UNITED
STATES
POSTAGE

2 CENTS

Mr. Harold Jackman
50 Morningside Ave.
N.Y.

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5

409 Edgecombe Ave., N.Y.
September, 15, 1939

Dear Harold:

Helen's school, P.S.68, which has
received a new building, has obtained per-
mission from the Board of Education to
name a corner of their new librsry, "The
Helen Lanning Corner."

It is to contain books only about colored
people, especially colored children. Severe
al of Helen's friends have contributed one
or more books. Most of them have sent me a
dollar with which to select a book from
the list which I had to submit to the
Board?

Harold would you care to add to this lit-
tle collection? It would make me very hap-
py if you should. But do please remember
that this is only a suggestion, not a re-
quest.

The collection is to be dedicated early in
October.

Well how do you like being back on the job?
I hope you didn't get caught in the Euro-
pean maelstrom. Me I'm glad to be working
in these hard times!

Lots of luck,

409 Edgecombe Ave., N.Y.

September 21, 1939

Dear Harold:

Thank you very much for your instant response. But of course it was no more than I expected from you. Later I shall send you the name of your book and a book-plate for you to inscribe; this will be pasted, in turn, in your book.

I am overjoyed that you want to see the ~~collectio~~ collection. It is a charming one. I'll arrange for that shortly.

All good wishes.

Thursday

12th March, 1942

Dear Carl:

The card from Jessie Fauset refers
to a request for a contribution to buy books
for the Helen Fauset Lanning Collection in
P.S. 68, Manhattan. Each person who con-
tributed was asked to fill out a label to
be pasted in the book bought with that money.
I enclose the announcement of the dedication
of the collection.

9 letters from Jessie Puset (Harris:N) to
Herold Jackman

1: typed, but with several handwritten additions

2. Als: now Mrs Harris. 3 ALS; 4 ALS. 5: ALS

6, ALS; 7, ALS

28: Printed card and ALS. An explanation by Harold Jackman is laid in.

9. In reply to Harold Jackman's request for a manuscript for the James Weldon Johnson Collection, enclosed in a letter to CVV, from UJ

Notes by Carl Van Vechten, March 14, 1942