BERKSHIRE
MUSIC
BARN

LENOX, MASS

August 12, 1955

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

Dear Langston,

Time has come round to the Roundtable again
and we are at last finalizing plans.
Marshall would love to have you particularly
for the third week of the Roundtable;
that is the week of August 29. If you can't
make it for the entire week I know he would
particularly like you for the Roundtable
sessions of Wednesday, August 31 and Friday,
September 2. The Roundtables this year
will take place in the evening in our
Music Barn which we are very eager to show
you. There will be musicians sitting in
on each of the Roundtables this year and
part of the format will be live demonstrations.
It should really be a ball this year.

We can pay you $50 for the week or as much
of the week as you can manage. A big hug
for you and for Toy if she is around.

June 2, 1958

Dear Stephanie:

I am delighted that I shall be doing my poetry-to-jazz
program with Tony Scott. I worked with him on the TV show, The
Subject Is Jazz, last week and he is very sensitive to the
nuances of my poetry. If you are writing him, would you ask
him if it would be possible to have two rehearsals with his
quartette before the program at Music Inn? I don't have his
address but if you would send it to me, I would make these
arrangements myself.

Unfortunately I will have to miss your housewarming at the
end of the month as I have agreed to go to Atlanta University to
conduct a series of summer school seminars that week. I will
get back only just in time to head for Newport for the Jazz
Festival. Aunt Toy is having her ups and downs with arthritis
and does not feel that she will be able to take so long a trip,
but all of us are grateful for your invitation and wish that
we could come. Certainly I hope that Edith will be able to make
it. In any case I will see you in July.

Under separate cover I have returned the letter of agree-
ment to you along with publicity material and photographs.
If you are in New York on Sunday, June 15th, you might like to
hear me do a poetry-to-jazz program at Branker's Melody Room
here in Harlem. I am sending you and Phil an invitation.

With cordial regards, as ever,

June 4, 1958

MUSIC
INN
LENOX, MASS

Dear Langston:

Delighted that it is all set.

Tony Scott's address is: 56 West 70th Street,
TRafalgar 7-8200. I suppose it would be best
if you give him a ring yourself.

We are so sorry that you will miss our party,
but pleased that we will be seeing you in July.

Much love to Toy. Tell her we will miss her
and I hope to see her in the Fall. Tell her,
too, that we are expecting another baby -- that
might cheer her up.

Lots of love,

Stephanie
[Barber]