HOWARD UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS
WASHINGTON 1, D. C.

DEPARTMENT OF ART

September 12, 1963

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

Dear Mr. Hughes:

This letter is long overdue but I trust that you will
pardon my delay in that so many things normally happen at the
beginning of school. Allow me to thank you for your kind
invitation to have lunch with you and I am sure that you are
aware of the fact that I thoroughly enjoyed it. In addition to
this, I would like to thank you for the books which I have read
and found extremely interesting and express the same sentiment
for the children. They plan to write to you very soon.

I sincerely hope that you had a very pleasant visit
in Europe and I am certain that you found a great deal of
material for the creative interest which you have so well
displayed throughout your dynamic career as one of America's
most important writers. We spent the Summer at the cottage
in Maine and there was some time for painting and a few visits
to museums, summer theaters and such places of interest. I
trust that we shall have the pleasure of having you visit us
there in the near future. Also, we will be happy to have you
visit with us upon your return to Washington.

I am sending, under separate cover, a small gouache
painting entitled "Antique Chair". This is a study of an
old Victorian type chair which to me may be most fitting for a
poet and writer as it has attached to it certain sentimental
and historic values. I trust that you will find it appropriate
for your household.

Best wishes for your continued success and we are
hopeful that we shall have the pleasure of hearing from you
within the near future.

DCD/as