Caxnel, Cal.,

March 6, 1934.

Dear Hirsch,

Our Sale is over. We greatly appreciated your letter of greeting
from the National Office. Cagney made a pretty swell auctioneer
and we will probably clear about $1100.00 when the bills are paid.
The San Francisco office will report to you directly and forward
the check. Here are some of the manuscript prices: Jeffers, 67.00;
Erskine Scotts Wood, 55.00; Julia Peterkin (who finally answered
with a page of ROLL JOURDAN ROLL, 16.00; Countee Cullen, 25.00;
Claude McKay, 12.50. I didn't keep track myself of the picture
prices. We still have left over quite a lot of fairly good things
including the Morris manuscript of BREAD, the Granville Hicks, a
Jack London, and all the music scores among other things which were
never put up for sale as we had to close at midnight......En-
closed is a copy of the Erskine Wood poem which has just been re-
turned from THE NATION. We would greatly appreciate it if your
office might be able to place it with some publication, possibly
the NEW REPUBLIC, SURVEY, WORLD TOMORROW, or one of them newspapers.
From this distance it takes such a long time sending it back and
forth. Col. Wood, as you know, is a member of our Committee and him-
self read the poem at the Sale....What was the result of the Ruth Boyd
poem? If it has not been accepted any place, I will release it to the
labor and Negro press anyway where it is sure of publication. When
next you write us, please let me know.....Do you think you could per-
suade the Los Angeles Com. to stage an auction such as ours, using our
left over material and getting more from the movie stars and writers
in Hollywood? If you are in touch with them, see what you can do to
wake them up.

Sincerely,

Sincerely,