THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS

1078 MADISON AVENUE
NEW YORK, N. Y. 10028

18 August 1966

Dear Mr. Hughes:

It would give us pleasure if you would
consent to appear to read your poetry on
our series at the Guggenheim on Thursday
evening, 13 October, with another poet, Miss
Léonie Adams. This would be the opening
program of the year and Miss Marianne Moore
would introduce you and Miss Adams. The
honorarium would be $100.00. We should like
to know of your decision in time to go to
press in early September. It would help
Miss Moore to have a few autobiographical
data and we should like to know which of
your most recent titles we should mention
in our program notes which cannot accommodate
a list of complete works. I very much hope
that we shall hear that we may expect you as
your presence indeed will help to make our
opening the significant event we should like
it to be.

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 127 Street
New York, New York 10005

August 22, 1966

Miss Elizabeth Kray,
Academy of American Poets,
1078 Madison Avenue,
New York, 10028.

Dear Miss Kray:

I am happy to accept your invitation to read my poems with Miss Leonie Adams at the Guggenheim on the evening of October 13 on the terms mentioned in your letter. (And I adore Marianne Moore!).....My last two books are underlined in red on the enclosed list. In these rather dreary times, it might enliven the evening if I choose a selection of my humorous poems for our program, as I think I will......

Please let me know the details of time and place beforehand.

THE ACADEMY OF

AMERICAN POETS

1078 MADISON AVENUE

NEW YORK, N. Y. 10028

YUkon 8-6783

January 24, 1967

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 127 Street
New York, N.Y. 10035

Dear Mr. Hughes,

I am wondering if you would honor us by being our Poetry
Editor for one issue of Poetry Pilot.

It simply means, as you will have noted in the issues
you receive, selecting six or eight poems that are not too long,
possibly on one subject, or, if not, your special favorites. We
would like to schedule you for early summer.

If any of the poems you select are not in the public
domain, we would much appreciate knowing the sources in the form
we generally use: title of book, publisher and year of publication,
or name of magazine and date of issue, plus the correct copyright
credit. This latter is a recent requirement we are trying to ful-
fill to help protect the poets whose poems we use. The enclosed
sheet will simplify these requests.

You may have noticed that we also use brief biographical
material and would love to know about your very latest work.

With much appreciation for anything you can do for us,

I am

Enclosure

Title of poem

Poet

Title of book

Publisher

Year of publication

Copyright credit

Magazine

Issue

Title of poem

Poet

Title of book

Publisher

Year of publication

Copyright credit

Magazine

Issue