THE JEFFERSON SCHOOL of Social Science

575 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK 11, N. Y. • WATKINS 9-1600

DR. HOWARD SELSAM, Director
DAVID GOLDWAY, Executive Secretary

February 22, 1949

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

Dear Langston:

We invite you to participate in our cooperative course on "Great Masters of World Literature" by lecturing on Monday, June 27, on PABLO NERUDA AND NICHOLAS GUILLEN.

The course comprises ten lectures by different critics on the following: Balzac, Dickens, Whitman, Chekhov, Joyce, Gorki, Nexo, Aleichen, Mann, and Neruda and Guillen. Participants include Edwin Burgum, Margaret Schlauch, Howard Fast, Milton Howard, Morris Schappes, Francine Bradley, Annette Rubinstein, Samuel Sillen, and (we hope) Arnold D'Usseau and yourself.

We did this course during the winter term (or rather, we are conducting it now) with a different group of great writers; and it is proving very popular. It is this experience which prompts us to continue the course next term, which begins in April and ends with your lecture in late June.

Our spring term catalogue is already in press; hence we should appreciate your calling me by phone to let me know whether you can participate. We still have a day or so to make additions to proofs at the printers.

We do hope you can be with us.

P.S. - THE POETRY OF THE NEGRO is a beautiful job. Also, your recent DEFENDER column on the trial of "The 12" was top-notch, and very helpful.

D.A.W.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Prof. Lyman R. Bradley,
Chairman

Frederick V. Field,
Secretary

Alexander Trachtenberg,
Treasurer

Robert L. Dunn

Dr. William A. Hunton

Harry Sacher

Rubin Saltzman

Prof. Margaret Schlauch

Dr. Howard Selsam

Prof. Dirk J. Strulk

Doxey A. Wilkerson

Nathan Witt

Ruth Young

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Frederick V. Field,
Secretary

Robert W. Dunn

Dr. Philip S. Foner

Dashiell Hammett

Dr. William A. Hunton

Harry Sacher

Rubin Saltzman

Dr. Howard Selsam

Doxey A. Wilkerson

Nathan Witt

Ruth Young

Dr. Annette T. Rubinstein
Faculty Representative

February 6, 1950

Dear Mr. Hughes:

We invite you to lecture in our spring term
course on Great Masters of World Literature III.
See topic and date on appended schedule.

Please let us know within two or three days
whether we may list you for this lecture in our
spring catalog, which is about to go to press.
Thanks.

Very truly yours,

Doxey
Doxey A. Wilkerson
Director of Faculty and Curriculum

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February 9, 1950

Mr. Doxey A. Walkerson
The Jefferson School of Social Science
575 Sixth Avenue
New York 11, New York

Dear Doxey:

I am just about to take off for lectures in the middle
West and I want to answer your letter before I go.

I regret very much that I will not be able to talk at
the Jefferson School this spring. I've got three shows
on my hands at the moment (one of which, THE BARRIER, looks
as though it is heading for Broadway shortly). Another in-
volves a possible motion picture and, if current negotiations
are carried through, I will have to go to the coast in April
for several weeks. Once there, I think I will remain all
summer and get some writing done.

My very best regards to you.

LH/nwv