Louis Adamic
Grosuplje,
Slovenia, Yugoslavia.

Aug. 10, 1932

Dear Langston Hughes:

I'm spending a few months in my native Yugoslavia and find
here intense interest in Negro poetry, especially yours. I helped
one of the young poets to translate several, including two of yours.
I hope you don't mind. The payment is so small that it isn't worth
sending it to you. But the translator, Mile Klopčić, hopes to get
out a collection of Negro poetry in Yugoslav translation; if he
succeeds, there will be some money for the original authors.
Please let me or Mr. Klopčić know if this is all right with you.
Klopčić admires you all immensely and is crazy to have a letter from
you and Cullen and McKay and Brown. I haven't enough copies to
send one to each of you, and wonder if you'd be so good as to
speak or communicate with the others; expect Johnson, to whom I'm
writing. Also, I don't know what the others' addresses are.

Mile Klopčić's address is: Alesovčeva 40, Šiška, Ljubljana,
Yugoslavia. Please do write to him. He has your Weary Blues,
not your other books.

Dear Langston Hughes: I hope this is OK.
Adamic

1058 Morris Ave., New York,

December 3, 1934

Consul General of Haiti,
90 Broad St., New York.

Dear Sir:

I am informed that Haiti's foremost poet and novelist, Jacques Romain, has recently been sentenced to two years' imprisonment at Port-au-Prince for circulating the French-language magazine of Negro liberation, Cri des Negres. As one of M. Romain's fellow writers in this western hemisphere, and as one who feels close to his ideas, I take this means of protesting to you against your government's action aimed -- evidently -- to silence and otherwise frustrate one of the few upper-class Haitian intellectuals who understands and sympathizes with the plight of the oppressed peasants and workers of his country, and who has attempted to write about and remedy the pitiful conditions of a majority of the Haitian people exploited by the coffee monopolies and the manipulations of foreign finance.

I am, Sir,