AGENZIA LETTERARIA INTERNAZIONALE

MILANO • CORSO MATTEOTTI 3 • TELEFONO 793-609

Mr.
Langston Hughes
20 East 127th Street
New York 35, N.Y.
U.S.A.

Milan, August 6th, 1954

Dear Mr. Hughes,

Messrs. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore have passed on to us the
contents of your letter regarding the transfer of royalties due on their
edition of MULATTO.

Until last year, according to instructions received from Mr. Lieber,
for whom we acted as sub-agents, we sent all your royalties to Mr. Lieber's
bank-account in New York. - Last year; however, a hitch occurred, and
permission to remit the 1952 royalties was not granted. We have no had
Mondadori's statements for 1953, and we think it would be possible to
send both the 1952 and 1953 royalties to your New York address.

If you agree to this, perhaps you could let us know: we will then let
you have a statement covering the past two years (the sum accrued is,
I'm afraid, a rather small one), and, on receipt of your invoice in
duplicate for the amount due, we will apply for a transfer permit to
New York. - I hope, though, that this shall be all right with Mr. Lieber,
who has not, so far, given instructions to terminate payments to his
New York account.

As to SIMPLE SPEAKS HIS MIND, which we sold to Mondadori, this is not
yet published, and, much as we have tried, we have not yet obtained a
firm publication date from Mondadori. - Do you wish us to terminate
your contract with them? They did not, as you know, purchase SIMPLE
TAKES A WIFE, which we got from Harold Ober Associates whom we have been
representing in this Country for several years.

L'AGENZIA LETTERARIA INTERNAZIONALE NON È RESPONSABILE IN ALCUN MODO DEI MANOSCRITTI AFFIDATILE

April 23, 1955

Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale
Milano
Corso Matteotti 3
Spain

Gentlemen:

I certainly should have answered your letter of
August 6, 1954, but I have been very busy meeting
deadlines on books and have been out of town lectur-
ing a great deal, and, unfortunately, my correspond-
ence has been badly neglected.

Mr. Maxim Lieber is no longer in business in New York
and is living in Mexico City. He has recently asked
other publishers to pay their royalties directly to me,
and I am sure that that is what he would now wish
Mondadori Editors to do. So, whatever royalties are
due me on MULATTO, or any others works of mine pub-
lished by Mondadori Editore, you may send directly
to me at the above address.

In regard to SIMPLE SPEAKS HIS MIND, unless you have
another publisher for it in Italy, I would say not to
terminate our contract with Mondadori, but to permit
Mondadori to bring out the book whenever they find it
feasible to do so.

Thank you very much for your interest in these matters.

lh-hs

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FONDATA NEL 1898
DA AUGUSTO FOÀ

MILANO - CORSO MATTEOTTI 3 - TELEFONO 793-609

Milan, July 12th, 1955

Dear Mr. Hughes,

our correspondence seems to be ill-fated: your letter
of the 23rd April was routed to Rome from Spain (you had addressed it
to Spain instead of Italy, I'm afraid) and reached us only two or
three days ago.

I now enclose a statement covering the sales of Mulatto, in Mondadori's edition, from 1952 to 1954 (inclusive). I should be grateful if you could let us have an invoice, in duplicate, signed, for the amount due. The invoice should carry the following notice:

"The above amount is now payable to me, as author of
'Mulatto', since Mr. Maxim Lieber, my literary agent,
is no longer in business and is in fact no longer
living in the United States of America."

On the strength of your invoice, we will presumably get permission
to pay you within about 60 days. Subsequent transfer permits will
of course be granted much more quickly.

I have made a note of what you say about SIMPLE SPEAKS HIS MIND,
and we will act according to your instructions.

AGENZIA LETTERARIA INTERNAZIONALE to Mr. Lagston Hughes, New York

STATEMENT OF SALES OF THE ITALIAN EDITION OF "MULATTO", A PLAY BY LANGSTON HUGHES

Italian Publishers: Mondadori, Milan

Italian title: MULATTO

Period covered: Jan.1st, 1955 - Dec.31st, 1956

Sales:

a) to June 30th, 1956:

169 copies at 250 Lire and 10% royalty Lire 4.225

b) from July 1st to Dec.31st, 1956

27 copies at 250 Lire and 10% royalty " 675

181 copies at reduced price of 100 Lire and 10% royalty " 1.810

Total earned " 6.710

Minus 2.52% Italian income-tax on sales under b) " 63

Minus 10% commission Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale " 671

Minus transfer charges " 150

Net balance due, for which please send signed invoice " 5.826

As per original statements received from Messrs. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore,
Milan.

Milan, Dec.10th, 1957

p.p. Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale