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1977 West 29th Street
Los Angeles, California

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Mr. Langston Hughes
2256 East 86th Street
Cleveland, Ohio

August 20, 1936

Dear Langston Hughes:

I am writing a book about Billy Still, and in it he wants me to include a chapter about Race, brother-ly love, etc. As the chapter stands now, I have a paragraph about you in it. May I quote it to you, and request that if you object to it, or if it does not represent what you are trying to do, that you send me some kind of a statement as to what your aims really are, so that I can be entirely correct? Here goes:

"Langston Hughes was another who was brave enough to attempt to remedy certain evils. He wrote new poems, he lectured. What happened? White people denounced him as a communist. Colored people quoted his new poems but seldom, and each time would delicately qualify them with the statement that it was this sort of brutal frankness on Hughes' part which had offended some of "our better colored people". As a matter of fact, the main thing that Langston Hughes was trying to do was to awaken everyone to the need of brotherly love. Even the Bible teaches that!"

There will be more about you...but only in anecdotes...not worth quoting at the moment. And what I have just quoted will undoubtedly be changed as I go over the book to correct it...but that is the gist of it. Do you mind? Something might come of this book...there are possibilities and I'm praying,

I'm also writing a book on dance and music

["MUSIC OF THE AMERICAS", "LECTURE - PIANO RECITAL", "by", "VERNA ARVEY", "at the", "PACIFIC INSTITUTE OF MUSIC AND FINE ART", "SUNDAY - NOVEMBER 21, 1937 8:45 P. M.", "- PROGRAM -", "MEXICO", "1. Preludio Mexicano . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Mr. Langston Hughes
Hollow Hills Farm
Carmel, California

Yarboro in Brussels but she didn't get down to Paris as she was ill all summer, but recovering......Saw the Robesons in London and the graves in the Abbey. And had a swell time in general and hated to come home, as usual, but had to for lectures. So unfortunately, I just missed the final excitement of the war scare.....Tell Billy I'll do the synopsis he wants *soon*, next-week end if I possibly can. Tomorrow I go out of town again.....I love the "But their ghosts rise up to haunt my soul" lines in your aria. I'm dying to hear all of it. Is it just about done? Boy, do I hope we get a production on it soon, maybe during xmas during the fair! I hope the stars are right. .....I have several ballet ideas to talk over with Billy (besides the Life Of Buddha, which I intend to do, if I have to write the music and dance it myself.)

Well, I must go to rehearsal...

Salud!