October 2, 1960

Dear Nina:

La vie est difficile, tu sais---as
the song says---"working on the chain---
GANG" redoing 29 times my play TAMBOURINES
TO GLORY for pending (so the Theatre Guild
says) Broadway production.....Anyhow, I've
been thinking of you often and of our
pleasant meeting at Newport, and listening
often to your record made there which I
like very much, and meaning to get in touch
with you. But you know how hard it is to
get ahold of anybody in New York, and I
don't have a phone number for you.....The
point of all this being, we are going to
cook a <u>coon</u>---not a possum but a COON that
a friend brought us from Down South. If
you like coon, and are in town, and are
free, lemme know, and come up next Sunday
around 6:30-7 to help eat said coon. If
you don't like coon, come anyhow and eat
whatever else there will be. If you'd like
to bring someone, O. K. come ahead. The
Sunday I am talking about is Sunday, October 9. The place above address. My phone
number: LE 4-2952 after 3 P. M. which is
about when I wake up, since I work at night.
If you can't come Sunday, hope to see you
soon anyhow. And make your concert if I can.
And say Hello again, so phone me, please, m'am.

Cordial regards, and sing on---#

*Sounds so good!*

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 E. 127th St.
New York 35, N.Y.

June 18, 1963

Dear Nina: [Simone]

As I phoned Andy, Carl Van Vechten
would like to take photographs of you at
his apartment studio. (You have probably
read about him recently in the NEW YORKER
and ESQUIRE. He has photographed practi-
cally everybody in the theatre from Tulluhah
Bankhead to Harry Belafonte, and his pictures
go to all the leading theatre collections in
the libraries and museums. They're good).
So I've taken the liberty of giving him
your address. His is:

Mr. Carl Van Vechten,
146 Central Park West,
New York 23, New York
(EN. 2-3748)

I am trying to finish 50-11 projects
and get off to Europe next week to catch
BLACK NATIVITY in Paris before it closes
its second engagement there. Will be gone
maybe six or eight weeks.

I've wondering if you ever met my
biographer (doing a book about me) and your
neighbor, James Emanuel (and wife and son)
just across the street from you. Nice folks.
He teaches at City College.

I want to see you-all and your baby
sometime when I get back. Mentioning you
in my POST column about Newport Jazz Festi-
val coming out next week.

Best ever, and regards to Andy,

January 31, 1964

Dear Nina,

The evening at your house was a lot of fun...THANKS! And I do think we are helping to make a new star.

In case your recording session for next week is not set as yet, you might look over these two songs. I think SEE-LINE WOMAN is particularly suited for you... custom-made. At any rate, I think you might like them.*

With cordial and fond regards,

*They are by my secretary, George Bass, whom you have met. He doing some quite good radio and TV scripts filmed at NYU where he is studying that media. One of the networks is interested in airing them next season, and these songs are in one of the scripts. Might be something you'd like, particularly the SEA LION WOMAN one which has a real folk quality.

STROUD PRODUCTIONS, Inc.

MO 7-5871

419 TECUMSEH AVENUE
MT. VERNON, N. Y.

Exclusive Management of
Nina Simone

Enclosed are guest tickets to see the
amazing NINA SIMONE at Carnegie Hall
March 21, 1964.

If you cannot attend the performance,
would you be kind enough to return the
tickets to the above address.

Thank You,
A. B. Stroud

RECORDS - CONCERTS - BOOKINGS

January 26, 1965

Dear Nina:

Your Carnegie Hall concert was terrific! Except that you don't need an orchestra. You YOURSELF are enough for anybody's money.

Hope to see you before I go back to Europe in the Spring.

Cordial regards to you and Andy,

January 15th 1965

Dear Nina,

When I was in Paris, Jimmy Davis,
who is one of the composers of "Lover Man,"
asked me to give you this French recording
of his song WHY IS A GOOD MAN SO HARD TO
FIND? He thought that you might find it
interesting.

Encls.

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