FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL

AUGUSTUS LUDWIG, PRINCIPAL
SHORE ROAD AT 83RD STREET
BROOKLYN 9, NEW YORK

Alfred A. Knöpf, Inc.

1805 Vine St
Kansas City, Mo.

501 Madison Avenue
New York, New York

Please forward to Mr. Langston Hughes
634 E. Nicholas Ave,
New York, N.Y.

STATION Y

BOARD OF EDUCATION

James Fenimore Cooper Junior High School
P. S. 120 MANHATTAN
1 EAST 120TH STREET - NEW YORK 35, N. Y.

Mr. Langston Hughes
634 St. Nicholas Avenue
c/o Harper
New York, N.Y.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS
City of Burlington
New Jersey

Vann H. Smith
Supervising Principal

Elizabeth A. Ditzell
Principal High School

October 23, 1944

Mr. Langston Hughes
222 Fourth Avenue
New York, N. Y.

My dear Mr. Hughes:

It was such a pleasure to have you with us to-day! I feel that your visit with us on this day has done more for inter-racial accord than we could have accomplished in a whole year without it. The I do feel that among the high school students there is less race prejudice by far than you would find in any other group, still it is good to have the inspiration which you gave to our boys and girls to-day. They will go out and talk it over among the adults, and that is where there is the need of understanding. If prejudice creeps into the hearts of our youth, it is planted there by adults, I feel.

I had hoped for at least a brief personal chat with you before you left. But the presence of a third party seemed to prevent it. Maybe you will come our way again. If you do, be sure there will always be a welcome here for you. The students with one accord were delighted with you and our faculty as well, join me in their praise of you and your work. May you continue and reap your very deserving reward of seeing freedom and equal opportunity for all in our time in our beloved America.

BOARD OF EDUCATION
THE CITY OF NEW YORK
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THE WADLEIGH HIGH SCHOOL
215 WEST 114TH STREET

MARGARET C. BYRNE
PRINCIPAL

TELEPHONE
MONUMENT 2-8312

December 18, 1944

Miss Margaret Anderson
c/o Publication, Common Ground
222 Fourth Avenue, New York 3, N.Y.

Dear Miss Anderson:

May I express to the magazine Common Ground and through you, also, to Mr. Langston Hughes the profound appreciation of everyone at Wadleigh for his very great generosity on November 30th. He came to Wadleigh, in Harlem, and gave the girls of the school such inspiration and such definite direction toward achievement that we count his visit one of the high spots of Wadleigh's history.

His voice, his manner, his friendliness, and most of all, of course, his artistic reading of his own poems combined to stir the student group to continued expressions of interest and gratitude.

You and he will both be glad to know that his visit had a very strong and marked effect on the reading of his works in the library. That effect continues.

Miss Palfi has just shown me the lovely pictures she made and we thank you for them too. We hope that sometime you will be able to come to our very interesting school.

MCB:TC
Copy to Mr. Hughes✓

BOARD OF EDUCATION

CITY OF NEW YORK

SAMUEL J. TILDEN HIGH SCHOOL

TILDEN AVENUE AND EAST 57th STREET
BROOKLYN 3, NEW YORK

ABRAHAM LEFKOWITZ, Principal

Telephone Dickens 6-5300

January 4, 1945

Mr. Langston Hughes
c/o Cummington Press
Cummington
Massachusetts

Dear Sir:

The foreign language students of the Samuel J. Tilden High School are engaged in a project to further understanding and friendship among racial, religious and national groups, an aim with which we know you to be in sympathy. One phase of their program is expressed in the publication "Fellow Men," the second issue of which we are happy to send you under separate cover.

As you will see, we have taken the liberty of reprinting your poem "There Are Words Like Freedom," from "American Decade," with the permission of Cummington Press and Mr. Boggs. We hope you will like the way in which our student art editor illustrated your poem.

Our students would be happy to hear what you think of their effort. They would be proud indeed to receive a message from you, to appear in the next issue.

May we hope for your cooperation?

gm/rms

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Gertrude Montag

SAMUEL J. TILDEN HIGH SCHOOL
TILDEN AVENUE AND EAST 57th STREET
BROOKLYN 3, N. Y.

Mr. Langston Hughes
634 St. Nicholas Avenue
New York 30, New York

July 11, 1945

Dear Miss Mittelman:

I regret very much indeed being
so long in answering your letter, but I have just
returned from a three-months' lecture tour which
took me all over the South and Middle West. I
trust that you will receive this, even though school
is out.

On April 12 I was in Texas and
so, of course, could not come to your school, but if
you will write me again in October, before I go away
on my full tour, I would be happy to come to your
school, if circumstances permit then.

Miss Hazel R. Mittelman
Public School 37 - Manhattan
113 E. 87th Street
New York City

BOARD OF EDUCATION - CITY OF NEW YORK

JOHN J. PERSHING JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

P. S. 220
9TH AVE., 48TH TO 49TH STS.
BROOKLYN, N. Y.

ISABELLE F. FORST, PRINCIPAL

ASSISTANTS TO PRINCIPAL

NELLIE M. FARNSWORTH
GEORGE GOLDBERG

WINDSOR 6-3344

September 20, 1945

Mr. Langston Hughes
634 St. Nicholas Avenue
New York City

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Doris Waldman, one of our former pupils who attended your meeting last term tells us that you would be willing to visit our assembly. You probably remember from your talk with Doris that some of our classes have been working on a brotherhood project - an effort to know and understand the diverse racial and religious strains which fused together, make this America. The work was intensely interesting and it produced in the pupils a strong desire to so live that we may all dwell together in amity.

Your meeting with our pupils in assembly would extend that result to a larger group.

We would be happy to have you visit on either the 9th of October or the 23rd of that month. Our assembly takes place at 8:45 in the morning. If you find it impossible to come in the morning, we hope you will find it convenient to speak to our pupils at 12:45 on either of these days.

Thank you for your kind offer to speak to our pupils.

IFF/hn

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at 87th Street, New York (28), N.Y.

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Mr. Langston Hughes

P. S. 220
9TH AVE., 48TH TO 49TH STS.
BROOKLYN 20, N. Y.

ISABELLE F. FORST. PRINCIPAL

ASSISTANTS TO PRINCIPAL
NELLIE M. FARNSWORTH
GEORGE GOLDBERG
CHARLES M. SHAPP

WINDSOR 6-3344

November 15, 1945

Mr. Langston Hughes
634 St. Nicholas Avenue
New York 30, N. Y.

