December 10, 1965

Dear Mr. North,

In preparing an anthology Mr Langston Hughes has come across a story by a writer named George Sturtevant about whom it has been difficult to get any information. The story titled *Skin* appeared in the 1947 edition of Cross Section edited by Edwin Seaver and published by L.B. Fischer.

Would you have any information about Mr. Sturtevant or Mr. Seaver, such as present addresses, or how one could get in touch with either person. Also, would you know how one would write to the L.B. Fischer company which seems to have gone out of business.

We would like to thank you for any
assistance you can give us.

December 10, 1965

Dear Mr. North,

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June 3 1940

Dear Langston:

I don't know whether you remember me but I've met you and am writing to ask you if it is possible in any way to contact Marian Anderson and perhaps interest her in doing "Negro Mother"-- a poem of yours which I set to music and was very favorably received. The New York Times commented so in their review. It is written for solo (preferably contralto) and chorus of female voices. Length is about nine minutes.

If you will be in New York City some times this summer I would like you to hear it. Would you please write me as soon as possible?

Perhaps you'll remember me as Joe North's brother ?

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June 7, 1940

Mr. Alex North
Unity House
Forest Park, Pennsylvania

Dear Alex North:

Of course I remember you, and I was delighted to know
that you had set to music my poem "The Negro Mother,"
which I read in the New Masses Magazine was very ef-
fectively sung at Mecca Temple. I would like immensely
to hear it, and when I come to town this summer I shall
get in touch with you.

I know Marian Anderson but slightly, and, unfortunately,
I do not know her address or how to get in touch with
her. She must have tons of music, because I myself
know dozens of composers who have sent her things to
sing (so they hoped) and have heard no more of them.
So unless we have some personal contact with her, I
don't think it would be of much use merely to send
her the composition.

Do you think the song is going to be published? In
which case I know a number of persons and organizations
to whom we might send copies with some certainty of its
being sung, but I do not believe any of them are famous
or important enough to warrant the trouble of manuscript
copies, since it must be a very long song.

Looking forward to seeing you this summer, I am

LH:HAW

Dear Langston:

I've been unsuccessful getting in touch with

you---Elie Siegmeister tells me you're in town and I
thought I'd write and try to see you. I've written you
before about the setting I did to your poem "Negro
Mother"---it's been performed successfully several
times and its one of my favorite works---I'll see you
and would you like me to send you a copy of the work?
I get in to town once in a while and would like to
see you.

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November 7, 1946

Mr. Langston Hughes
c/o Alfred P. Knopf Company
730 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York

-Please Forward-

Dear Sir:

In order to encourage more students to enter the writing field as a profession, we, here at A. and T. College this year, are fostering a program in which we hope to bring before the students successful writers.

We would like to have your services during the week of February 10, 1947.

At that time we want you to address the student body and include in your lecture such things as, opportunities for writers, obstacles facing writers, training necessary for successful writing and traits one should possess. Of course, anything else that your experience has proved that young people should be acquainted with.

In connection with this, there will be at least one smaller group of students who would want conferences with you. Also, we are planning a college-wide poetic contest which will close at that time, and we would want you to judge student entries for the purpose of awarding prizes. However, there will be an elimination contest prior to this and the number of entries will be few that will remain for you to judge.

This will require your remaining in Greensboro one night and a day.

Please bear in mind that these plans are tentative and depend somewhat on your fees and the time that you will be available.

As soon as you have made a decision, please let me know, so that we may go ahead with our final arrangements.

November 13, 1946

Dear Miss Hill:

Thank you for your letter of November 7 and your kind in-
vitation to visit A. and T. College. I remember with great
pleasure my former visit to your campus and would be happy
to appear there again.

W. Colston Leigh, Inc., 521 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, N. Y.,
are in charge of booking all of my lecture engagements, so
the date and terms must be secured through them.

However, according to my present itinerary (unless their of-
fice has booked something else of which I have not been ad-
vised for that date), since I am speaking at Dr. Shepard's
school in Durham on the morning of February 10, I could come
over to Greensboro and spend that evening with you and address
your students either that evening or the next day, February 11,
spending a portion of that day with you too.

The literary material which you wish me to judge, could be
sent to me after January 25 at Atlanta University, Atlanta,
Georgia, where I shall be giving a series of seminars dur-
ing their spring semester.

