LINCOLN UNIVERSITY

FOUNDED AS LINCOLN INSTITUTE 1866
BY THE 62ND AND 65TH UNITED STATES
COLORED INFANTRIES, AND SUPPORTED
BY THE STATE OF MISSOURI

JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI

OFFICE OF
PUBLIC RELATIONS

October 27, 1942

Mr. Langston Hughes
Yaddo
Saratoga Springs, N. Y.

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Receipt is acknowledged of your letter of October
nineteenth advising us that you will appear in lecture-
recital at Stowe College in St. Louis on Wednesday, Novem-
ber eighteenth.

We would be glad to present you to our student
body Tuesday evening, November seventeenth or Thursday,
November nineteenth.

Due to limited budgetary allotment for this type
of campus activity, we are not able to make a very
lucrative offer for such worthy services. We are able to
offer $50.00, together with expenses to and from St. Louis
for your appearance with us.

We hope you can find it convenient to accept our
terms and either of the dates mentioned.

CCD/w
CC Mr. A. S. Pride, Chairman
Public Relations Committee

634 St. Nicholas Avenue,
Apt. 1-D, c/o Harper,
New York, New York,
November 1, 1942.

Mr. C. C. Damel,
Lincoln University,
Jefferson City, Mo.,

Dear Mr. Damel,

I am delighted to accept an engagement for an appearance at
Lincoln University on the evening of Thursday, November 19th,
for a lecture-reading of my poems at the terms given in your
letter of October 27th.

I will send you publicity material in a few days from New York
as I am leaving Saratoga tomorrow. From now until November 15th
I can be reached at the above address.

At the moment I have no train schedules here for Jefferson City,
but I will let you know the time of my arrival later. I shall
have to leave in time to be in Indianapolis for an appearance on
the evening of the twentieth. I judge an early morning train
via St. Louis would put me there in time.

I am happy to come to Lincoln University for the first time. I
was born in Joplin, you know.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

STATE OF ILLINOIS
SENATE
WILLIAM A. WALLACE
Third Senatorial District
3638 Indiana Avenue
CHICAGO

Mr. Langston Hughes
c/o Mrs. Elsie Mountain
Y.W.C.A. Paseo Branch
Kansas City Mo.

LINCOLN UNIVERSITY

JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

May 3, 1950

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

Dear Mr. Hughes:

We are all very happy to know that you will be with us for the dedication exercises May 19 and 20. You will be pleased to know, I am sure, that also participating in them (on four different programs) will be Arna Bontemps, S. I. Hayakawa, Melvin Tolson, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden (at Fisk), plus some Missouri people. You will soon receive a preliminary announcement of the exercises.

Until a couple of days ago we were planning to have you appear with Sterling Brown, Melvin Tolson, and Robert Hayden in a fifteen to twenty minute reading of selections of your own poetry, perhaps with very brief explanations or comments. That still goes for Friday afternoon at 2:00. Would it be asking too much, at this date, to ask you to join in a symposium with Bontemps, Brown and Lorenzo Greene on The Negro Author Today? The idea is for you to talk about fifteen minutes on the Negro playwright (or the Negro on the theatrical scene), Bontemps on fiction, Brown on poetry, Greene on scholarship - the latter naturally with special attention to the social scientists. The questions you gentlemen would be answering are, Is there any post-World-War II phenomenon corresponding to the "Black Renaissance" of the 1920's? If not, why not? What is the present state with regard to writing? What is the outlook? Obviously fifteen minutes worth of answers to these is not expected to be too deep. That is why I have the nerve to ask you on two weeks' notice if you will accept. Please drop me a card right away.

Everything else is working out nicely. If you will let us know beforehand what train you will come on from St. Louis, we'll meet you at the station. And by all means bring Simple along. The Librarian plans a display of books by our great authors, and Simple will be there.

July 14, 1964

Dear Mr. Pawley:

I very much appreciating your
inviting me to be a pannelist on the
Alpha seminar on "The Written Word"
but unfortunately I am preparing to
go to Europe and so regretfully can-
not put any engagements on my calendar
this summer.. But I am grateful to
you for the invitation.

Cordial regards and good wishes
ever,