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~~% Langston Hughes~~
Eugene A. Knapp
780 4th Avenue
New York City

~~10 Harper~~
634 St. Nicholas Ave

STATION

c/o Langston Hughes.
Dr. T. B. Harper.
634 St. Nicholas Ave.
Harlem, N.Y.

62274 De Longpre Avenue
Hollywood 28, California

May 28, 1946

My Dear Langston:

Your aunt 'phoned me - she's very sweet
and I hope I see her before she leaves.

I'm sending you the manuscript. I'm so
mad that it is not better, but I guess it couldn't be since I'm
not a writer and I was unable to organize the material. I
think I told you that this was the criticism of all the publish-
ers who saw it.

I really wanted to show, with the exper-
iences of my life, that the nationality of man is really unim-
portant. Well - in other words - socialism. But I did not
want to write a political tract, consequently I got nothing!

I think that I could add a little to the
book since my discovery of California, but I'm lazy, and I don't
think it would help much anyway. Read it and tell me what to
do about it. Please don't send it back, I want to try a few
more publishers before I give the whole thing up.

This problem of breaking up the race
attitudes of people in this country is certainly a tough one. I
must say that I succeed in throwing them into confusion, and I
suppose that that is as far as I'll get - until the basic pat-
tern is broken.

We've had a hectic week with Simonev in
Hollywood, he has been really wonderful, he is able to speak
about the most serious things in an entertaining and poetic way.
All the Hollywood people felt obliged to speak politically, and
how dull they were, Simonev always spoke as an artist, his pol-
itics are so much a part of him that he doesn't have to talk
about them. (Leyda dreams that this will happen to me some day!)

I'm so glad you met Brian, I think he has
quite a brilliant mind, whether or not he is able to do anything
with it remains to be seen.

Yone and Jack have left Moscow for Shanghai.
I am trying to persuade them to come here - after the terrible
time they both had during the war I'd love them to come and en-
joy California with us. I'm crazy about the desert - never
thought that sand and mountains and heat would appeal to me, but
it does.

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