BIB_ID
436111
Accession number
MA 23731
Creator
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
Display Date
Cleveland, Ohio, 1937 January 18.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2020.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.9 x 12.5 cm
Notes
Hughes lists the place of writing as "2256 East 86th Street, / Cleveland, Ohio."
Provenance
Purchased from Hindman Auctions, Sale 759: Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner, Lot 264, October 8, 2020.
Summary
Writing in detail about their collaboration on the opera "Troubled Island," about the life of Jean-Jacques Dessalines and the Haitian Revolution; listing the differences between the play he recently sent Still and an opera outline that he had sent the previous year; suggesting books on Haiti for background reading, including Black Haiti, Black Majesty, Babouk, Black Democracy, The Magic Island, and Voodoo Fire in Haiti; responding to Still's reference to the fact that he has a "new musical typewriter" and saying that he himself has a "new writing typewriter (my other one being now 12 years old) and our libretto will be the first work done on this new machine of mine."
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