April 12, 1954

Raymond P. Alexander,
City Hall,
Philadelphia.

Dear Raymond,

Thank you very much for sending me
your excellent address given at Howard University
in March. Naturally, I am grateful to have been
mentioned therein.

You might be interested to know that
my book, "Simple Takes A Wife", has just received
the Anisfield-Wolf Award as the best creative work
in the field of race relations for the year.

To you my continued good wishes ever,
and my very best regards to Sadie.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NO. 4
JUDGE'S CHAMBERS

536 CITY HALL, PHILADELPHIA 7, PA.

RAYMOND PACE ALEXANDER
JUDGE

July 19, 1965

Dear Langston,

Greetings to an old friend in which my darling wife, Sadie joins. Both of us read the New York Post daily and Sunday. We never miss this newspaper. We enjoy it tremendously and we thoroughly enjoy your column.

I read just last week your column written in Paris and that is the reason for my letter. I will be leaving on the 1st of August for our government on a special assignment to South East Asia to the "trouble spots" in the non-white world. This will be an important assignment as you can understand. I will start with the Philippines and go up to Laos, Korea, Formosa and Japan. From Japan, I go south to Malaysia, Thailand and into New Zealand from there to India and Pakistan. I am taking a few days on my return as a vacation and rest in Paris and London. I want to see you in Paris, and I want to see some of my friends whom I have known and have not seen Paris in the last half dozen years. I will then go to London to see my dear friend Turner Layton and old friends of the arts and the theatre.

I would like to know if you will be in Paris in mid September. I hope you will be and I would like very much to see you for oldtimes sake and meet some of your friends and my old ones and new. If you will not be in Paris, please let me know of some of the very interesting persons to meet and whom you have found to be entertaining, knowledgeable and informative in arts, literature, letters and perhaps even more interesting things.!!