If the above arrangements seem satisfactory to you, will you
kindly write W. Colston Leigh, Inc., about them.

With all good wishes to you, I am

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December 1, 1959

Chairman of the Lyceum Committee
A and T State College
Greensboro, North Carolina

Dear Sir:

During the week of April 3 - 9 I have three engagements
for readings of my poetry at colleges in North Carolina. Since
I remember with pleasure past appearances on your campus, I
would be pleased to appear again before your student body during
my Spring tour (at your customary lecture fee) in case you have
an open date during the week of April 10 - 16 and would let me
know soon so that I might confirm it on my schedule.

This season I am able to allot only six weeks to platform
appearances. The Autumn period and that of Negro History Week
are now entirely booked up, including appearances at the Univer-
sity of Buffalo, Hanover College, Defiance College, Kentucky State,
and Spelman. But for Spring the week preceeding Easter is still
open for bookings in the South, and I have always enjoyed visiting
North Carolina.

LH:gb

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April 15, 1950

Mr. Floyd B. McKissick,
The Yearbook Staff,
School of Law,
North Carolina College,
Durham, North Carolina.

Dear Mr. McKissick,

Your letter of April 10 to Country Life Press, Garden City, New York, has been forwarded to me for my attention as co-editor of THE PROPERTY OF THE NEGRO.

I am, of course, delighted that you wish to reprint some of the material in our collection. But, unfortunately, the publishers of the book, and ourselves as editors, have the rights only to use of the poems for the anthology. We have no right to give, and cannot give, permission to print them elsewhere. Such permission must come from the authors themselves, or the original publishers of their works. The notes at the bottom of each page of poems will indicate to you to whom the copy-rights of each poem belong.

In case you would like to write the authors personally, these addresses might be helpful to you:

Mr. Robert Hayden,
Fisk University,
Nashville 8, Tennessee.

Dr. H. Binga Dismond,
245 West 139th Street,
New York, New York.

Aquah Luluah is in Africa and we were unable to reach her. I do not believe she would object to you using a portion of her poem. Claude McKay is, of course, dead, likewise James Weldon Johnson, as I'm sure you know. Permission to use their work should come from their publishers. The publishers of "Lift Every Voice" are Herbert E. Marks Music Publishers, R.K.O. Building, Radio City, New York.

The best of luck to you with these permissions and your Yearbook.

P.S. I've just got a new
book out, SIMPLE SPEAKS HIS MIND.

October 8, 1959

Mr. Robert W. Hoag,
Lyceum Series,
N. C. College,
Durham, N. Y.

Dear Mr. John!

Some months ago you very kindly wrote asking if I might be available for your Lyceum series for the coming season. At that time I did not know what my schedule would be, but now it is gradually taking form. In November I go to Trini-dad for a series of programs under the auspices of the Pub-lie Library at Port-of-Spain. In February I give Negro His-tory Week talks at various colleges including the University of Buffalo, Kentucky State, and Hanover. And in the Spring I have been asked to read my poems at Chapel Hill and Bennett in North Carolina. Preceeding these later engagements, it is now possible for me to accept a few other dates in the area, beginning with the week of March 27th.

At the moment any day during that week is available: March 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, or April 1. And the dates of April 13 and 14 are also possibilities on which, if you wish, I might come to North Carolina College. Remembering with great pleasure past appearances there, certainly I would be happy to read my poems to your students again. My customary fee for programs outside the New York area is $300.00. And I would appreciate arrangements being made for overnight housing.

Perhaps you saw in last Sunday's TIMES the announcement of the Theatre Guild scheduling my play, TAMBOURINES TO GLORY, for production this coming season, probably late Spring--- which is why I must limit my lecture commitments---since things theatrical can take so much time, and an author needs to be around during rehearsals.

With cordial regards,

NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE AT DURHAM

DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA

October 15, 1959

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 127th Street
New York 35, New York

Dear Mr. Hughes:

I enjoyed receiving your letter of October 8, telling me
of your proposed spring trips to Chapel Hill and Bennett College,
and also of your availability during the latter part of March for
possible presentations at this college.

Unfortunately, our Lyceum series for the current year was
decided upon last spring and all contracts were let at that time.
The Lyceum Committee committed the full amount of money allotted us
for these programs and, hence, it is now impossible for us to add
any other major attractions for the current academic year. Our
committee is normally charged with the responsibility of completing
negotiations for the Lyceum series before June 30, for the following
year.

