March 16, 1951

Professor Jose Ferrer
Dillard University
New Orleans, Louisiana

Dear Jose Ferrer:

Thank you very much indeed for sending me a copy of your excellent interview with me in EL MUNDO. I am very happy to have it.

Also I am happy to have your fine letter to the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. I am sure that it must have had some effect upon them.

Just today I received a very nice book of poems, EL HOMBRE Y SU ANGUSTIA, from the author, Felix Franco Oppenheimer, who is at the University of Puerto Rico, with an introduction by Luis Fales Matos.

It was certainly nice meeting you at Dillard and I only regretted that we has such a short time to talk together. I hope that if you come to New York you will call on me at the above address.

With all good wishes to you.

LH/evv

June 3, 1956

Mr. Jose Ferrar,
Universal Pictures,
445 Park Avenue,
New York City.

Dear José,

Dan Burley's HANDBOOK OF JIVE gives the follow-
ing definition for lane:

LANE---One who doesn't understand, a
hick, a smart aleck, a confidence man.

and for:

SQUARE---One who works for a living,
who is on the square, an honest person,
one with money, one who chases women
and is taken for his money.

Here's a song I made from FLYPAPER which might
amuse your missus. As usual with most songs,
nothing happened.....But June Christy has a
nice styling of my LONELY HOUSE in her album,
SOMETHING COOL.

I hope you'll be feeling better soon.

Fidelity
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March 31, 1965

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

Dear Mr. Hughes:

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Mr. Wylie's experience is typical of that of many persons who have suffered a serious fire in their homes. They are usually under-insured and have no record of the many items contained in their homes, nor do they fully realize how much it would cost to replace them at today's higher prices.

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May 29, 1964

Dear Edward Field!

Seldom does so intriguing a book turn up in the mail (which brings enough printed matter in a month to stack a library). All I can say is, "You don't see much poetry like that any more." I love MARK TWAIN AND SHOLEM ALEICHEM--- and "The shore a fading memory and the direction lost"---and others, too. And thanks for your most gracious inscription. I am very glad to have your book.

23 WEST 26th STREET • MURRAY HILL 4-3734 • NEW YORK 10

April 3, 1944

Mr. Langston Hughes
634 St. Nicholas Ave.
New York (30) N.Y.

Dear Mr. Hughes:

I am inviting fifteen or twenty people to meet at my
home - 16 West 12 Street - at 8 o'clock Friday April
14th to discuss ways in which the Daily Worker can be
improved and broadened. I am one of those who find
the role which that newspaper plays exceedingly val-
uable and I hope that you are sufficiently interested
in its welfare to join this meeting.

Mr. Earl Browder and several members of the staff of
the Daily will be with us. The purpose of the meet-
ing will be to have a frank discussion, to obtain
your opinions and to talk over the entire problem
with Mr. Browder. I should add, perhaps, that this
meeting has nothing whatsoever to do with financing
the paper.

I hope very much indeed that you will accept this in-
vitation and that I shall see you on Friday the 14th.
As I shall be out of town until April 10th I would
appreciate it if you would drop me a note at my office
at the address printed on this letterhead telling me
whether or not you can accept. Or, telephone my secre-
tary, Mrs. Gwynn at this office - Mu 4-3734.

FVF:rg

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To Sydenham
Hospital

January 5, 1949

Dear Mr. Fields:

The anthology, THE POETRY OF THE NEGRO, edited by myself and Afra Bontemps and published by Doubleday, appears tomorrow, January 6. As you will probably recall, before the holidays I spoke to you on the phone about the possibility of organizing a Poets Festival including the poets from the anthology who live in the New York area, the proceeds from such a program, either in the form of ticket sales if admission is charged, or book sales, to go to the group or organization sponsoring the program. At that time I mentioned to you the names of some of these poets. The complete list is: (Negro) Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, William Stanley Braithwaite, Angelina W. Grimke, Jessie Fauset, Binga Dismond, Langston Hughes, Waring Cuney, Helene Johnson, Pauli Murray, Myron O'Higgins, Bruce McM. Wright, Alfred Duckett, and George Campbell. (White) William Rose Benet, St. Clair McKelway, Ridgely Torrence, Selden Rodman, Kenneth Patchen, Maxwell Bodenheim, and Sidney Alexander.

Since my own book, ONE WAY TICKET, Knopf, comes out January 10, the Doubleday and Knopf offices are combining publicity forces in the promotion of these two books, and both offices would collaborate in a Poets Festival. If you are interested in the project as a possibility for Sydenham, you may phone Miss Louise Thomas Circle 6-1700, at the Doubleday office, or Mr. Bill Cole at PLaza 3-4761, at the Knopf office.

All my good wishes to you.

LH:HHS

July 16, 1949

Mr. Frank Fields,
37 West 99th Street,
New York 25, N. Y.

Dear Frankie,

The enclosed suite is a portion of my next book, MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED, Poems of Harlem in the Be-Bop Era. Jacob Lawrence has done the illustrations for it, which you may see if you'd like to drop by sometime.

I am not sensitive, lyrically speaking, so if these
poems strike you musically, and changes or revisions need to be
made to suit your musical ideas, don't hesitate to suggest them.
Let me know if they appeal to you. My phone number is Sa. 2-1988
(please don't give it to anyone) and I'm usually around after two
in the afternoon until midnight.

That beautiful lady you stood around in the rain
for the other night looked worth every minute of waiting!

December 31, 1953

Dear Victor:

I have been remembering with pleasure every since
my return to New York the very pleasant evening
spent at the beach with our Omega brothers, and your
own part in helping to make it delightful, as an
interlude in my busy stay at Hampton. Please con-
vey to the members of both chapters my gratitude
for their hospitality.

All my good wishes to you for a very happy New
Year.

LH-HS

Professor Victor H. Fields
Dept. of Chemistry
Hampton Institute
Hampton, Virginia

SCHEDULE, L angston Hughes and Arna Bontemps. 11/25/38/

Saturday, 9:30 A.M. Mr. Bontemps talks over KOA.

" 11 A.M. " " and Mr. Hughes autograph books in the Book Dept. May Co. 16th. and Champa Strt

" 12:30 Noon, lunch with the small committee who made the arrangements for the Recital at Y.W.C.A.1545 Tr

" 6:30 P.M. Dinner for L.H.and A.B. with Mr. and Mrs. Binna, WPA supervisor at their home; this, I understand is a family dinner; you will call for me to go to a party.

" 8:30 Small informal party arranged by Sara Shepherd.

Sunday, 9 A.M. Small breakfast at Mrs. Lightner's, 2534 Marion St. Coteri Club making the arrangements.

" 3:00. World Poetry Union at Denver Woman's Press Club,1325 Logan.