1121 Nelson Avenue
Bronx 52, New York

May 27, 1957

Dear Friend:

On June 22, 1957, New Artists is paying a musical
tribute to Mrs. Nora Holt, one of our most distinguished musi-
cal personalities, at the Y.M.C.A., 180 West 135 Street, New York City.

Mrs. Holt has been a guiding inspiration to young
artists; and has been instrumental in contributing to the success
of many outstanding artists.

Your presence would, indeed, be appreciated in making
this musical tribute a success.

General admission is $1.50; patron tickets are $2.00,
which will list your name on the Patron List.

Enclosed is a self-addressed envelope for remittance,
which must be returned within 10 days of receipt of this letter.

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

320 Terrace Ave.
West Haven, Conn.

January 2, 1966

Mr. Langston Hughes
C/O Dodd Meade & Co.
432 Park Avenue South
New York, N.Y. 10016

Dear Mr. Hughes:

The Board of Education in New Haven, Connecticut is interested in promoting better racial understanding in our schools and throughout the City. As a part of their program, they have used busses to relieve imbalance in the schools, Negro History has been taught successfully in the Summer Sessions, and workshops for racial relationships have been conducted.

Naturally, there has been criticism and opposition to the program. Surprisingly, much of the opposition has come from the teachers who found it difficult to accept and understand the Negro children.

Negro History has not been introduced into the regular curriculum because we know that before it can be a successful part of the curriculum, the teachers themselves must have knowledge and understanding of the subject.

It is felt there must be considerable more education to acquaint the teachers and the public with facts about Negroes and the contributions they have made and are making to society.

We have formed a Committee which is dedicated to acquainting the public with some of the facts. Our Committee is planning a program for Brotherhood Week. We would like to exhibit works of art, literature, and general information about the accomplishments of the Negro.

I have been asked to contact you about the possibility of appearing in New Haven as a part of our program.

I would like to make an appointment to discuss the project in detail with you.

Whatever, date you set, except January 13th, will be convenient with me.

January 19th 1966

Mrs. Bertha Jamieson
320 Terrace Avenue
West Haven, Connecticut

Dear Mrs. Jamieson:

Because Mr. Hughes is in Paris at the moment, I am answering your kind invitation in his behalf. Your program sounds most interesting indeed and I am very sorry to have to tell you that because Mr. Hughes is going to go to the World Festival of Arts in Dakar, Senegal shortly after his return to New York, it will not be possible for him to participate in your program for Brotherhood Week. I know that he will be very pleased to know that you thought of him when he sees your letter upon his return from Paris.

NEW HAVEN
Jewish Community

CENTER

1156 CHAPEL STREET, NEW HAVEN, CONN. 06511

TEL. 865-5181

ELIHU R. JACOBSON
PRESIDENT

LOUIS M. SHANOK
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

STANLEY SPRECHMAN
ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

September 28, 1966

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

Dear Mr. Hughes:

We are celebrating a city-wide Children's Book Fair here October 30 to November 4 in cooperation with the National Children's Book Council. We hope to present a program of intimate involvement with books and the creative people who produce them, the authors and illustrators.

I have been, for many years, a joyful reader of your poems, stories and plays. And I admire and respect the work you and Mickey Meltzer did together. We are inviting you and Mickey (and Hildy, too) to join in the program for Tuesday evening, November 1, which is being sponsored by the PTA Council. We are trying to bring together through this Book Fair a wide variety of people, and felt that you, as a poet, can set the right tone.

Mr. Farrell of Lincoln University suggested that the alumni in this area could be interested, too, if you were to make a visit here. Since we live right in New Haven, we would like you to be our guest along with the Meltzers. I believe that you met my husband, Bill Cahn, many years ago. He and Mickey have known each other for quite awhile.

I hope you will be able to make the short trip from New York and will join us at home and at the Book Fair.

RC:mrs

Affiliated with the UNITED FUND • JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL • NATIONAL JEWISH WELFARE BOARD

October 1, 1966

Mrs. William Cahn
New Haven Jewish Community Center
1156 Chapel Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511

Dear Mrs. Cahn,

I remember such pleasant times in New Haven
on previous engagements there that I very
much wish I could come to your children's
book fair this fall, but having been out of
the country for more than four months, and
so swamped with urgent deadlines, and an
enormous pile of accumulated mail to answer,
I regret that I cannot take any engagements
this season. I very much appreciate your
inviting me, however, and thank you for your
kind invitation to be your guest.

Langston Hughes

You are cordially invited
to be present at the
Dedication of the
New Havre de Grace Consolidated School
Swan Creek, Maryland
Sunday, afternoon, at three-thirty p. m.

May, the ninth
Nineteen hundred and fifty four

NEW JERSEY COLLEGE FOR WOMEN

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
NEW BRUNSWICK NEW JERSEY

April 3, 1944

Mr. Langston Hughes
c/o Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
730 Fifth Avenue
New York, N. Y.

My dear Mr. Hughes:

Would it be possible for you to come out to our college some
time this spring and give a talk before an audience of students and
faculty? Our students this year have been keenly interested in the
question of race prejudice, especially as it affects the Negroes of
the country, and they have shown a most commendably liberal attitude
on the subject. So far they have considered the matter, and heard it
discussed, chiefly from the economic and sociological angles. It oc-
curs to me that they might also profitably consider the Negro from
the literary or artistic point of view, and I think you are the man
to present that phase of the matter. I base this opinion largely on
The Big Sea,
which I have just read with great delight and benefit.

What I have in mind is an informal talk on the Negro as
artist in modern America, a talk that might be concerned mainly with
discussing the accomplishments of Negro artists and writers, about
which most people know very little, together with some stress on the
special problems that Negro artists and writers face. Or, if you
have some other approach in mind, perhaps a talk that you have al-
ready given somewhere, I am sure we should be much interested in that.
My chief thought is that the talk should deal with literary and artis-
tic, rather than with more purely sociological, material.

We haven't a great deal of money for such purposes, but we
can offer you an honorarium of fifty dollars. As to the time, I feel
sure we could fit our program to your convenience. So if you feel that
you can come, would you be so good as to name several evenings during
the latter part of this month or the first half of May on which you
will be free, and then we will select the one that fits our college
calendar best. I very much hope we can get together on this.