Dear Mr. Hughes:

As you have requested in a previous letter, we are
reminding you that we anticipate with great pleasure
your appearance before the student body of Pershing
Junior High School on Tuesday, November 20 at 12:45.
We shall have someone meet you on the street level
of the 9th Avenue Station of the BMT West End line
at 12:30 P.M.

GG/hn

BOARD OF EDUCATION

CITY OF NEW YORK

SAMUEL J. TILDEN HIGH SCHOOL

TILDEN AVENUE AND EAST 57TH STREET
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

ABRAHAM LEFKOWITZ, Principal

TELEPHONE MINNESOTA 9-5300

January 11, 1946

Dear Mr. Hughes,

We of "Fellow Men" sincerely hope you have not
forgotten us, particularly since we consider you "our"
poet. That is your penalty for being friendly to us!

The January issue of "Fellow Men" is now at the
printer's. We hope you will not mind that we took the
liberty of quoting you again, in a vital message we
knew you would want us to help spread, the poem "Give
Us Our Peace" which appeared in an issue of the "Inde-
pendent".

If it were only possible for you to visit with us
some day, - not just the dozen or so of us connected
with "Fellow Men", but at least a thousand more of young
people who would deeply appreciate such an opportunity
and honor. But I really am afraid to ask you, afraid
you'll laugh at our presumption. On second thought, I
am quite sure you wouldn't laugh, but you might have to
say no because you're so busy. Or would you possibly say
yes?

At any rate, we would be very happy to hear what
you think of our new issue, which will be sent to you
before the ink has a chance to dry. We hope you won't
think us too unworthy.

LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE, Inc.

NEW YORK CITY
Gramercy 7-5316

NURSERY AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
196 Bleecker Street

ELISABETH IRWIN HIGH SCHOOL
40 Charlton Street

January 10, 1949

Mr. Langston Hughes,
c/o Alfred A Knopf,
501 Madison Ave.,
New York City.

Dear Langston Hughes:

I am writing to invite you to speak at our assembly at the Elisabeth Irwin High School in celebration of Negro History Week. We will take any week during February, except the last, which is our mid-winter vacation. The dates open are February 2, 9, and 16, Wednesdays. The program begins at 10:10 and is over at 11. We would like to have you speak for about 20 minutes.

We have a modest appropriation for speaker's fees, and would like to have you quote us your fee.

Please let us know as soon as conveniently possible, as we are eager to complete our plans.

I enjoyed your poetry reading at the Schomburg Library very much.

January 15, 1949

Mr. Norman Studer
Little Red School House, Inc.
Elizabeth Irwin High School
40 Charlton Street
New York, New York

Dear Mr. Studer:

Thank you very much for your invitation to speak at the
Elizabeth Irwin High School.

Since I shall be away on a Southern lecture tour beginning
February 5 and running for about ten days, I think perhaps
it would be best for me to come to you on February 2. Would
a fee of $35.00 be agreeable to you? And would you wish me
to bring a dozen or so of my books of poems along in case
some of the teachers or students might wish to secure auto-
graphed copies?

Under separate cover I have sent you some publicity mater-
ial and photographs which perhaps you might wish to have
and use for your bulletin boards.

LH:HHS

January 20, 1949

Mr. Norman Studer
Elisabeth Irwin High School
40 Charlton Street
New York 14, New York

Dear Mr. Studer:

The Honorarium which you mention in your letter
of January 18th will be agreeable to me, and I shall be at
Elisabeth Irwin High School by 10 A.M. Wednesday, February
2nd.

I shall bring a few of my various books of poems
with me, as you suggest, in case any of the teachers or students
might wish to secure autographed copies.

With all good wishes,

D.Borow
336 Ft.Washington Ave.
New York 33, N.Y.

GRAND CENTRAL
STATION

January 9, 1950

Mrs. Dorothy Borow,
336 Ft. Washington Avenue,
New York 33, New York.

Dear Mrs. Borow,

I am so sorry not to have been able to answer
your letter earlier to tell you that I cannot come
to Jr. H.S. 115 on February 15th, but this is the
middle of my lecture season and I've been out of town
a great deal lately, besides having one show, "The
Barrier", in rehearsal and another being readied for
auditions. So I haven't been able to get at my mail
lately.

I would very much like to come to your P.T.A.
group sometime, and perhaps I can in the late Spring.
Most of March and perhaps a part of April I will be
lecturing in the Middle West and, since I am under
contract to an agency, Colston Leigh, and bookings
are continuing to come in, I can't be certain of my
time in New York until the season is finished. Un-
der the circumstances it is just about impossible to
accept dates other than through the agency, as I can't
be sure of being in town to fill them.

But thank you for your kind invitation, and all
my good wishes for your Brotherhood program.

Sincerely yours,

D.Borow
336 Ft.Wash.Ave.
New York 33 N.Y.

Mr. Langston Hughes
c/o Harper
20 East 127 St.
NYC

PARENT-TEACHERS ASSOCIATION

Junior High School 115 - Manhattan

586 WEST 177th STREET
New York 33, N. Y.

(247)

January 10, 1950

Mr. Langston Hughes
e/o Harper
20 East 127 Street
New York City

Dear Mr. Hughes

The P.T.A's of three schools (Jr.H.S.115 - P.S.173 Θ Jr.H.S.164) are jointly sponsoring a Brotherhood program. There is an urgent need for your appearance at this meeting. Dr. Hugh Smythe suggested that we contact you and it is at his request that we are writing to you.

We are holding up the publicity until we receive an
acknowledgement from you - we would be very honore d to have you
deliver a reading of some of your poems.

The meeting will be held on Wednesday, Feb.15 at Jr.H.S.115 at 8:30 P.M. If the date is not satisfactory we will change it to suit your convenience.

Please say "yes" - and let us hear from you soon.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
THE WADLEIGH HIGH SCHOOL
114th Street, West of Seventh Avenue
NEW YORK CITY

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Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 127 Street
New York City 35

BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

The James Fenimore Cooper Junior High School No. 120 Manhattan

18 EAST 120TH STREET, NEW YORK 35

TELEPHONE AT WATER 9-1780

MAX G. RUBINSTEIN, PRINCIPAL

ASSISTANTS TO PRINCIPAL

DINA M. BLEICH
DAVID R. ELLISON
JOEL J. RHEINS
DANIEL SCHREIBER

EDUCATIONAL AND
VOCATIONAL COUNSELOR
EMMA S. PENN

December 13, 1950.

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

Dear Mr. Hughes:

I should like to invite you to discuss **literature and Art** as part of an in-service course for teachers, entitled, "Know Your Community", which I am giving this coming semester beginning February 1951. This course is to be given in the library of our school, J.H.S. 120, on Tuesdays from 3.30 to 5.10 p. m.

The purpose of this course is to give teachers in the Harlem area a comprehensive background and orientation to the community in order to help make them more understanding and effective teachers.

Last year I gave a similar course. I am enclosing a prospectus. The 57 teachers and supervisors who took the course recorded their most genuine gratitude. Each one felt that the course had contributed significantly to his growth and understanding. I am sure that thousands of youngsters in our area are benefiting today from the better insight and understandings that were instilled in these teachers by the guest lecturers.

It is my intention to enlarge greatly the extent and scope of the course. Whereas, last year, we confined ourselves to the specific Harlem area, we decided that for this coming semester the concept of the word, "Community", should be broadened to include the entire American scene.

It is for this reason that we have selected you as an authority on Literature and Art whose background and interests are not limited to Harlem itself, but rather to our country as a whole.

This course will begin approximately February 15 and extend for four months. If you consent to participate - and I sincerely hope you will - we can arrange your session to suit your needs.

Please let me hear from you as soon as you possibly can.

mgr;fg
encl.

18 EAST 120TH STREET, NEW YORK 35
TELEPHONE ATWATER 9-1780

MAX G. RUBINSTEIN, PRINCIPAL

April 19, 1951.

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

Dear Mr. Hughes:

This is the final gentle reminder to you about
your visit to our course, "Know Your Community", on Tuesday,
April 24, 1951, at 3.30 p. m. to discuss Literature and Art.

We have already had nine very interesting and
exciting sessions.

The pattern that is normally followed by our
speakers is a 45-minute presentation and then questions and
discussion. However, there is nothing sacrosanct about this
arrangement. In general, you may suit your own wishes.

We usually have some mimeographed material
related to the subject under discussion for distribution, and,
of course, always stand ready to do mimeographing for our
guests should they desire it.

I am looking forward to seeing you on Tuesday,

April 24.

mgr;fg

MAX G. RUBINSTEIN, PRINCIPAL

ASSISTANTS TO PRINCIPAL

EMMA S. PENN

April 26, 1951.

Dear Mr. Hughes:

I want to tell you how much we enjoyed your visit with us on Tuesday. It was one of the most stimulating and interesting sessions that we have had in our course, "Know Your Community".

Your presentation was distinctive because of the genuineness and candor with which you spoke. Permitting us to share with you your wonderful background of experience was a unique opportunity. Furthermore, your disarming approach was in so many ways different from that of the other speakers that you helped considerably in rounding out our picture of the community.

I cannot express to you adequately my indebtedness to you. I also know how grateful the other members of the course are.

I do hope that I shall have some opportunity in the future to meet and greet you and that you will look upon our school as a friendly edifice as you pass by it. And, by the way, if you are ever around at lunch time, you would be a most welcome guest and you would have a really novel experience eating in our Food Shop.

mgr;fg

BOARD OF EDUCATION

NEW YORK CITY YOUTH BOARD

N. Y. STATE YOUTH COMMISSION

TEL. MO. 3-8658

ELFREDA SANDIFER WRIGHT
DIRECTOR

DICK CAMPBELL, CHAIRMAN
ADVISORY COUNCIL

ADVISORY COUNCIL
PTL. GLENDON BRYANT
JOSEPHINE DAVIS
ATT. JOHN T. DOLES JR.
ATT. DAVID D. JONES JR.
PTL. WILLIAM KELLY
RUSSELL LEWIS
ELMER MOORE
OTELIA PARKER
DR. HOWARD RECKLING
ATT. JAWN A. SANDIFER
ELLEN TARRY

PUBLIC SCHOOL 68
COMMUNITY CENTER

127 WEST 127TH STREET
NEW YORK 27, N. Y.

MARION CLARK, PRINCIPAL

RUPEL PERKINS
ASST. DIRECTOR

CARL JACKSON, PRESIDENT
STUDENT COUNCIL

DELORES MIDDLETON, SECRETARY

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

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Will you lend your name and prestige to the Sponsors List for our forthcoming Brotherhood Concert to be sponsored by Public School 68 Community Center on Wednesday Evening, February 20, 1952 at 8:30 P.M. for the benefit of our children's Camp Fund.

Last Summer Public School 68 which is located in the heart of Harlem, 127 West 127th Street sent more than 50 children of underprivileged families to camp. Our staff is hard pressed to keep up with the ever increasing flow of youngsters who come to us for leisure time activities. Never the less the Community Center program has become a major factor in stemming the tide of delinquency in our neighborhood.

As one whose contribution to the community life in our area is well known, we would consider it an honor and a privilege to list your name as a sponsor and supporter of our Brotherhood Concert.

The concert will feature the One World Ensemble, an inter-racial, interfaith and intercultural vocal quartet, which has as its members: a Negro tenor, South Korean soprano, English basso, American White contralto and Jewish pianist.

They have appeared throughout the country in most of the major concert halls of the nation as well as scores of colleges from coast to coast.

May we hear from you.

May 29, 1952

Mr. William Mach
Stitt Junior High School
401 W. 164th St.
New York 32, New York

Dear Mr. Mach,

I am in receipt of your letter to Mr. Hughes
inviting him to attend your assembly on Tuesday,
June 3rd. Thank you very much for this kind
invitation.

I am sure Mr. Hughes would love to attend and
witness the awards, but he is presently out of town
and is not expected to return for several weeks.
Consequently, I must decline, with thanks, this kind
invitation, and with the hope that it is a very
successful affair.

Best wishes.

June 7, 1952

Negro History Club
Stitt Junior High School
40 W. 164th St.
New York 32, New York

Dear Sirs,

I would like to acknowledge the kind invitation
sent to Mr. Hughes to attend your assembly on June 3rd
by Mr. William Mach and Miss Marion Nelson, respectively.

Unfortunately, my letter in reply to Mr. William
Mach was returned, so I assume I addressed it inaccurately.
Please accept my apology.

I am sure Mr. Hughes would have loved to attend
and witness the presentation of awards. However, he
has been out of town for several weeks and would not
have been able to accept.

Thank you very much for inviting him, and it is my
hope that the assembly was a very successful affair.

With kindest regards.

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MARION CLARK, PRINCIPAL

ADVISORY COUNCIL

PT. CLAUDE CARGHILL
JOSEPHINE DAVIS
ATT. JOHN T. DOLES, JR.
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February 13, 1953

Dear Langston:

Thanks very much for "The First Book of Negroes".
It is a delightful book for young people, and we are
happy to add it to our school collection.

