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P .LLK181 NL PD 13 EXTRA=PHILADELPHIA PENN 28=

LANGSTON HUGHES= HB
20 EAST 127TH ST NYK=

PHILADELPHIA SHOWED TREMENDOUS INTEREST IN CULTURAL AND
SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE FOR WORLD PEACE RECENTLY HELD IN
NEW YORK BECAUSE OF STATE DEPARTMENTS ACTION WHICH
PREVENTED TOUR OF FOREIGN DELEGATES PHILADELPHIAS HURRIEDLY
IMPROVISED MEETING WAS UNFORTUNATELY UNABLE IN TIME
REMAINING TO MOBOLIZE FULL POTENTIAL OF PEACE FORCES IN
CITY THEREFORE THE WOMENS DIVISION OF THE PHILADELPHIA
COUNCIL OF THE ARTS SCIENCES AND PROFESSION IS PLANNING
A LUNCHEON ON SATURDAY MAY 21ST AT NOON IN CONNECTION
WITH THE NATIONAL ROLL CALL FOR PEACE CAMPAIGN WE ARE
MOST ANXIOUS TO HAVE YOU AS GUEST SPEAKER ON THIS
OCCASION AND EARNESTLY URGE YOUR ACCEPTANCE=

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THE ARTS SCIENCES AND PROFESSIONS 1831 CHESTNUT
STREET PHILADELPHIA PA=

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THE COMPANY WILL APPRECIATE SUGGESTIONS FROM ITS PATRONS CONCERNING ITS SERVICE

THE PHILADELPHIA COUNCIL OF THE
ARTS, SCIENCES AND PROFESSIONS

1415 LOCUST STREET • PHILADELPHIA 2, PA.

August 16, 1950

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

Dear Mr. Hughes;

Our Chapter is now planning a series of lectures for the period of
October 1 - December 31, 1950. This will be one phase of a live
program which is being planned for our "new" Cultural Center.

As many of our friends have indicated a strong desire to hear you,
we would be highly honored and pleased if you would see fit to accept
one of the engagements. As we are just now making up our schedule,
any date during the period would be highly suitable, and the topic
could be of your choice. However, we would like to ask that you
give the month of November your first consideration.

The audience would be approximately 100 persons (capacity of our lecture room). However, in case it appears that the audience may be larger, arrangements will be made for a larger place. If it meets with your approval, an informal reception would be planned for immediately after the lecture, giving us a chance to meet you and the others who would be in attendance.

We hope to receive a favorable reply from you very soon. Will you also
please send us information on suggested topics and probable amount of
expenses. Thanks a lot for giving this letter your kind consideration.

Honorary Chairman Robert Morss Lovett; Chairman John J. DeBoer; Chairman of Art Stefan Heym; Chairman of Science Linus Pauling; Chairman of Professions Colston E. Warne; Secretary Henry Pratt Fairchild; Treasurer Stanley Faulkner; Vice Chairmen Allan M. Butler, A. J. Carlson, Olin Downes, W. E. B. DuBois, E. Franklin Frazier, Lillian Hellman, Robert W. Kenny, Howard Koch, John Howard Lawson, O. John Rogge, Frederick L. Schuman, Harlow Shapley. Philadelphia Chapter-Chairman John Condx; Vice Chairmen Barrows Dunham, Philip R. White; Secretary Rose Bloom; Treasurer Benedict B. Kimmelman; Executive Director William R. Meek.

HONDA

August 17, 1950

Mr. William R. Meek
The Philadelphia Council of the
Arts, Sciences and Professions
1415 Locust Street
Philadelphia 2, Penna.

Dear Mr. Meek;

Thank you for your letter of August 16th and your kind invitation to speak before the members of your new Cultural Center.

However, at the present, I have two musical shows, JUST AROUND THE CORNER and THE BARRIER, both scheduled for possible Broadway productions and I am working on still a third as yet untitled musical piece. Since show business is so exacting on one's time and so unpredictable, I have decided not to accept any more speaking engagements for the remainder of the year so that I might give my full interest to these projects.

I hope that you will once more extend to me once more at some future date more suitable to us both another such invitation.

LH/nvw

March 22, 1951

Miss Bernice Sklar,
Philadelphia ASP,
1415 Locust Street,
Philadelphia 2, Pa.

Dear Miss Sklar,

I've just gotten back East after a long Southern lecture tour, and
have three very much over-due deadlines to meet on things requiring
extended work, so I dare not leave Town again—two shows and a
book. The composers and publishers for whom I am working would have
breakdowns. So I regret that I cannot accept your invitation to be
a part of the Cultural Conference taking place in Philadelphia at the
end of April. I simply can't attempt another thing this spring, or
I'll never get ahead of my present commitments. I wish I could accept
your kind invitation.

February 1, 1952

Mr. Elliott Williams,
Writers Division,
Philadelphia G.A.S.P.,
1415 Locust Street,
Philadelphia 2, Penn.

Dear Mr. Williams,

I would like very much to read Lucy Smith's poems with the
view to considering an introduction, but unfortunately your
letters reaches me just as I am about to leave New York on
Monday for a six weeks lecture tour starting in Cleveland and
continuing through the midwest to the Carolinas, Florida,
Alabama, and Texas, covering Negro History Week---which is
now a month.

From past experience I've learned that nothing (not even
reading) can be accomplished on tour, sponsors and students
keep one so busy, so there'd be no use in asking you to send
the manuscript to me on the road, moving about each day from
place to place to place, as I will be.

I'm sorry. Certainly I recall liking some of Miss Smith's
work that I have seen, and I will write about her book when
it is published.

With all good wishes to you in this venture,