Ishmael Reed
261 west. 21st Street Apt. 27
New York New York

do you have nov. issue
of Diplomat mag. article by
Leroi Jones on Poetry ?
if not let me know will
zerox & send on to you

1790/1965

Bureau of the Census

U.S. Postage

4c

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

dear Langston Hughes /

regarding feedback from Maxes' Kansas
City (Rattners' north ?) like Muhammed Ali
has said!.... sting like a bee'. Better than
zola is milder than roi who in Diplomat mag
azine put down everybody from Chaucer to Barth.
i mean heaps & heaps of corpses smoking after

he got done. im a grey lady compared to him.
any way happy new year. be seeing you real soon.