Miss Clark, the principal, joins me in thanking
you. I am enclosing a check for one dollar and seventy
five cents ($1.75).

RUPEL PERKINS
ASST. DIRECTOR

MARTHA S. LEWIS
GROUP WORKER

JO LAMAR
SECRETARY

WILLIAM FREDERICK
PRESIDENT
STUDENT COUNCIL

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October 27, 1954

Mr. Myron Weintraub
Junior High School 120
James Fenimore Cooper Jr. H.S.
18 East 120th St.
New York 35, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Weintraub:

Your letter to Mr. Hughes has come
during his absence from New York City. He will
be away for sometime and will be unable to ap-
pear before your students during book week. I
know he would have been glad to accommodate you
had it been possible, and that he will appreci-
ate the nice things you said about his previous
appearances before your assemblies.

With best wishes for a successful
Book Week on behalf of Mr. Hughes, I am

HS/s

November 16, 1954

Mr. Myron Weintraub,
J. H. S. 120 Manhattan,
18 East 120th Street,
New York 35, N. Y.

Dear Mr. Weintraub,

I've just gotten home last night from almost a month
in Chicago and the Middle West, and find your letter
of October 22nd awaiting me.

I am sorry to be so long in replying. And I very
much regret that, with a dozen urgent things to do
since I've been away so long, the rest of this week
is entirely filled, and I will not be able to come
to J. H. S. 120 this time. But I am grateful to you
for inviting me.

I remember with pleasure former visits to the school,
and perhaps another time, I will be able to visit it
again.

24 Man. 35 22 E. 128th. St. Le. 4-2866
SCHOOL BOROUGH ZONE ADDRESS TELEPHONE

OFFICE OF THE PRINCIPAL

May 16, 1955

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

Mr. Hughes

Dear Sir:

Every Year, we try to give our Sixth Year Pupils a final program which they can remember. We are arranging one now.

We always include a Guest Speaker in our program. You were suggested by our Principal, DR. Berlin and the Sixth Year Teachers. I was appointed by them to contact you.

The Closing Exercises will be held on Wednesday, June 29th. at 9:30 A.M. I know that you have a very full schedule but if you can possibly spare the time to come over and give our departing pupils a few words of advice and encouragement, we will be very grateful.

Trusting that you can be present. I am,

Helen M. Harris

MRS. CARMEN ALVES
PARENT TEACHER'S ASSOCIATION
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 136
6 EDGECOMBE AVENUE
NEW YORK 30, N. Y.

JANUARY
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My dear Mrs. Alves:

It was certainly nice to have such a long and pleasant letter from
you, and to know that the parents remember me from my visit to
P. S. 133. I very much wish that I could come to the Negro History
Week program at Junior High School 136 in February but, unfortunately,
I expect to be away from New York most of the month, and I am trying
to schedule my trip so that I can again see the Mardi Gras parade
in New Orleans which happens to be the exact date you mention,
February 21st. So I will probably be on Rampart Street that night.

The guitarist who is an excellent folk singer is:

Clarence Cooper
453 West 140 St. (Au 3 - 0559)

He recently made a long-playing record, "Goin' Down The Road" Elektra
#27 and is giving a concert soon at the Museum of Modern Art. Perhaps
he would be able to come for your program. At any rate, no harm in
asking him.

It might also be possible that the photographer of THE SWEET FLYPAPER
OF LIFE could come and display some of his pictures. I am enclosing
his card for you. In case you have never visited his gallery, you
might enjoy his excellent exhibit of photographs he has there. You
might like to call to the attention of the PTA my Negro History record
which is especially suitable for Negro History Week. I am enclosing a
catalogue and it is available at Sam Goody's at a special discount.
And since regrettably I cannot come to the program myself, I am sending
you a copy of my FAMOUS AMERICAN NEGROES which might interest the
parents and teachers.

It is good of you to think of me in connection with this program and I
hope at some other time I shall have the pleasure of visiting you.

Mrs. Carmen Alves
Parent Teacher's Association
Junior High School #136
6 Edrecombe Avenue
New York 30, N. Y.

J.H.S. 159
SCHOOL

Man. 35
BOROUGH ZONE

241 E. 119
ADDRESS

TELEPHONE

OFFICE OF THE PRINCIPAL

Dear Mr. Hughes,

My class, 9-1, was privileged to be present at your recent broadcast over WWRL. They were so impressed that they would like to interview you for our school paper, the ELLSWORTH ECHO.

Would it be possible to send two girls to your home for an interview? Please let us know whatever time is suitable for you.

Thank you for your consideration,

BOARD OF EDUCATION

The City of New York

Mt. Morris Elementary School

[P. S. 24]

22 East 128th Street, New York 35, N. Y.
Telephone LEhigh 4-2866

DR. LEWIS L. BERLIN
PRINCIPAL

December 16, 1958

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

Dear Mr. Hughes:

You are cordially invited to attend a Christmas presentation by children of the operetta, "Hansel and Gretel".

This performance will be held on Tuesday, November 23rd, at 9:00 A.M. in the Assembly of the school.

In the past we have called upon you for service, and it is only fitting that we now invite you for an hour of pleasant relaxation. I do hope that you will be free at the time and will honor us with your presence.

LLB:eam

BOARD OF EDUCATION
OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
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THE WADLEIGH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

J. H. S. 88, MANHATTAN
215 WEST 114TH STREET
NEW YORK 26, NEW YORK
MILTON L. HANAUER
PRINCIPAL

ASSISTANTS TO PRINCIPAL

GERTRUDE ARONOW
LESTER D. BASCH
MILTON FINKELSTEIN
SAMUEL K. FLIEGNER

ACTING ASSISTANT TO PRINCIPAL
ENID M. VAUGHAN

COORDINATOR
RICHARD KACHALSKY

DISTRICT 11
TELEPHONE MONUMENT 6-8370
MONUMENT 6-8371

January 14, 1959

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

Dear Mr. Hughes:

As you probably know, this is the third year that Wadleigh has been operating as a Day Junior High for both boys and girls. We have 1600 students in the day school. 300 Special school patrols sponsor the annual Brotherhood Week Program. During the past two years the students have selected an outstanding citizen from the community as a guest speaker for this ocassion. These have been, Jackie Robinson and Mrs. Ann Arnold Hedgeman.

This year the Principal, Dr. Milton L. Hanauer, and the students have expressed a desire to have you as the guest speaker. The Special Assembly will be held on Friday, February 20th. We would schedule the program at an hour most convenient for you.

