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Cable Address: MANUSCRIPT

Letter from:
Mrs. Jerrold Stern,
6 Hickory Drive,
Maplewood, New Jersey.
(Pres. of the Urban League
Guild of Essex County)

April 10, 1951.

Excerpt: "This past week we had a presentation by the Fuld Neighborhood House Players of an adaptation of "Simple Speaks His Mind". It was a great privilege for the audience! The players and the play were received with great enthusiasm

Dear Langston:

I am enclosing a letter I've
just received relative to another perform-
ance of SIMPLE SPEAKS HIS MIND. I wish you
would study its contents, let me have your answer
to the first three questions Mrs.
Stern raises, and return her letter to me
so that I can write her about your decision
and tell her what the fee for such a per-
formance will be.

Yours,

and commendation. Here was a message dramatically told, that really reached
the heart. We do not feel satisfied that so few people had so great an opportunity
and so we want to do more with it. We would like to present it again in the
early fall at a large public meeting at which admission would be charged, the
profits of which would be turned over to the Urban League. We would like to
have Mr. Hughes there to say a few words of introduction, as we feel sure his
presence would lend great prestige to the occasion. We would be glad to have
some of his books there to sell.

Mrs. Florence L. Stern

ANSWERED—4/16/51: October up to November 9, O.K. No fee, books to be sold which I'll send ahead from publishers. Pub. material sent Mrs. Stern—Sheet and folder.

L. H.

October 5, 1951,

Greenwood Lake.

Mrs. Florence L. Stern,
Urban League Guild,
6 Hickory Drive,
Maplewood, N. J.

Dear Mrs. Stern,

Thank you very much for your recent note and that very
nice announcement of our coming program in Newark.

I have been in the country all summer, first Lake
Candlewood, then here, completing a musical show and a
couple of books. But I will be returning to the city
next week and shall be on the look-out for a letter
from Mrs. Garner.

Early in the summer I saw Maurice Moss of the National
Office of the League and he said he was planning to
come over to Newark to see our show. I was delighted
that he knew about it so far in advance.

With very best regards,

RECEIVED TO MRS. GARNER BY LANGSTON HUGHES:
old copies to be returned to Mr. Hughes)

OCTOBER 10,

1 THE WEARY BLUES...................$2.00
1 NOT WITHOUT LAUGHTER.............$3.00
1 THE DREAM KEEPER..................$2.00
1 POPO AND FIFINA...................$2.50
1 FIELDS OF WONDER..................$2.50
2 SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM............$3.00
1 THE POETRY OF THE NEGRO.........$5.00

October 9, 1951

Mrs. L. Hamilton Garner,
385 Highland Avenue,
Newark 4, New Jersey.

Dear Mrs. Garner,

I am just back in New York today from a summer in the country and find your note awaiting me. I have asked Simon and Schuster to send you, on consignment to the Urban League Guild, 50 copies of "Simple" paper bound selling at $1.00, and 10 cloth copies selling at $3.00. I believe the discount is 40% so the profits may go to the Guild, unsold books may be returned, and you may remit for those sold directly to the publishers. The dollar copies of "Simple" usually sell very well. But one can never tell about an audience, sometimes they buy lots of books, sometimes not. But in any case it is best to have too many rather than not enough.

I am also sending you eight copies of my various other books myself, those published by Knopf, as listed on the enclosed memo. Unsold copies I'll just bring back home with me. At the moment I don't have any copies of my latest book of poems, "Montage of A Dream Deferred", but I'll get a few and bring over with me. So we'll have a complete display. The prices are just inside the covers, and the discount is, on these, I believe 33 1/3. I will, of course, be delighted to autograph copies after the program.

Thank you very much indeed for looking after them. And I am delighted to be coming to Newark to see the play and meet your audience.

Sincerely yours,