Fuquay Consolidated School
Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina

February 3, 1966

Mr. Langston Hughes
152 West 131st Street
New York, New York

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Would you please consider an invitation from us to deliver our Commencement Address in May? This year we are doing an entire unit of work on the Negro and it would mean so much to us and to this community to have you come. For our Senior Class, as well as for us, this would be an event to remember.

We understand that your schedule is pretty well filled at all times, but if you can accommodate us we will be most appreciative. In case you are wondering where Fuquay-Varina is, it is a small town just twenty miles south of Raleigh, North Carolina.

February 21, 1966

Miss J. Simona Lee
Fuquay Consolidated School
Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina

Dear Miss Lee,

Mr. Hughes was delighted to receive
your kind invitation to speak at your
Commencement Exeekbessin May. He is
sorry that he cannot accept, however,
because he will be in Africa where he
will participate in the First World
Festival of Negro Arts at Dakar, Senegal
and tour other parts of Africa for the
U.S.I.S. He thanks you for thinking of
him.

M. Surgerson
600 Cottage St.
Waterloo, Iowa

Mr. Langston Hughes
e/o The Chicago Defender
3533 W. Indiana Avenue
Chicago, Illinois

63 St. Nicholas Ave.
New York 20, N.Y.

(Please forward,

Mr. Langston Hughes
634 St. Nicholas Ave.
New York City, 10105

FURMAN UNIVERSITY

FOUNDED 1826
GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA

August 17, 1960

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

Dear Mr. Hughes:

We are preparing data for the second series of "How Do You Say It?," an educational television program in language arts and literature beamed to the elementary school. The program is telecast over station WFBC-TV (Channel 4).

While we use, for the most part, literature in the public domain, we like occasionally to introduce current literature. Publishers have been kind to grant special permission for copyrighted material.

We should appreciate your permission to include the material from GOLDEN SLIPPERS which is listed below in multilithed copies to be sent to classroom teachers and to be read on the telecast on a one-time basis.

"City" Langston Hughes
"Cycle" " "

We should also like for you to quote us the fee in case we should have the material printed in order to place it in the hands of the pupils.

I thank you for your courtesy.

jm

September 12, 1960

Miss Sara Lowrey,
Department of Speech,
Furman University,
Greenville, S. C.

Dear Miss Lowrey:

I am happy to grant my permission for the use of my
poems, CITY and CYCLE, on the educational TV program,
HOW DO YOU SAY IT?, also in multilithed or printed copies
for local distribution to teachers and pupils. I am
sorry to have been so long in answering your letter, but
I have been out of New York during the summer production
of my play, TAMBOURINES TO GLORY, at Westport.