was absolutely necessary, since the majority of
the books have been sold to book stores at a discount
of 40%. I am writing of this to Mr. Lieber before
sending him a check, so that he can indicate what
percentage he should be paid.

Good luck to your new Opera and to
your many other activities.

CBA:SS
Air Mail

December 7, 1951.

Dear Mrs. Anderson,

How very nice to have your letter! I found it awaiting me when I returned from a Book Week Tour of the Carolinas as far down as Savannah— where it was colder than New York. People were heading back North from Florida to get warm.

Sometime in the Spring I think I will be giving a talk on Caribbean poetry to one of the East Indian societies here in New York. If this happens, I'll be sending you an order for a dozen or so copies of CUBA LIBRE which I am sure we can dispose of there. Everyone who sees the book remarks about the beauty of its format. Certainly it is the loveliest looking book with which I have ever had anything to do.

I am glad that you like the Lores. They only printed a thousand and it is just about sold out already.

I certainly hope to get to California sometime in 1952, and I surely shall come to see you.

Happiest of Holiday wishes to you.

January 26, 1960

Dear Mrs. Anderson:

It's been a long time!
I hope all goes well with you, and that the
New Year started off, and will continue to
be a Happy New Year!

I hope that the very handsome
Nicolas Guillen book, CUBA LIBRE, is still
available. I've given away all but my last
copy, mostly to students or collectors. So
I would very much appreciate it if you would
order sent me:

100 CUBA LIBRE by Guillen

billing to me at the usual translator's dis-
count, and I will send you my check as soon
as I know the amount.

A year or so ago I did a
translation of some SELECTED POEMS of Gabriela
Mistral for the Indiana University Press. I
would love to send you a copy as a gift, if I
might, unless you already have it.

With cordial regards,