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Langston Hughes Collection, Accession 8870-g, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Purchase 1995 May 31
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[regrets that he does not know anyone who meets the teaching requirements mentioned by Mrs. Steele, mentions his work on getting two large books to press, A Pictorial History of the Negro in America and his autobiography I Wonder As I Wander which prevented him from answering her letter sooner, and hopes to see her this summer]
[furnishes many details of his celebration of the Christmas season and gifts he received, his trip to California to visit his Uncle Johnny and his return home on his first jet plane; mentions missing the Harry Belafonte TV show because he had a speaking engagement in Connecticut the same night; describes a bullfight bar owned by Barnaby Conrad which he visited a year ago; thanks her for her present of wax matches; and mentions Josephine Baker who "is now reading Tambourines to Glory and the Theatre Guild is hoping she might be our leading lady, with Odetta for the other main role. We'll see! I only believe such things when they actually happen."]