August 15, 1966

Dear Mr. Ritz,

In answer to your letter inviting me to address The Friday Night Forum of Newark, I regret that I cannot take any speaking engagements this season. My being away so much lately in Africa and Europe has thrown me so far behind in contracted literary work to be finished here, that I am unable to do anything other than stick to my desk for the next several months. But I am most grateful to you for thinking of me.

August 19, 1964

Dear Langston;

So many years have passed since we
last met that you may have even forgotten
my name. Anyway this is Sid Friedlander of
Central High, West Africa, Florida etc. etc.

My special reason for writing at this time
is to try to arrange a date to meet you
with my two sons. Both have been involved
to some degree in SNIIC and for one of them
at least your name is like some glorious
legend, so far we have come from The Belfry
Owl and Central High School!

We have just recently moved into
Manhattan in the Franklin Plaza project
not far from where you live. I am staying there alone till the first of the month when
the family is moving down from Schenectady
where the boys were born and brought up.
New York and East Harlem will be a new
experience for them and, I am sure, a very
important one.

If you can find the time sometime during
the first two weeks of Sept. before the boys
go back to school, perhaps we could arrange
to meet. In any case it would be good to
hear from you.

My work is in the evening but you could
call me during the day any time before 3:30
or drop me a line. The phone number here
is 534-4055, the address 334 E. 108 St.
Apt. 20A.

CHARLES FRIEDMAN

14 EAST 66 STREET
NEW YORK 21, N. Y.

April 20, 1947

Dear Langston,

Both Victoria and I are grateful
to you for "Fields of Wonder". We haven't
read them yet (just got home) but we will,
sitting arm in arm, or opposite each other,
I reading to her or she to me, as we did
your other x two books.

We are back only about four days.
All in all we were away about two months:
a lot of it in Florida, a lot of it in Cuba.
We hated to leave the sunshine and the ease
but then we liked getting back to responsi-
bilities too.

I suppose you are as depressed
about the business "Street Scene" is doing
as I am. But then I guess we ought to be
thankful for whatever favor we did enjoy,
after what happened to us in Philadelphia.
Do write us again, wont you? By then we
will want to talk to you about your poems.

Charlie

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November 3, 1950

Mr. Langston Hughes
Broadhurst Theatre
235 West 44th Street
New York, New York

Dear Langston:

I saw "The Barrier" last night and
I want to congratulate you on a brilliant job. As
you know I am involved in television at the moment,
and right in the midst of a heavy schedule, so I
couldn't drop backstage to say Hello to you.

Please call me when you are in this
part of town - perhaps we can have lunch.

CHARLES FRIEDMAN

CF:tl

2714 Wallace Ave.
Bronx 67, N. Y.

November 28, 1963

Dear Mr. Hughes

This is just a short note of thanks for sending me your
book The First Book of Rhythm. I thought it was very nice of
you for sending me the book. I liked the autograph and book
very much, and hold them as my prize possessions. I read the
book and enjoyed it very much, it helped me very much in my
school work.

Thank you again

P.S. This letter was typed for me by my brother because my
handwriting is very poor, I am only nine years old.

9720 Kings Highway
Brooklyn 12, New York

April 10, 1953

Mr. Hughes Langshon
c/o Alfred A. Knopf
501 Macleson Avenue
New York, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Langshon:

I am writing to you in the hope that you will consent to help
me with my work on the late Sinclair Lewis.

Recently I assisted in editing THE MAN FROM MAIN STREET, a selection of Lewis' nonfiction writings; and now I am collecting material for a biography of the Red Indian from Sauk Centre.

Your recollections of the man and his work would be invaluable. Any bit of information or anecdote you could contribute to illuminate his personality, his opinions and attitudes would be deeply appreciated.

April 17, 1953

Mr. Philip Allan Friedman
9720 Kings Highway
Brooklyn 12, New York

Dear Mr. Friedman,

My memories of Sinclair Lewis are, I'm afraid, rather scanty, since I believe that I met him only twice. Once in preparing to write "Kingsblood Royal", he invited me to dinner with him at the Algonquin, and I gave him what little information I could that I thought might be helpful to him. The other meeting was on a train between New York and Washington where we talked most of the way to Washington, but I'm not at all sure about what we talked about. However, if you would like to talk with me about either of these meetings, I would be happy to see you sometime and try to recollect what I can in conversation with you, as that would be easier for me than trying to write it out.

Late afternoons or evenings are usually best for me. My address is at above, and my telephone number is ATwater 9-9852, after three P.M.

LH:rh

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March 22, 1938

Mr. Rex Pitkin
Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
125 West 45 Street
New York, N.Y.

My dear Mr. Pitkin,

Mr. Hughes has asked me to advise you
that he is sorry but he has had to leave
to him on a lecture tour; therefore, he can-
not write the article for you as he had
hoped to.

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February 6, 1967

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 127 Street
New York, New York 10035

Dear Langston:

We are now moving into the more concrete area
of definitely scheduling the various programs we are building
around the dedication of our new Plainfield Public Library,
and we hope very much that you will be able to be with us on
Sunday afternoon, October 29.

Everyone is really thrilled (sounds juvenile, but
it is really the best word for us to use) at the possibility
of your being here and reading your poetry, and we do hope you
will say yes to us, definitely, though I know it's far off.
On the other hand, it will be here before we know it, and we
really can't put off scheduling events much longer.

When you write me, would you also be kind enough
to let me know about your fee? I am in the process of setting
up a budget, and this would be helpful. We'll pay your trans-
portation to and from NYCity, but we of course want to pay you
an honorarium too out of our rather limited funds, as I wrote
you December 19.

I hope you are well. I know you are busy! But
I do look forward to hearing from you.

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August 9, 1958

Dear Dr. Fritchman:

Thank you very much for your kind letter
letting me know that you like, SIMPLES ATAKES
A CLAIM and that you have been reading portions
of it aloud to Unitarian groups. I am happy
indeed to have such use made of my work.

I expect to be in Los Angeles, very briefly
in October, but I shall return to the Coast
again in December, and during that month it
is possible that I might be able to come to
your church. If so, I will let you know in
advance. Certainly I remember a very pleasant
experience reading my poems there some years
ago.

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First Unitarian Church
2936 West Eighth Street
Los Angeles 5, Calif.

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