August 8th 1964

Dear Mr. Fahnestock,

Thank you so kindly for sending me a
copy of your setting of my poem SHARE
CROPPERS which I have just had played
over for me by a friend. I find it
quite interesting and am pleased that
you chose it for a musical setting.

Again, many thanks.

Mr. Karol Fahnestock
Box 473 - P. O. Station
Richmond, Indiana
47374

FAIR PLAY PARTY

Organized to strengthen Harlem's fight for better jobs . . . support the
campaign to win economic and political equality . . . and develop a leadership
which will serve the interests of the people only.

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CARL D. LAWRENCE, Chairman
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CHARLES DILWORTH, General Organizer

CLARENCE E. REESE, Publicity Director

DOUGLAS PUGH, Executive Director

ROSETTA BEVERLY, Administrative Assistant

October 2, 1952

Dear Langston:

You no doubt have heard by now that my efforts to serve
the people of the 12th Assembly District in the State
Legislature are meeting with tremendous handicaps.

As a matter of fact, my employers have dismissed me
after 14 years of service on the Amsterdam News.

I shall continue to fight though and I certainly hope
that you will continue to cooperate with our mutual pro-
gram for better jobs and good political leadership.

We are urgently in need of money to carry the campaign
through to its successful end. Will you be kind enough
to send a contribution at your earliest convenience.

Thanking you, I am

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Miss Marguerite Moorman
Christopher Lindsey

Miss Betty Brown
Neville Sealey
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Robert Campbell
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Julius White

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John Pierce
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Lionel Spears
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCE
WASHINGTON SQUARE, NEW YORK

HENRY PRATT FAIRCHILD
Professor of Sociology

July 30, 1942

Mr. Langston Hughes
634 St. Nicholas Avenue
New York, N. Y.

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Within the next few days you will receive an invitation for a dinner on August 26th, which is being given by the Manhattan District Committees for the benefit of Russian War Relief.

In accepting the chairmanship of this dinner I was greatly encouraged to learn that you are a sponsor of the Harlem Committee, which is participating actively. I am writing to you now in the hope that I may count on your cooperation.

Now, more than ever, when our Russian allies are fighting so valiantly and so desperately, I feel that we must do all we can to minimize their suffering. Through this dinner we will be enabled to continue the flow of medical supplies that are shipped to them, and which convey, in a way that official aid cannot, the sympathy and understanding of the American people.

I can assure you that we will make as few demands as possible on your time. The important consideration for you and for us is your full support through sponsorship of this dinner, and the recognition of your leadership in this great cause.

I look forward to the pleasure of seeing you on the evening of August 26th.

CHICAGO
28 FEB 16
11:30 PM
1948
ILL

For Langston Hughes
(40 Chicago Defender
Chicago, Illinois
801 Hughes
634 St. Nicholas Ave. Apt. 10
New York, N.Y.)

April 21, 1947

Mr. LeRoy Fairchild, Jr.
1929 W. Hubbard Street
Chicago 22, Illinois

Dear Mr. Fairchild:

I regret that I do not know anyone whom I
could suggest who might criticize your
poetry for you, but such a magazine as the
WRITER'S MONTHLY usually contain advertise-
ments of persons who correct and criticize
manuscripts.

I, myself, am not a very good critic and
besides I get so many unsolicited manuscripts
to read that they often pile up for months,
and I find it very difficult to go through
them at all since I have more work of my own
than I can find time to keep up with especially
since I am teaching Creative Writing here at
Atlanta University and my students turn in a
great deal of material which I must read.

Certainly you have all my good wishes.

LH: wmb

April
-6-
1943

Mrs. Alice B. Fairclough
P. S. 113, Manhattan
240 West 113th Street
New York City

Dear Mrs. Fairclough:

I would be delighted to come and read some of my poems to the children of your school on June 25 at 9:00 A. M. (I do wish it were at 9:00 P. M., because I usually work very late at night. Nevertheless, I will try to be both bright and alert for the sake of the kids.)

Would you be so kind as to drop me a note a week or so before the date, letting me know how much time you would have me take.

LH:C

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Mr. Langston Hughes
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Fairleigh Dickinson University

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836-6300

November 8, 1965

Mr. Langston Hughes
c/o New York Post
75 West Street
New York, New York

Dear Mr. Hughes:

During the past few years the English Department of Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, New Jersey, has sponsored a series of lectures at which distinguished men and women of letters have spoken to the faculty and undergraduates of the University. This school year we would be honored if you would accept an invitation from us for the spring semester, probably the week of March 14, 1966. If that date, however, is inconvenient for you, we can easily arrange another time.

We will, of course, furnish transportation to and from the campus, and we would be pleased if you took lunch with us on the day of your talk. Our usual practice has been to schedule the lecture at three in the afternoon when many of our students and faculty are free from classroom duties. Details about lunch, transportation, and time can be worked out in future correspondence.

The subject of the talk is at your pleasure. The audience you address will consist primarily of undergraduates, many of them English majors. For your talk the University offers an honorarium of $100.00.

I look forward to an early reply from you.

VLS:ed

November 17th 1965

Mr. Vernon L. Schonert
Dept. of English
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Teaneck, New Jersey 07666

Dear Mr. Schonert:

I am very sorry that, due to heavy writing commitments (including theatre and television work which will take him to California), Mr. Hughes cannot accept any engagements for speaking this season at all. I know that he will greatly appreciate your kind invitation.

