PATTERSON, LOUISE THOMPSON.
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Langston Hughes materials
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Series 3
Langston Hughes materials
Boxes 17-18
Scope and Content Note
The Langston Hughes materials consist of correspondence, writings, and a small group of items about Langston Hughes. The correspondence consists primarily of original letters to Louise Thompson Patterson, 1932-1962, and a small group of photocopied letters from other repositories, 1932-1966. The writings consist of works of drama; poetry, including a number of typescripts signed by the author; and a small number of works of prose, ca. 1937-1949. The items about Langston Hughes include clippings, programs, a broadside, and materials relating to a film project, "Langston Hughes: Poet of the People", which includes the typescript of an interview with Louise Thompson Patterson.
Arrangement Note
Correspondence is arranged in chronological order, and writings are alphabetical by title.
Correspondence | ||
Box | Folder | Content |
---|---|---|
17 | 1 | Hughes to Patterson, February 4, 19[??], ALS, 2pp. |
17 | 2 | Hughes to Patterson, November 3, 19[??], TNS, post card |
17 | 3 | Hughes to Patterson, December 14, 19[??], TLS with AN, 1 p. |
17 | 4 | Hughes to Patterson, n.d., TLS with AN, 1p. |
17 | 5 | Hughes to Patterson, n.d., TLS with AN, 2 pp. |
17 | 6 | Hughes to Patterson, n.d., TLS, 1 p. |
17 | 7 | Hughes to Patterson, n.d., ANS, 2 pp. |
17 | 8 | Hughes to Patterson, n.d., TLS, 1 p. |
17 | 9 | Hughes to Patterson, n.d., TLS, 1 p. |
17 | 10 | Hughes to Patterson, n.d., TLS, 1 p. |
17 | 11 | Hughes to Patterson, n.d., TLS, 1 p. |
17 | 12 | Hughes to Patterson, n.d., TLS, greeting card, with ANS |
17 | 13 | Hughes to Patterson, n.d., TL, 1 p. |
17 | 14 | Hughes to [Patterson?], n.d., Wassili N.Jakowlew print of "Partisan" with ANS |
17 | 15 | Hughes to Patterson, December 30, 1932, ANS, post card |
17 | 16 | Hughes to Patterson, July 26, [1937?], ANS, post card |
17 | 17 | Hughes to Patterson, September 1937, TN with "Post Card From Madrid: Addressed to Alabama", first draft with ANS, post card [See also Series 3: "Post Card From Madrid"] |
17 | 18 | Hughes to Patterson, September 26, 1937, TLS, 1 p. |
17 | 19 | Hughes to Patterson, October 4, 1937, TLS, 1 p. |
17 | 20 | Hughes to Patterson, October 13, 1937, TLS, 1 p. |
17 | 21 | Hughes to Patterson, July 12, 1938, ALS, 1 p. |
17 | 22 | Hughes to Patterson, July 16, 1938, ANS, 4 pp. with envelope |
17 | 23 | Hughes to Patterson, September 2, 1938, greeting card with ANS |
17 | 24 | Hughes to Patterson, January 14, 1939, TLS, 1 p. |
17 | 25 | Hughes to Patterson, January 29, 1939, TLS, 2 pp. |
17 | 26 | Hughes to Patterson, February 14, 1939, news clipping with envelope |
17 | 27 | Hughes to Patterson, August 2, 1939, ANS, post card |
17 | 28 | Hughes to Patterson, December 4, 1939, TLS with holograph notes in margins, 1 p. |
17 | 29 | Hughes to Patterson, January 19, 1940, TLS, 1 p. |
17 | 30 | Hughes to Patterson, April 10, 1940, ANS, post card |
17 | 31 | Hughes to Patterson, August 11, 1940, TL with ANS, 4 pp. with envelope |
17 | 32 | Hughes to Patterson, December 4, 1940, TLS, 1 p. |
17 | 33 | Hughes to Patterson, January 6, 1941, TLS, 1 p. |
17 | 34 | Hughes to Patterson, January 25, 1941, ALS, 2 pp. with envelope |
17 | 35 | Hughes to Patterson, March 10, 1941, TLS with holograph notes in margins, 2 pp. |
