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HUGHES, LANGSTON. An archive of poems, essays, cor

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HUGHES, LANGSTON
An archive of Langston Hughes material, circa 1935-1941, consisting of autographed and typed correspondence, poems, essays and prose works sent to Miss Thyra J. Edwards (1997-1953). A very accomplished social worker living in Chicago, Miss Edwards first met Langston Hughes when both were boarding at the Abraham Lincoln Center, a settlement house still functioning on the city's south side.

Highlights of the archive include typed and handwritten personal letters between Hughes and Miss Edwards, typed poems and prose with Hughes's commentary either hand written or typed at the bottom and a typed article "What the Negro Wants." Hughes sent Edwards the poems and essays to read on air, writing his own commentary and recommendations both typed and hand written within the margins.

Contents of the archive include the following:
15 typescript poem, six of which have personal commentary to Thyra Edwards, four of those being holographic: Southern Negro Speaks, Let's See Some Changes Made, This Puzzles Me, Domestic Happenings (Subject to Change Without Notice), Why Such a Difference? Explain It, Please, America's Young Black Joe, Love Again Blues, The Mitchell Case, Ballad of Sam Solomon, Rarin' to Fight, NAACP, Negro: Everywhere, Three Songs About Lynching: Silhouette (With Violins), Flight (With Oboe and Flute), Lynching Song (With Trumpets), Merry-Go-Round. One typescript for a radio broadcast of Guest of Honor, by Langston Hughes and Ed Walsh. 3pp. Two typescript prose works, comprising Mother and Child. 3pp. Signed, "Salud, Thyra!" and Harlem Sweeties. 2pp. One typescript article, What the Negro Wants. An Article. 6pp. Three typed letters signed and two autographed letters signed by Langston Hughes to Thyra Edwards. Also together with research and materials relating to the Abraham Lincoln Center.

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