I believe the students at this college would greatly enjoy
hearing you read your poems and possibly saying a few words regarding
your new play, Tambourines To Glory, but I am afraid for reasons
mentioned above that your appearance at this college could not be
under the sponsorship of the Lyceum series.

I will be pleased to mention the available dates you listed in
your letter to other organizations on the campus and it might be
possible for one of these groups to invite you to this campus. If
any of them can, I am sure you will hear from them directly.

RWJ:her

October 19, 1959

Mr. Robert W. John,
Lyceum Committee,
N. C. College,
Burham, N. C.

Dear Mr. John:

Thank you very much for your letter
telling me that your lyceum series for the
year is filled, but that you inform other
groups on your campus about my coming to
North Carolina.

With cordial regards,

634 St. Nicholas Avenue,
New York, 30, New York,
October 18, 1943.

Dr. James E. Shepard,
N. C. College for Negroes,
Durham, North Carolina.

Dear Dr. Shepard,

I would indeed be delighted to come to North Carolina College
again. I am appearing at Hampton on the 29th of November so
that date would not be feasible, but Mrs. Lee writes me that
you have agreed on December 2nd. Would you kindly confirm
that? Since I have other engagements in the immediate vici-
nity, my fee for each, since they are consecutive, is Fifty
Dollars. I trust this will be agreeable to you. With kindest
regards, as ever,

NORTH CAROLINA MUTUAL
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA

Office of the President

January 27, 1966

Mr. Langston Hughes
c/o Alfred Knopf
501 Madison Avenue
New York, New York

Dear Mr. Hughes:

We are planning the dedication of our new home office building the weekend of April 1, 1966 (April 1-3). We expect this to be not only one of the most memorable occasions in this community's history, but also one of national and international significance. The excitement is already running high.

The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company is a symbol of Negro enterprise and of what can be accomplished by a minority group in a democracy, and under the free enterprise system. Articles about our new building and its uniqueness and significance have appeared in TIME Magazine (February 7, 1964, page 90), ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, THE NEW YORK TIMES, and other leading news media and trade journals, domestic and foreign.

Our plans call for joint participation by Government, Education, and Business. The Departments of State, Commerce, and Labor; the Office of the Governor; Duke University, North Carolina College at Durham, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are cooperating with us in planning the activities surrounding the dedication. One of the features will be a symposium, participated in by representatives of Government, Education, the Arts, Business, Industry, and Labor. We feel that this will be a most noteworthy and meaningful occasion, both nationally and internationally. People in all walks of life from across the nation, and representatives of foreign countries are expected to be in attendance at the dedication.

We would like for the major emphasis of our symposium to be on the Negro's achievements and/or contributions to American life--past, present, and projections as to the future--so as to give a better balance to his image. We feel that a positive, as well as a negative, image should be projected from time to time since the whole of his life in America has not been confined to the ghettos, nor all of his efforts to perpetrating crimes. On the contrary, with his limited opportunities, he has demonstrated his power to become an asset in many fields; and in many instances, has raised himself by his own "boot straps."

February 5, 1966

Mr. A. T. Spaulding,
North Carolina Mutual,
Durham, North Carolina.

Dear Mr. Spaulding:

In response to your kind invitation of January 27
inviting me be a Resource Participant at the literary
Seminar on April 1 in Durham, I regret very much that
I must decline as I shall be at the Dakar Festival of
Negro Arts in Senegal, West Africa, at that time.

I remember with great pleasure past appearances
in Durham, and so am very sorry I cannot come there
again this time. But I am grateful to you for think-
ing of me.

With cordial regards and admiration for the great
contributions to us all of North Carolina Mutual, I am

April 20, 1947

Miss Thelma C. Nelson, President
Negro Library Association
Shaw University
Raleigh, North Carolina

Dear Miss Nelson:

Thank you very much for your kind invitation to
address the annual meeting of the Library
Association next October. I very much regret
that I cannot now tell you whether I will be in
the East at that time or not, since I plan to
go to California this summer and the time that I
shall come back to the East is not yet
determined. I think, however, that I will be
on the West Coast until the new year and, for
that reason, my lecture agency is not accepting
any engagements for me until after January 1,
1948.

I am enclosing a lecture folder for you, and it
is to W. Colston Leigh, Inc., that one must
write for my bookings.

I send you all my good wishes.

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