17 | 36 | Hughes to Patterson, March 29, 1941, clipping with ANS and envelope |
17 | 37 | Hughes to Patterson, May 8, 1941, TLS, 1 p. |
17 | 38 | Hughes to Patterson, June 17, 1941, 1 p. with envelope |
17 | 39 | Hughes to Patterson, November 5, 1941, 1 p. |
17 | 40 | Hughes to Patterson, November 11, 1941, TLS, 1 p. with envelope |
17 | 41 | Hughes to MaryLouise Patterson, March 1943, TLS, 1 p., "Where the Armies Passed", with dedication and signature, typescript, 1 p.; first draft of first stanza in Hughes' hand and dated 2 March 1943 |
17 | 42 | Hughes to Patterson and William L. Patterson, April 15, 1943, ANS |
17 | 43 | Hughes to Doris, February 6, 1959, TL (carbon) with ANS to LTP |
17 | 44 | Hughes to Patterson, October 14, 1959, TLS with AN, 1 p. |
17 | 45 | Hughes to Patterson, November 1, 1961, TNS, post card |
17 | 46 | Hughes to Patterson, December 6, 1961, with wedding announcement [Mary Louise Patterson], 1961 |
17 | 47 | Hughes to Patterson, June 16, 1962, ANS, post card |
17 | 48 | Hughes to Patterson, envelopes |
17 | 49 | LTP to Hughes and Hughes to LTP, 1930-1966 and undated, photocopies from originals in The Yale University Library |
17 | 50 | Mary Louise Patterson to Hughes, 1952-1962, photocopies from originals in The Yale University Library |
17 | 51 | William L. Patterson to Hughes and Hughes to William L. Patterson, 1938-1964, photocopies from originals in The Yale University Library |
Writings: Drama | ||
18 | 1 | Harlem Suitcase Theatre skits: "Limitations of Life", carbon typescript, 3 pp; "Don't You Want To Be Free", copy, 1 p.; and "Join Hands with Me", copy, 1 p. [See also Series 1: "Harlem Suitcase Theatre"] |
18 | 2 | "Limitations of Life", a satire on the movie "Imitation of Life," script, carbon typescript, 4 pp. |
18 | 3 | "Scottsboro Limited", photocopy of printed script, 10 pp. |
18 | 4 | "Soul Gone Home", a one-act play, corrected typescript, 8 pp. |
Writings: Poems | ||
18 | 5 | "The Backlash Blues", photocopied typescript with dedication and signature, 1 p. |
18 | 6 | "Battle Ground", carbon typescript, 1 p. |
18 | 7 | "Goodmorning, Stalingrad", 2nd draft, carbon typescript, 2 pp. |
18 | 8 | "Goodmorning, Stalingrad", 5th draft, dated January 18, 1943, corrected typescript with greeting, 3 pp. |
18 | 9 | "Hero: International Brigade", carbon typescript with note: "not for publication," 1937, 1 p. |
18 | 10 | "Just an Ordinary Guy", carbon typescript with note and signature, 2 pp. |
18 | 11 | "Letter from Spain: Addressed to Alabama", typescript, 1937, 1 p. |
18 | 12 | "Love Letter from Spain: Addressed to Alabama", typescript, 1937, 1 p. |
18 | 13 | "High to Low" and "Low to High", reprints, Midwest Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, Summer 1949, pp. 25-26 with dedication, note, and signature, 2 pp. |
18 | 14 | "Lumumba's Grave", carbon typescript with typed note: "Already submitted for publication. Do not print elsewhere. L.H.," 1 p. |
18 | 15 | "Madrid, 1937", carbon typescript with greeting and signature, 1937, 2 pp. |
18 | 16 | "Mayakowsky's Cuban Poems", (includes introduction, "Nanking Road" and "Black and White"), Langston Hughes's free verse literal adaptations of Mayakowsky's poems, corrected typescript, 7 pp. |
18 | 17 | "The Mitchell Case", typescript, 1 p. |
18 | 18 | "Poem to Uncle Sam", carbon typescript with note and envelope, 1 p. |
18 | 19 | "Post Card from Madrid: Addressed to Alabama", typescript, 1937, 1 p. [See also Series 2: Hughes to LTP, September 1937] |
