December 22, 1945

Dear Mignon:

I shall be giving programs of my poems in Utah at Cedar
Rapids on January 28, at Brigham Young University at Provo on
the 30th, at Weber College in Ogden on the 31st, and in Logan
on February 1. I shall probably arrive in Salt Lake City on
the night of January 26, and will have one or two nights in
between time there. Would you and Tom be able to put me up
while I am in Salt Lake City? I have always enjoyed your
hospitality before and would be happy if I could stay with you
again. Please drop me a line in care of

Mrs. Dorothy Johnson
697 East Vernon Avenue
Los Angeles, California.

I am leaving within a few days by air for the Coast.

All my good wishes to you and your family for happy holidays.

January 11, 1946

Mrs. Tom Richmond
453 E. 7th Street, South
Salt Lake City, Utah

Dear Mignon:

I was very happy to receive your little note and to know that I shall have the pleasure of stopping with you again. I shall be happy to see the new little baby, and I am sure she will not keep me awake. I am very fond of children and have never found them disturbing.

Since I shall be in and out of Salt Lake for four or five days, I hope that you will let me be a "paying guest". I am having a bag expressed to your address, and also have laundry being sent on to me from New York, so kindly hold whatever mail and parcels may arrive until I get there. I shall be arriving via United Air Lines Flight 2 at 5:44 p.m. on January 26th.

It will be a pleasure to see you and your family again. With all good wishes,

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Mr Fangstow Hughes.
634 - St Nicholas Ave.,
New York City,
N.Y.

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Salt Lake City, 2 uh.

Mr Langston Hughes
634- St. Nicholas ave
New York City, N.Y.

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Mr Fangston Hughes
20-East 125th Street
new york 35
new york

MRS. T. W. RICHMOND
453 EAST 7TH SOUTH
SALT LAKE CITY 2 UTAH

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Mr Langston Hughes
20-E-127th St.
New York 35 newyork

March 4, 1953

Mrs. Mignon Richmond
453 East Seventh Street, South
Salt Lake City, Utah

Dear Mignon,

It was certainly very nice having your birthday card—and a full and complete letter inside it. We think of you often. Aunt Toy sends you her love. She has been half up and half down most of the winter, and is going to Medical Center twice a week for treatments.

I made a note to send you the new book for the N.A.A.C.P. as soon as it comes out about the end of April.

And under separate cover I am sending you some material for Mr. Fleming concerning the concert of Negro music and poetry, combination that I have been working with this season. Tell him that late February or early March of next year, 1954, would be a good time to have us in Salt Lake City as we expect to be in Missouri and Kansas during 1954 Negro History Week, some dates having already been secured there.

I must sign off now because the accountant is coming to work out our income tax in a few minutes.

With best wishes to Tom.

April 2, 1955

Dear Mignon, How nice to hear that you are shortly heading our way! We'll be delighted to see you, and wish we could invite you to stay with us but, at the moment, there's even a student sleeping in the dining room, the house being full up this winter. (And, as you say, a downtown hotel will be more convenient for you for meetings and getting around—but it would be nice to have you here). Anyhow, feel free to use our house as much as you like. And if you'd like to have some folks in, or special friends over, any afternoon or evening, we'd be delighted. At your service! And certainly we hope to see you here. The phone number is now ATwater 9-6559. And remember it is EAST 127th. Some folks forget and go West. Let me know when you get to town and what hotel you'll be at.

I've gotten you three good front-row balcony seats for HOUSE OF FLOWERS for Monday evening, April 25th. There was nothing good left for Saturday night, and you didn't say if you'd like Saturday matinee or not. But the Monday night seats are good ones, $4.60 each, so you have a little change coming. It's mostly a dancing show, so I think balcony's better than $6.60 orchestra, since you can look down and see all the flying feet. The show is amusing. I saw it New Years Eve... Wish Cafe Society were still open. There's no place quite like it now (the one in the Village is not the same, other management) and there's nothing much in Harlem show-wise any more. Amusement tax is too high here. Chicago's much better on the South Side for music and shows.

If there's anything else I can do in advance to make your stay pleasant, let me know. Best to Tom and all.

Sincerely,

September 14, 1956

Dear Mignon:

The peaches just arrived yesterday and are as beautiful and welcome as usual and I have already eaten one for each meal which makes three. Everybody in the house is the same as ever and Mrs. Harper has been climbing on ladders of late, washing walls and, in August, celebrated her 88th birthday, but her mother in California recently celebrated her 86th.

I have been, so it seems, even busier than usual which is why I have not written, but my two major books are now at the printer and I have read proofs on them for late fall publication - A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE NEGRO IN AMERICA and the second volume of my autobiography, WANDER AS I WANDER. However I will have one or two other pressing deadlines hanging over me, and overdue, so I guess there is no rest for the colored author and the haven of Hollywood is still behind the white horizon.

Give my best to Tom and your daughter and know how very much we appreciate your thinking of us so often and so delightfully.

Mrs. Mignon Richmond
Salt Lake City, Utah

December 20, 1966

Dear Mignon:

So nice to hear you're in the East.
And we'll love to see you---and have you
as our guest. The unfortunate situation
however is that the house is now filled up
FULL with no sleeping room available un-
til after New Year's Day when Aunt Toy's
old friend, Mrs. Vodery, goes back to
Saratoga---since she is here for the whole
holiday week. And Emerson's childhood
friend and fellow MUSICAL-musician, Dr.
Dreher, from Chicago is occupying the other
spare room available to friends coming to
New York for a while, for a month or so.

Unfortunately, there are no good
hotels in the Harlem area---the Theresa
is hardly more than a rooming house now,
and shortly, I hear, to be torn down. But
I'll get you a reservation downtown---as
our guest---if you let us know exactly when
you'll be arriving, so the room will be ready.
Or if you'd rather come in early January---
like the 2nd or 3rd---or anytime you'd like,
then we'll have a guest room for you here
at home. I'm sorry about the current traf-
fic jam! But come anyway on the 26th or 27th
if you'd rather, and taxi up to see us,
and sit with Aunt Toy for a while. She's
in bed, but we hope might be able to come
downstairs for Christmas Dinner. At anym
rate, we'll be looking forward to seeing
you whenever you want to come. Emerson
just now says to tell you HELLO, and come
on.

MERRY CHRISTMAS to all down there.

January 10, 1967

Dear Mignon: [RICHMOND]

It was certainly good seeing you,
even under rather hectic circumstances.
Rosana is STILL in Harlem Hospital---they
found her at last! Had been on a cot in
the corridor awaiting a bed. Slight heart
condition is keeping her there, but not in
pain, and cheerful....Meanwhile Aunt Toy
is worsening steadily, and some days does
not even recognize Emerson. So the doctor
do not hold out much hope....And every day
Byrd, Emerson's neice whose husband was
buried New Year's Eve, leaving her alone in
the apartment around the corner, comes to
lay her troubles on his shoulders. So the
situation here is no better.....But I hope
you had a pleasant trip home. And come ba
to see us again....HAPPY NEW YEAR!

As ever, sincerely,

70

City New York City, New York

Name Mr. Langston Hughes

Address 20 East 127th Street

No. 46385

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