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American Guild of Authors and Composers

BURTON LANE
President

MILTON DRAKE
Vice-President

WALTER BISHOP
2nd Vice-President

JACK LAWRENCE
Secretary

LEONARD WHITCUP
Treasurer

JOHN SCHULMAN,
Counsel

MIRIAM STERN
Executive Director

MARGARET THIELE
Copyright Dept.

West Coast Committee

SAMMY CAHN
Chairman

DONALD KAHN
Co-Chairman

Members of the Council

EDGAR LESLIE
Chairman

Stanley Adams

Louis Alter

Abel Baer

Walter Bishop

Johnny Burke

Irving Caesar, H.C.

Sam Coslow

Paul Cunningham, H.C.

Milton Drake

Edward Eliscu

Ira Gershwin, H.C.

Jay Gorney

Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd

Otto Harbach, H.C.

Pinky Herman

Alex Kramer

Burton Lane

Jack Lawrence

John Jacob Loeb

George Meyer, H.C.

Joseph Meyer

Vic Mizzy

Richard Rodgers, H.C.

Billy Rose, H.C.

Arthur Schwartz

Charles Tobias

Leonard Whitcup

Jack Yellen, H.C.

FORMERLY

158 WEST 55th STREET, NEW YORK 19, NEW YORK • Circle 6-2536
6272 SUNSET BOULEVARD, HOLLYWOOD 28, CALIFORNIA • Hollywood 2-1108

November 22, 1960

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

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Enclosed herewith is an authorization permitting ASCAP to deduct your membership dues and pay them to the Guild in quarterly payments for the current year.

Would you please sign this and return it to us in the enclosed self-addressed envelope?

Thank you.

ms.r
Enc.

RECEIVED
DEC 8 1960

YOUR AUTHORIZATION RECEIVED
ENTIRE IS YOUR MEMBERSHIP CARD FOR THE
CURRENT YEAR.

158 WEST 55th STREET, NEW YORK 19, NEW YORK • Plaza 7-8833

From: Margaret Thiele
Copyright Dept.

COPYRIGHT RENEWAL NOTICE

TO: Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 127th St.
New York 35, New York

Date Jan. 31, 1961

Book # 5-1934
P

IF THIS IS NOT YOUR COMPOSITION
PLEASE DISREGARD THIS NOTICE

This is to advise you that a search of the Catalogue of Copyright Entries issued
by the Superintendent of Documents at Washington, D.C., reveals that the copyright of
your composition entitled:

HUGHES' (SPIKE) NOCTURNE

Words by:

Music by:

Arr. Spike Hughes; Orch. Pts.

Published by: Lawrence Wright Music Co., Ltd.

Copyright date: Mar. 23, 1934

Copyright Number: E-For. 34252

Should be renewed on: Mar. 23, 1961

And cannot be renewed after: Mar. 22, 1962

The American Guild of Authors and Composers has a Copyright Department at your disposal. If you wish us to take care of the matter of renewing the copyright on this composition in your name, kindly return this notice to OUR NEW YORK OFFICE, together with your check of $3.00, payable to the order of MIRIAM STERN, SPECIAL, to cover the statutory registration fee and our $1.00 charge. Your affirmative reply to this notice will constitute authorization for AGAC to sign renewal form. PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU DESIRE TO PROTECT, BY RENEWAL, A COMPOSITION FOR WHICH YOU HAVE AN UNPUBLISHED AS WELL AS A PUBLISHED COPYRIGHT, YOU MUST RENEW BOTH COPYRIGHTS.

AMERICAN GUILD OF AUTHORS & COMPOSERS

Form 60-03

COPYRIGHT DEPARTMENT

April 19th, 1961

Dear Member:

RE: PSEUDONYMS

In order for the Guild to provide you with proper service in each of its departments -- contracts, copyright renewals, royalties -- it is most essential that we have a record of any pseudonyms you may have used since you started writing.

Will you, therefore, send this information to us immediately?

Thank you.

Miriam Stern
Executive Director

ms.r

Dear Member:

April 19th, 1961

In checking statements received from publishers, we find that a number
of songs are in their renewal period and that the writers or their estates
are entitled to increased royalty rates under renewal agreements.

If you have made any renewal contracts, it is important that we have
the proper information to make certain that you are credited with these
increased rates. May we, therefore, ask that you send us copies of these
renewal contracts, or a proper listing of the songs involved, the changes
in royalty rates and the other applicable terms.

If you do not have extra copies of your contracts, we will make copies
in this office and return the originals to you.

ms.r

April 26, 1961

Miss Miriam Stern
A. G. A. and C.
158 West 55th Street
New York 19, N. Y.

Dear Miss Stern:

In answer to your communication of April 19th regarding pseudonyms in relation to my songs and other work, I have never used any pseudonyms whatsoever during my writing career.

All of my writing, published and otherwise, is signed Langston Hughes.

With continued gratitude to the Guild for so carefully looking after its members' interest, I remain,

LH:
bh:

April 16, 1960

Miss Margaret Thiele,
A. G. A. G.,
158 West 55th Street,
New York 19, N. Y.

Dear Miss Thiele:

In answer to your communication of April 14 regarding the song "CROSS" and the contracts to be approved with the Starlight Music Company, I have myself received no monies from Starlight. I do not know whether or not any advance was paid Elmo Russ, since I have had no contact with him. As composer, he set this poem of mine to music without our working together on it, and I do not believe I have ever met Mr. Russ. Certainly, I have no knowledge of a $100.00 advance having been paid.

American Guild of Authors and Composers
MUST

When you place a song
INSIST ON AN AGAC CONTRACT
Help us protect you.

COPYRIGHT RENEWAL NOTICE

TO:
Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 127th St.
New York 35, N.Y.

Date July 31, 1963
Book # 1-1937-D
P

IF THIS IS NOT YOUR COMPOSITION
PLEASE DISREGARD THIS NOTICE.

DOCTOR SCHOLEFIELD An Incident Of The Hungry Forties

Words by:

Music by: By- Mary D. Stocks
(Manchester) Sherratt & Hughes (1936) 77 (1)p. 12mo.

Published by: Mary Danvers Stocks, Manchester, England

Copyright date: Sept. 12, 1936

Should be renewed on: Sept. 12, 1963

And cannot be renewed after: Sept. 11, 1964

Copyright Number: D-47332

COPYRIGHT DEPARTMENT

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W. P. MARSHALL, PRESIDENT

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LANGSTON HUGHES 20 EAST 127 ST NYK

PLEASE SEND BLUE CROSS PAYMENT TO US BY RETURN MAIL MUST HAVE
BY JULY 31ST

MIRIAM STERN AGAC 158 WEST 55 ST NEW YORK CITY