January 27, 1964

Mrs. Lorrie Alexander
626 Humboldt Parkway
Buffalo, New York

Dear Mrs. Alexander:

I appreciate your kind invitation to
spend an evening with the Faith Baptist
Church when I come to Buffalo. Unfortu-
nately, I do not know as yet when I will
be coming to Buffalo, although I do hope
to come sometime this Spring. And since
a definite date has not been established
as yet, I think it best that I accept no
engagements. I will advise you if and
when the trip becomes more certain.

With cordial regards to you,

March 19, 1960

Miss Judy M. Rodman,
Famous Artists Corporation,
610 Fifth Avenue,
New York 20, N. Y.

Dear Miss Rodman:

I very much appreciate being considered
as a possible adaptor for the theatre of
BROWN GIRL, BROWNSTONES, by Paule Marshall.
I read the novel when it first came out and
liked it very much indeed. It should make
an interesting play.

Unfortunately, however, I am so tied up
with contracts of my own---two books to turn
in during 1960, an impending Theatre Guild
play, TAMBOURINES TO GLORY, an anthology to
compile and edit, plus a heavy out-of-town
lecture schedule---that I cannot contemplate
taking on (or even thinking about) anything
else for a year or more. And I am afraid I
would find it more difficult adapting some
one else's work for the stage, than I would
writing a new play of my own---which, natur-
ally, I'd rather do. It is easier working
with one's own material. So, regretfully, I
am returning to you the copy of the novel
you sent. But with all good wishes and the
hope that it will achieve a successful stage
version. Thank you very much for your con-
sideration.

P.S. Possibly Wm. Branch - ele.

August 18th 1965

Mlle. Marie Josephpe Famy
Chatillon-de-Michaille (AIN)
FRANCE

Dear Mlle. Famy:

Because there are at least 200 books which
have Negro women characters and I have not
read many of them, I cannot give you a com-
plete list of such novels. But, I should
like to suggest especially the following
titles: THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING by
Carson McCullers; STRANGE FRUIT by Lillian
Smith; all of Zora Neale Hurston's novels;
Faulkner's novels with the Dilsey character;
You will find that in mostly all novels of
the South there are Negro women characters.

Under separate cover, I am sending you a
copy of my novel NOT WITHOUT LAUGHTER and
FIGHT FOR FREEDOM (The Story of the NAACP),
both of which have much material relating
to Negro women.

I wish you all the best with your project
which sounds most interesting.

P.S. I have also sent you a copy of THE
NEGRO MOTHER, one of my poems with an
illustration by Charles White.

LANGSTON HUGHES

20 EAST 127TH STREET
NEW YORK 35, N. Y.

August 18th 1965

Mlle. Marie Josephe Famy
Chatillon-de-Michaille (AIN)
FRANCE

Dear Mlle. Famy:

Because there are at least 200 books which
have Negro women characters and I have not
read many of them, I cannot give you a com-
plete list of such novels. But, I should
like to suggest especially the following
novels
 titles: THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING by
 Carson McCullers; STRANGE FRUIT by Lillian
 Smith; all of Zora Neale Hurston's novels;
 Faulkner's novels with the Dilsey character;
You will find that in most novels of
the South there are Negro women characters.

Under separate cover, I am sending you a
copy of my novel NOT WITHOUT LAUGHTER and
FIGHT FOR FREEDOM (The Story of the NAACP),
both of which have much material relating
to Negro women. and

I wish you an
the best with your project
which sounds most interesting.

F.B. I have also sent you a copy of THE
NEGRO MOTHER, one of my poems with an
illustration by Charles White.
there things will prove of some value
to you, and I am sorry I cannot pass
the help. Perhaps Pauls

August 18th 1965

Mlle. Marie Josephine Famy
Chatillon-de-Michaille (AIN)
FRANCE

Dear Mlle. Famy:

Because there are at least 200 novels which
have Negro women characters and I have not
read many of them, I cannot give you any
comments of value on them, nor can I supply
a complete list of such novels. But, I should
like to suggest especially the following
authors whom I have read: THE MEMBER OF THE
WEDDING by Carson McCullers; STRANGE FRUIT by
Lillian Smith; all of Zora Neale Hurston's
novels; Faulkner's novels with the Dilsey
character. You will find that in most novels
of the South by white or Negro authors, there
are Negro women characters.

Under separate cover by boat mail I am sending
you a copy of my novel NOT WITHOUT LAUGHTER,
the story of the NAACP FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, both
of which have material relating to Negro women
and one of my poems THE NEGRO MOTHER with an
illustration by Charles White. I hope these
things will prove of some value to you, and
I am sorry I cannot be of further help.
Perhaps Paule Marshall might help you. Her
address is:

Mrs. Paule Marshall
407 Central Park West
New York 25, N. Y.
(Apt. 4-C)

I wish you the best with your project which
sounds most interesting.

Sincerely yours,

September 5, 1962

Dear Al [FANN]

Enclosed is your letter from Ruth Kramer which you might want for your files. It seems that something will happen with TAMBOURINES at long last--the Guild swears to produce the show this Fall and as of now it seems that they will. Present plans are to go into rehearsal about the last week in September of first week in October. A four week road tour is scheduled in lieu of a theatre--clearance on the theatre should be known by next week. Clara and Nipsey have been optioned for the show which should create some excitement on the part of Theatre goers, especially with their recent successes.

My only suggestion is to keep in touch with Ruth Kramer and arrange to be in New York about the last week of September in case all turns out for the better.

Regards from L. H.