Marshall
407 Central Park West
N.Y. 25, N.Y.

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 127th St.
New York 35, N.Y.

November 5, 1959

Dear Pauls:

At the P.E.M. Club meeting today I learned that STORY MAGAZINE is starting up again, pays modestly, so if you have any short stories around you might wish to submit they can be sent directly to the editor:

Mrs. Hallie Burnett,
135 Central Park West,
New York 23, N. Y.

And this quarterly (good, but I don't believe pays) also wants material:

THE LITERARY REVIEW,
Fairleigh Dickinson University,
Teaneck, New Jersey.

And here are some lists that might be useful to you. It doesn't look as if I'll be able to make it by your house until I get back from Trinidad. Time always outruns me!

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Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 127th St
NYC

June 28, 1964

Dear Langston,

In re our telephone conversation the only
passage in Brown Girl that is fairly humorous
and which could be lifted out on its own would
be perhaps the portion pg. 67-68 where the mothers
talk about their children, beginning with the fifth
paragraph down on page 67: "Dear-heart..." and con-
cluding with paragraph on page 68 which begins
"Never mind that. They want licks!..." A brief
explanatory note could serve to introduce it, some-
thing like: "Barbadian Mothers in Brooklyn discussing
their first generation children."

Also, the only other American Negro writer who
comes to mind immediately as someone whose writing
is rich in humor is Alston Anderson in his book
"Lover Man."

All the best.

[NEW YORK]

April 4, 1967

[PAUL MARSHALL]

Dear Lang,

How thoughtful of you to send along the
biographical sketch of you in Springboards.
I loved that rakish picture of you in Russia.
Thanks also for the poems you sent sometime
back entitled *THE BACKLASH BLUES AND BITTER
BREW*. I wish I were as prolific and many-
faceted and could send you little choice bits
from time to time, but all I have to show for
four years work is 600 odd pages of endlessly
rewritten, blue-pencilled manuscript (still
unfinished and unpublished)--and I know you
don't want to see that.

You must forgive me for not being in
touch these days, but in addition to keeping
close to the typewriter (I'm determined to
finish this year--I know, I said that last
year too), I have been somewhat at a low be-
cause of certain setbacks of an amorous nature.
A good man is hard to find, somebody said and
it's no lie. But hopefully, I will come round
soon and we shall have our usual long chat over
the phone. Sandy called by the way to say that
you and he were on a radio program and that a
kind word was said for my story in your collec-
tion. Bone gave me short shrift in his review,
didn't he, but then I suspect that Bone only
really likes Albert Murray and Ralph Ellison
out of all the black writers. Anyway, see you
soon.

Laur
Paula