In view of the present crisis regarding the inter-
gration of the Public Schools in our area, we feel that
you will have a vital influence on the students. I would
appreciate hearing from you at your earliest convenience.

ESW:LE

["I, *my name*.", "January 16, 1959", "Dear Miss Wright,", "I bring to you some news to report.\nI receive a letter from you asking me\nsome questions about some subjects.\nI have a few questions about you and I\nask you some questions.\n\nI have a few questions about you and I\nask you some questions.\

January 16, 1959

January 16, 1959

Dear Miss Wright,

I would like to express my appreciation for your kind invitation to speak to your students on February 20th. I am very pleased to be able to share with them some of the experiences I have had in Negro history classes. I believe that by sharing some of my experiences with my students, I can help to dispel some of the negative images that many people have of Negroes. I hope that by the end of the class, my students will have a better understanding of what it means to be a black American.

Thank you very much for your invitation and for your kind invitation to speak to my class. I look forward to the opportunity to continue this conversation next week. I hope that my students will be able to see that black history is not just a subject to be studied, but a way of life that can enrich and energize their lives.

Dear Miss Wright,

Thank you very much for your kind invitation to speak to your students on February 20th.

As you know, Negro speakers are in great demand during Negro History Week. I have engagements which will keep me out of town from February 8th right through to the end of the month.

OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT

433 WEST 123rd STREET
NEW YORK 27, N. Y.

MARION CLARK
Assistant Superintendent

Telephone:
Monument 6-1013
Monument 6-1014

March 10, 1960

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

Dear Mr. Hughes;

On Thursday, April 7, 1960, we are having a
a combined meeting of two of our IN-Service-Courses for teachers.
The theme is Resouge Material available in the Development of
Human Relations.

The course starts at 4P,M. and ends at 5 P,M.
Tea will be served at 3:30. There are 80 teachers in the group.
I will speak about books and printed material. But, since it is
National Library Week I would like to give the teachers a special
treat. Could you talk to us informally about anything you like for
five to fifteen minutes? Your books have helped children add adults
to understand not only members of their own race but also members of
other groups.

A card is enclosed for reply. I can also be reached
by telephone at the above number or at home WA 6-7658.

Enc.

P. S. 157, MUNICIPAL
327 ST. NICHOLAS
NEW YORK 27, N. Y.

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 E. 127 St.
New York City, New York

BRONX CENTRAL

June 6, 1960

Mr. Bernard Friedman
Public School 157
327 St. Nicholas Avenue
New York 27, New York

Dear Mr. Friedman:

This is to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter of June 2, in which you
requested the participation of Mr. Langston
Hughes in your in-service course in the
fall.

Mr. Hughes' very heavy lecture schedules du
during the past three years resulted in
his getting behind in his writing commitments.
In order to fulfill his writing commitments,
he finds it necessary to decline all invi-
tations for public engagements during the
next lecture season.

Mr. Hughes appreciates your invitation
and regrets that conditions prevent his
accommodating you. He sends his best
wishes and hopes that he might be of
service to you during another lecture
season.

With best wishes,

Paul Hoffman Junior High School

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 45, BRONX
2502 LORILLARD PLACE
NEW YORK 58, NEW YORK
TELEPHONE: SEDGWICK 32740

3-4100
JOHN X. BURKE PRINCIPAL

Benjamin Starr,

Dear Mr. Hughes:

The third Annual Junior High School Press Con-
vention will be held next term on October 26, 1960, at
the William J. O'Shea Junior High School, 100 W. 77th
Street, New York 24, N. Y. at 9:30 A.M.

Faculty Advisors and 500 students representing
125 Junior High Schools in New York City who are engaged
in the publication of school newspapers and magazines
are meeting to discuss various aspects of their work.

We would appreciate it very much if you would be
willing to address a panel of 30 teacher-faculty advisors
on various aspects of school publications.

May we hear from you soon and favorably?

If you are interested in any additional details,
I will be most happy to discuss them with you via the
telephone or letter.

BS:hk

June 10, 1960

Mr. Benjamin Starr
Junior High School 45, Bronx
2502 Lorillard Place
New York 58, New York

Dear Mr. Starr:

This is to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter requesting Mr. Langston Hughes to
participate in the Third Annual Junior
High School Press Convention, October 26,
1960.

During the past three years Mr. Hughes had
very heavy lecture tours in the States and
West Indies. His almost continuous absence
from New York caused him to get behind in
his writing commitments. Mr. Hughes therefore
finds it necessary to decline all invitations
for public appearances during the 1960-61
season in order to fulfill his commitments.

Mr. Hughes appreciates the invitation and
regrets that conditions prevent him from
accommodating you. However, he hopes that
he might serve you during some other future
season.

251

PUBLIC SCHOOL 4, EX.

1701 FULTON AVE.
NEW YORK 57, N. Y.

Mr. Langston Hughes
Simon & Schuster Inc.
630 Fifth Avenue
New York, N. Y.

October 20, 1960

Dear Mr. Applebaum!

I am very grateful to you for your
kind invitation to appear at P. 3. 4 but,
because of a heavy out-of-town lecture
schedule, and a pending tour of my Theatre
Guild play, TAMBOURINES TO GLORY, which I
must accompany, I regret that I cannot
accept any more engagements of any sort
this season. So sorry.

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION
OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

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THE PROSPECT HEIGHTS HIGH SCHOOL

CLASSON AVENUE AND UNION STREET • BROOKLYN 25, NEW YORK
TELEPHONE STERLING 3-5890
EDNA HICKS • PRINCIPAL
CARL CHERKIS - PRINCIPAL

February 9, 1961

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

Dear Mr. Hughes:

The Student Government Organization of this high school has asked me to extend an invitation to you to participate in our celebration of Brotherhood Week on Tuesday, February 21, at 11 a.m. in the school auditorium.

At that time we are presenting our Woman-Of-The Year Brotherhood Award to Mrs. James Gabrielle, to whom we all owe a debt of gratitude for the courage and strength of conviction she exhibited in the recent events in New Orleans.

The students are also planning to send a scroll of friendship to Mayor Morrison, Superintendent of Schools James Redmond, the teachers, parents and children of the two embattled elementary schools, and all the other good people of New Orleans who have the moral courage to attempt to translate the principle of desegregation into the life of their city.

The dramatic feature of our program will be a choral speaking presentation of Freedom's Plow. We are sure that Mrs. Gabrielle, our student audience, our faculty and other guests will be greatly inspired by your presence. Was it not Shelley who said, "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." Can you---would you come?

