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July 13, 1948.

Miss Geraldine Udell
POETRY
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Chicago, Illinois.

Dear Miss Udell:

As I intimated in a note to you a few days ago, Mr. Arna Bontemps and I are assembling a large anthology of Negro poetry for Doubleday, with tributary poems by non-Negroes and including a Caribbean section. It has just occurred to us, in connection with this last section, that the poetry of most of the Jamaican, Barbadians, and other British West Indians is almost unknown in the United States. Do you think that POETRY would be interested in considering some of the material we have gathered from this source with a view to possible use in the magazine?

I remember how much interest your Latin-American issue attracted, and I think that the group of countries to which I refer here was not represented. Is this something you would like to explore a little further?

With kindest regards,

P.S. Thank you very much for the biographical information about Alice Corbin

LH:nvw

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May 15, 1961

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August 16, 1961

Dear Miss Wright:

Thank you very much for sending me the copyright releases. The fact that you sent them all will be helpful to the Librarian at Benmidji College who is making a complete bibliography of my published work, so I shall send him the listing.

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