[ANNE SPENSER]

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LANGSTON HUGHES

20 EAST 127TH STREET
NEW YORK 35, N. Y.

February 26, 1965

Dear Poet or Publisher:

I have been asked to compile an anthology of American Negro poetry to be published in French by Editions Seghers in Paris under the title of ANTHOLOGIE DE LA POESIE NEGRO-AMERICAINE: 1770-1965. Inclusion of representative poets from Phyllis Wheatley to the most interesting of our younger writers today will, I hope, make this anthology a new, rich and stimulating experience for readers abroad. I would very much like your permission to include the poems listed below. If you do not control the rights, please be so kind as to pass this communication on to the person or publisher who does. Editions Seghers will of course give appropriate credit, if you will indicate below how you would like that credit to read. Since the anthology will be a small but attractively made book published at the lowest possible price so as to reach a wide overseas market (including students) the budget is necessarily limited. But if you will grant Editions Seghers permission for the use of your poetry therein (leaving you free of course to publish it elsewhere as you wish) you will be paid on publication date the sum of $12.00 and two copies of the anthology will be sent you.

I would very much appreciate your prompt attention to this matter by the return to me soon of the form below.

Poetry:

Anne Spencer

AT THE CARNIVAL

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

Dear Mr. Hughes:

I control the rights to AT THE CARNIVAL

which I understand you wish to include in your ANTHOLOGIE DE LA POESIE AMERICAINE to be published by Editions Seghers, Paris. I hereby grant you permission to include this material to be translated into French, the credits to read as follows:

and for which I will accept the fee you offer. This permission covers distribution in France and the French-speaking market throughout the world.