February 13, 1961

Dear Mr. Cherkis:

Mr. Langston Hughes is on lecture tour and is not scheduled to return to New York City until March 6th. Therefore, it will be impossible for him to attend your February 21st, Brotherhood celebration.

I am certain that Mr. Hughes will be grateful to you for your kind invitation and regret his inability to be with you. And he will be most pleased to learn of your choral speaking presentation of his FREEDOM PLOW. If you have printed programs for this convocation, would you please send four copies to Mr. Hughes, one for him and one each for three collections which house his work and materials relating to his work for posterity.

Many thanks again on behalf of Mr. Hughes.

Telephone MO 6-8370

BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
WADLEIGH EVENING HIGH SCHOOL

215 West 114th Street
New York 26, N. Y.

March 7, 1962

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

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Several years ago this school had the pleasure
of your visit when Miss Dorothy Peterson was in charge.
Miss Peterson has since retired, and is now living in
Seville, Spain.

My recollections of your visit were such
that both the faculty and the student body enjoyed
it immensely.

We would very much like to have you join with
us in honoring Mr. George L.P. Weaver, Assistant
Secretary of Labor, for Internal Affairs, on Friday
evening, March 23, 1962, at 8 p.m. Mr. Weaver is a
former graduate of this school, and has consented to
deliver an address.

We hope that you can arrange to be with us
that evening. We look forward to seeing you.

Our very best wishes.

JE.es

March 8, 1962

Dear Mr. Eisner:

Thank you very much for your kind invitation to be a guest at Wadeligh Evening High School on March 23. Unfortunately, I expect to leave for California shortly to be gone the rest of the Spring, so cannot accept.

With regards,

THE JEFFERSON PARK JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

PUBLIC SCHOOL 117, MANHATTAN
240 EAST 109TH STREET
NEW YORK 29, N. Y.

ISRAEL S. FLAX
PRINCIPAL

TELEPHONE
SA. 2.5000

April 5, 1962

Dear Mr. Hughes,

During the week of April 3rd we
had Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee read
some of your poetry at our school.
The readings were received enthusi-
tically by the pupils. We thought
if you would read from some of your
poems and folk tales, it would even
be more exciting.

I spoke to your publisher and
they said that they would help us
set up an exhibit of your books when
you appear.

Thank you very much.

May 10, 1962

Mr. James E. Allen, Jr.,
State of New York,
Education Department,
Albany 1, New York.

Dear Mr. Allen:

Your letter to me of May 2, sent via Alfred A. Knopf,
Inc., my publishers, has taken a week to reach me. So I
am sorry for this belated answer.

As I am leaving for Africa in about two weeks, and am
swamped with appointments and literary deadlines to complete
before I go, I regret very much that I cannot serve on the
planning committee to enshrine Lincoln's draft of the
Emancipation, and would be unable to attend a
meeting in Albany on May 16. I am honored indeed to be
asked, and regret very much that I must decline.

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THOMAS KNOWLTON JHS 52 Bronx 55 681 Kelly St. WY 3-1250
SCHOOL BOROUGH ZONE ADDRESS TELEPHONE

OFFICE OF THE PRINCIPAL

Dr. James Mandel

June 28, 1963

Mr. Langston Hughes
New York, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Hughes:

I can not begin to tell you how thrilling it was to see you at
our school's Senior Prom on June 21st. We deeply appreciate the fact
that you took time from your busy schedule to share this joyful
occasion with us.

My only regret was that the lateness of the hour prevented me
from introducing you to the senior class, parents, and teachers. It
would have made the evening even more memorable for them to know that
so famous an author was enjoying the affair with them.

I hope we can call on you in the future to honor us with your
presence at the school assembly or graduation exercise.

HS:el

cc: Mr. John C. Cocks
    Mrs. Martha Finkler
    Dr. Calvin Gross
    Mr. Max Rubenstein
    Dr. Joseph Loretan

HIGH SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ART

CONVENT AVENUE AT 135th STREET, NEW YORK CITY 31

LOUIS K. WECHSLER • PRINCIPAL

TELEPHONE • WADSWORTH 6-0870-0871-0872

January 17, 1964

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 127 Street
New York City, N. Y.

Dear Mr. Hughes:

A mutual friend, Mrs. Gertrude McBrown, has been good enough to suggest that you might be willing to be our guest speaker at the Annual Meeting of the New York City High School Poetry Contest.

This contest has been maintained by the Board of Education for over 40 years as a means of encouraging and developing poetic talent among the students of the New York City public high schools. About 50 academic and vocational high schools and hundreds of talented young poets participate.

I think it would be appropriate and timely that a man of your devotion to poetry and social justice and of your eminence in both fields should address the Meeting in 1964.

Would you therefore do us the honor and give us the pleasure of being our guest speaker this year?

The Annual Meeting will be held on May 5, at 2:00 P.M., in the Washington Irving High School, 17th Street and Irving Place, Manhattan.

I look forward to hearing from you and hope for a favorable reply.

LKW:mf

THE EAST NEW YORK JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 149

SUTTER AVE. & WYONA ST. BROOKLYN 7, N. Y.

EVERGREEN 5-8090

SOLOMON SILVER PRINCIPAL
ASSISTANTS TO PRINCIPAL
MORRIS LEDERMAN
ANNETTE P. GOLDMAN
MILTON VOGELSTEIN
MAUREEN LERNER

January 20, 1964

Mr. Langston Hughes
New York Post
75 West Street
New York, New York

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Because I am about to make a request which is both unusual and of overwhelming social significance, I find myself searching for that avenue of communication which could conceivably result in the miracle for which I am hoping.

First, allow me to introduce myself. I am Annette Goldman, an assistant principal at The East New York Junior High School 149, in Brooklyn. Many of our pupils come from depressed and deprived areas. Through no fault of their own, these children are the unfortunate victims of cultural stagnation, despair, and hopelessness - deprived of goals, of ambition, of motivation. I would like to provide them with the living symbol of achievement accomplished against the odds of life's vicissitudes.

Were you to visit our school and speak to our pupils, you would serve as a beacon, a star, which they might emulate. I include pupils of all racial and religious denominations, although our population is a majority of minority groups.

I am, of course, well aware of the overwhelming and inhuman demands upon you and your time. I am also aware of your humanity, your desire to upgrade all peoples and your cognizance of the tremendous problems that we, in education, face at this time. Your presence, and your influence, could aid us immeasurably in creating the aspirational image that our pupils so desperately need.

March 5, 1964

Borough President, Manhattan,
Municipal Building,
Chambers & Centre Streets,
New York, New York.

