On Tour
San Francisco, Calif.

April 22, 1944

Miss Oral S. Coad
Dept. of English
New Jersey College for Women
New Brunswick, N.J.

Dear Miss Coad:

I have just received your letter here as I am completing
the westward end of my current cross-country lecture tour.
I shall be in New York again by May 16th. If that is not
too late for me to come to the New Jersey College for Women,
I would be delighted to appear there in a combination talk
and reading of my poems of Negro life, achievements and aspirations.

I may be reached in Chicago, (on second thought I think
Detroit is better as I will be there several days) from May 4th
to the 9th. The address is 358 Josephine St., care of Whitby,
Detroit, Mich. After May 15th my home address is: 634 St.
Nicholas Ave., New York, 30, N.Y.

May 6, 1944.

Dear Mrs. Coad,

Wednesday, May 17th is fine for me. Would you be so kind as to drop me a note addressed to 634 St. Nicholas Avenue, New York City, 30, New York, letting me know the hour of the program, and the best train to take for New Brunswick, as I have never been there before. I shall reach New York the evening of the 15th. I have Flint, Ann Arbor, Pittsburgh, and Scranton yet to cover. Then home.

STATE OF NEW JERSEY
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
TRENTON 5

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Mr. Langston Hughes
634 St. Nicholas Ave.
New York 30, N. Y.

BUSINESS EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
TRENTON, NEW JERSEY

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Mr. Langston Hughes
634 St. Nicholas Avenue
New York 30, New York