18 | 20 | "Simple's Soliloquy from 'Hamlet'", typescript with note, 1 p. |
18 | 21 | "Soldiers in Ethiopia", by Nicolas Guillen, translated from Spanish by Langston Hughes, 1937, typescript, 2 pp. |
18 | 22 | "Song for Ourselves", carbon typescript, 1 p. |
18 | 23 | "Stalingrad: 1942", carbon typescript, 3 pp. |
18 | 24 | "To Captain Mulzac", [as read at the Mulzac Dinner, Hotel Commodore, January 12, 1943], carbon typescript with notes, 1 p. |
Writings: Prose | ||
18 | 25 | "Concerning Goodbye Christ", carbon typescript with notation: "immediate release," 4 pp. |
18 | 26 | "The Duke Plays for Russia", carbon typescript with notation: "Chicago Defender-Immediate Release," 3 pp. |
18 | 27 | "My Adventures as a Social Poet", reprint, Phylon, vol. 8, no. 3, 1947 |
18 | 28 | "Negroes in Spain", [1 of 2], ("A proposed booklet to be made up of articles written in Spain (and pictures) sent to the Baltimore Afro-American, the Associated Press, and various magazines in the United States"), carbon typescript, includes table of contents, 1 p.; introduction, 4 pp.; "Air-Raid in Barcelona", 5pp.; "The Road to Spain", 6 pp.; "Negroes in Spain", 5 pp.; "Moors in Spain", 4 pp.; "Madrid: City Under Fire", 5 pp., "In the Trenches of Madrid", 4 pp. "The International Brigade", 5 pp.; "Lieutenant Walter Garland in Command", 11 pp.; "Food for the Fifteen Hundred: Abraham Lewis", 3 pp.; "Pittsburgh Boy Cited for Bravery in Spain", 3 pp.; "St Louis Citizen Taken for a Moor", 2 pp. with envelope |
18 | 29 | "Negroes in Spain", [2 of 2], typescript with corrections 16 pp.; also includes "Barcelona", typescript, 5 pp.; "Port-Bou", 1 p, [fragment] and "black warriors, 1" photocopied typescript, 7 p. |
18 | 30 | "Separate Boxes", corrected carbon typescript with notation: New York Post, 4 pp. |
Materials Regarding Langston Hughes | ||
18 | 31 | Audience questionnaire, Negro People's Theatre |
18 | 32 | Book jackets [Faith Berry, Langston Hughes: Before and Beyond Harlem and unidentified fragment] |
18 | 33 | Broadside, "Making Words: Sing, Talk and Dance," publicity for joint program of Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, Los Angeles, 1938 |
18 | 34 | Clippings |
18 | 35 | Clippings: reviews |
18 | 36 | Flyer for "Black Nativity" [2 copies, one with ANS], Broadway performance, n.d. |
18 | 37 | Invitation to join The Langston Hughes Society, 1982 |
18 | 38 | Johnson, Dorothy V., "Langston Hughes", typescript, 3 pp. |
18 | 39 | "Langston Hughes: Poet of the People", printed lesson plan with ANS, 1933 |
18 | 40 | "Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper", film project of the New York Center for Visual History [directed by Saint Claire Bourne], correspondence, transcript of interview with Louise Thompson Patterson regarding Langston Hughes, miscellaneous printed matter, 1985 |
18 | 41 | Obituaries, memorial service program, 1967 |
18 | 42 | Post card, announcement of International Interdisciplinary Conference on Langston Hughes, City College of New York, 17-19 November 1988 |
18 | 43 | Program and announcement for joint program, Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, 7 December 1938 |
18 | 44 | Programs, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Heritage Weekend 1991 celebrating Langston Hughes, 1-2 February 1991 |
18 | 45 | Programs, theatre productions: "Front Porch," the Gilpin Players; "Mule Bone," Lincoln Center Theater, 1991 [brochure and Playbill] |