Gentlemen:

This evening from about 6 P. M. on our house at the above address, 20 East 127th Street, was filled with carbon monoxide and smoke so thick you could see it on all four floors, seeping in from the defective furnace and flus in the rooming house next door, 18 East 127th Street, belonging to Mr. Thomas Pettway, (landlord) who lives at 206 West 119th Street, New York 26, N. Y. MO 3-2536. The Department of Health and the Fire Department were advised of this condition by phone. A similar condition of smoke and gas fumes existed on the night of March 3, when the Health Department was advised by phone and promised to take action. More than a dozen times since the New Year, we have been troubled by this smoke nuisance from next door. Very bad on February 22.

The condition described above is not however new this year, and we have many times consulted with the landlord of No. 18, Mr. Pettway, concerning it. He and his super, Vernal Carroll (neither of whom live on the premises) admit there is something wrong with their heating apparatus, but seem unable or unwilling to remedy it. As far back as February 3, 1956, this condition of dangerous gas seepage and smoke emanating from 18 East 127th Street was reported to the Health Department. A report was again made in March, 1960, when the Health Department sent Inspector Lawrence Bey to our premises and he took several tests for air pollution, finding in our house that day 1,004% carbon monoxide gas from the furnace next door. (Complaint No 823, signed by Mr. Bey, Badge 517). In November a similar complaint was made to the Health Department: Complaint No. 5772, signed by G. Jefferson, Badge 228. Again in November, 1961, (C. C. 05712) It is now March, 1964, and as yet this condition is not remedied. Would you be so kind as to inform me to what city department a householder must appeal or report in order to get such a health hazard as this smoke and gas nuisance corrected?

As a tax payer and registered voter, I would appreciate your prompt attention to this matter.

March 6, 1964

Sidney Lamont
English 831
George Westinghouse Vocational
and Technical High School
105 Johnson Street
Brooklyn, N. Y. 11201

Dear Sidney,

Thank you very much for your kind letter of February 28th in which you invite me to come to visit your English Class and to talk with you and your fellow students.

Unfortunately, I shall be leaving soon for the West Indies on a lecture tour and will be out of town a great deal of time this Spring, so I cannot come to your school at this time.

However, I do appreciate your thoughtfulness and wish you the very best.

LH:r

Countee Cullen

BOARD OF EDUCATION
OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
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ALL DAY NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL
P. S. 194 MANHATTAN
242 WEST 144TH STREET
NEW YORK 30. NEW YORK

DAVID S. EDELSTEIN, PRINCIPAL

TELEPHONE: WADSWORTH 6-0580

March 13, 1964

Mr. Langston Hughes

Dear Mr. Hughes:

After a campaign of some ten years duration, we were fortunate in having
the Board of Education approve the selection by the children and teachers
of the name "Countee Cullen" for our school. Official action was taken
in June, 1963.

During the current school year we devoted our efforts to use the name for
an educational experience for our children. A number of artists, engineers,
poets, writers, etc., have addressed our upper grade children in groups
of approximately fifty. Other children in the school wrote poetry and
studied the life of Countee Cullen.

As a culminating experience, we are planning this spring a dedication ceremony for the naming of our school. We expect to have Board of Education officials and prominent citizens of our city and community present. By unanimous vote of the committee in charge of arrangements, your name was suggested to deliver the principal address.

I am aware that you visited our school some time before I became principal in 1958 and that you have since continued your interest in us. On one occasion you made it possible for one of our children to go on a trip to Washington. Because of your standing in the world of poetry and in our community, and because you knew Countee Cullen, we would like very much to have you speak on Cullen as a poet and as a man to our children.

Our exercises are planned for Tuesday, May 5, at 10 A.M. If this date is inconvenient, perhaps May 12 or 19 would be more suitable for you. Please let us know at your earliest convenience if you can accept, since we are building our program around a day that is convenient for you.

DSE:aa

March 25, 1964

Mr. James E. Allen
P. S. 192
New York, New York

Dear Mr. Allen:

Langston Hughes appreciates your note of February 6th informing of the use of his book, PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE NEGRO IN AMERICA, in your In-Service course and your inviting him to write an introduction to your History of The Negro In New York. However, Mr. Hughes has such a heavy schedule that he is unable to accept any assignments not already committed, at least for the next two years. He has four books contracted, his usual POST column in addition to a syndicated column which will be handled by King Syndication almost immediately. Mr. Hughes also plans to go to Europe with his current off-Broadway hit, JERICO-JIM CROW, and therefore find it impossible to add one thing, no matter how small, to his work load.

I apologize for the long delay in acknowledging your letter, but it has been unavoidable. Mr. Hughes is at present in the West Indies and so I am attending his mail for him.

SCHOOL

BOROUGH ZONE

ADDRESS

TELEPHONE

OFFICE OF THE PRINCIPAL

April 10, 1964.

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

Dear Mr. Hughes,

Mrs Bourne, a friend of long standing has indicated to me that you would be very willing to extend yourself in the interest of our Negro children.

I am a teacher and Grade Adviser to the Seventh Year in the Harriet B. Stowe Junior High School located at 6 Edgecomb Avenue in Manhattan. In addition, I am a member of the Higher Horizons Planning Committee; This committee is charged with the important task of introducing to our children many aspects of culture that they have missed in their childhood.

It is in this connection that I am appealing to you for whatever help your busy schedule will allow. Your presence at our school at any time convenient to you will be a tremendous thing to all of us at Stowe and to our students' need for a more intimate awareness of the culture that exists around them.

I cannot emphasize too strongly how welcome you would be to the staff and to all the children at Harriet B. Stowe.

May we look forward to the pleasure of your company in the near future?

April 11, 1964

Mr. Saul Snyder
J. H. S. 136, Manhattan
6 Edgecombe Avenue
New York 30, New York

Dear Mr. Snyder:

Because Mr. Hughes is away on a
lecture tour, I am entering your request
on his behalf.

Mr. Hughes is most likely to go
to France for an extended stay, so he cannot
accept any speaking engagements this season.
I know that he will appreciate knowing that
you thought of him.

With all best wishes,

Raoul Abdul
Assistant to Mr. Hughes

RA:1

LOUIS K. WECHSLER • PRINCIPAL

April 16, 1964

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Let me say again that we are delighted to know that you will
be able to be our guest speaker at the 41st Awards Meeting
of the New York City High School Poetry Contest.

The meeting will take place on Tuesday, May 5, at the
Washington Irving High School, Room 530, at 2:00 P.M. It
should be over at about 4:00 P.M. and we hope that you can
be our guest for cocktails and dinner after the meeting.
This part of the program ends at about 7:30 P.M.

I am reserving, as you requested, a half hour for your part
of the program. I would appreciate your sending me an out-
line or summary of what you intend to say and do in order
to get better press coverage.

If there is anything else that you would like to know,
please call me at school. We are all looking forward with
keen anticipation to meeting and hearing you and having the
pleasure of a few hours of sociability with you.

LKW:mf

SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS
DIVISION OF

HIGH SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ART
120 WEST 46th STREET, NEW YORK CITY 36

LOUIS K. WECHSLER, Principal

TELEPHONE JU 2-4197

EDWARD T. KOEHLER
Teacher-in-charge

Advisory Commission on the
Performing Arts
MRS. HOWARD S. CULLMAN, Chman.

DRAMA

F. CURTIS CANFIELD
JOHN CHAPMAN
ROBERT W. DOWLING
HYMAN R. FAINE
EMIL FRIEDLANDER
ALFRED HARDING
HELEN HAYES
NORRIS HOUGHTON
WALTER KERR
ALEXANDER KIRKLAND
HERMAN LEVIN
JOSHUA LOGAN
SIDNEY LUMET
ALINE MAC MAHON
JOHN MARRIOTT
DONALD OENSLAGER
ELMER RICE
ARTHUR SCHWARTZ
BEATRICE STRAIGHT
MARGARET WEBSTER

EDWARD L. BERNAYS
MRS. SHIRLEY C. FISK

MUSIC

LEON BARZIN
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
LEHMAN ENGEL
WILLIAM FEINBERG
MORTON GOULD
MRS. RANDOLPH GUGGENHEIMER
JOHN HAMMOND, JR.
ANDRE KOSTALANETZ
AL KNOPF
JACQUES MALKIN
AL MANUTI
MAXWELL POWERS
NADIA REISENBERG
ALFRED A. ROSSIN
MRS. CECILE RUTH SANDS
JANET D. SCHENCK
WILLIAM SCHUMAN
VIRGIL THOMSON
ROMAN TOTENBERG
CAROL TRUAX
ALFRED WALLENSTEIN
GERALD WARBURG
PETER J. WILHOUSKY

DANCE

ANATOLE CHUJOY
MARTHA GRAHAM
MARTHA HILL
HANYA HOLM
LOUIS HORST
LYDIA JOEL
NORA KAYE
LINCOLN KIRSTEIN
JOSE LIMON
JOHN MARTIN
ZACHARY SOLOV
HELEN TAMIRIS
WALTER TERRY

RADIO and TELEVISION

VINCENT DONEHUE
WORTHINGTON MINER
MORRIS NOVIK

Advisory Board for Vocational
and Extension Education

DAVID M. FREUDENTHAL, Chman.
JOHN F. CREAMER
MRS. SHIRLEY C. FISK
GUS KEENAN
MOE ROSEN
ISADOR LUBIN
PETER F. CALLERY
MISS ANGELA R. PARISI
DON H. TAYLOR

BETTY HAWLEY DONNELLY
Executive Secretary

May 15, 1964

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

Dear Mr. Hughes:

You absolutely transported all of us
out of ourselves in today's assembly program. This was
one of those once-in-a-lifetime experiences which it will
be our good fortune to remember for the rest of time.

Thank you for opening the old world to
make a new one. Your thoughts, your words, your manner
and your style, as well as your subject and your thrilling
interpretation of your poems to music were, in themselves,
theatre at its best.

Sept. 21, 1964

Mr. Samuel G. Gilbert
Principal
John M. Coleman
Jr. High School 271
1137 Herkimer Street
Brooklyn, N. Y. 11233

Dear Mr. Gilbert:

I am holding all mail for Mr. Hughes
until his return from Europe where he is
to participate in the Berlin Arts Festival
and to spend additional time in Paris and
London.

He stay will be an extended one.

P.S. Because of the uncertainty of Mr. Hughes time of return, it may not be possible for him to come to your school.

BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
110 LIVINGSTON STREET, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11201
OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
HUMAN RELATIONS UNIT

FREDERICK H. WILLIAMS
DIRECTOR

October 29, 1964

Dear Mr. Hughes:

The Human Relations Unit of the Board of Education of New York City is sponsoring a T. V. program on Channel 13, called *The Negro in America: The End of a Myth*. It is our hope that you may be willing and able to appear as a guest speaker or panelist on this in-service training course for teachers, which is also open to public viewing, Wednesdays 4:00 - 4:30.

When we last tried to communicate with you, we heard that you had gone to Europe. We're writing again now, however, on the chance that you may be home or coming home in time for one of our broadcast sessions. The videotaping usually is done on Thursday afternoon from 2:00 to 3:30 at the WNDT studio at 345 W. 46th St. in Manhattan. The date which we know is open is Wednesday, November 25, covering the period 1914-33. Even if you could not join us then, but could for a later date, please let us know.

May I say that we find your book, *A Pictorial History of the Negro in America* most valuable; we are continually recommending it.

And may I personally as a playwright also wish you best of luck with your European openings.

HH:gk

November 2, 1964

Mr. Haven Hubbard
Board of Education of the City of N. Y.
110 Livingston Street
Brooklyn, New York 11201

Dear Mr. Hubbard:

Your kind invitation for appearance
on Channel 13 on Wednesday, November 25th
extended to Mr. Hughes arrived at a time when
he is in Europe. He is not expected to return
until late this month, so that date is out of
the question. You do suggest that a later date
might be arranged, however, so I am placing your
letter on his desk for attention upon his return.
I know Mr. Hughes will appreciate your thinking
of him.

November 10th 1964

Mrs. Sylvia Dlugatch
Christopher Columbus High School
Astor and Colden Avenues
New York 69, New York

Dear Mrs. Dlugatch:

Because Mr. Hughes is in Europe
and will not return until later this month,
I should like to acknowledge your kind
invitation for him to come to your school
during Brotherhood Week.

Mr. Hughes has a heavy writing
schedule this season and I know that he
will not be able to fulfill lecture engage-
ments other than those for which he is
already committed. However, I know that he
will appreciate knowing you thought of him.

November 23rd 1964

Mr. Haven Hubbard
Human Relations Unit
Board of Education
110 Livingston Street
Brooklyn, N. Y. 11201

Dear Mr. Hubbard:

I have just returned from Europe to
find your kind invitation to appear on your
Channel 13 television course. I cannot appear
at this time because of a heavy writing schedule
and the possibility of having to return to
Europe early next year. However, I really
appreciate your thinking of me at this time.

LH:r