Hughes, Langston

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Description

Title
Hughes, Langston
Creator
From the Collection: Argus Book Shop (Chicago, Ill.)
Contributor
From the Collection: Abramson, Ben
Published / Created
1940-1944
Provenance
Gift of Philip D. Sang in 1955 and 1956., Deborah B. Covington's biography of her father, The Argus Book Shop: a Memoir (1977), reveals that Abramson's will instructed that "all records were to be destroyed and the stock sold within six months after his death" (p. 50). She wrote that "Going through six four-drawer file cabinets of correspondence was a big job. The author correspondence Ralph Newman purchased and arranged to have donated to Yale, Ben's favorite university" (p. 52), a choice likely influenced by Abramson's long friendship with Argus patron Norman Holmes Pearson (1909-1975), a professor of English at Yale University. Ralph Newman (1911-1998) was proprietor of the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago. Philip D. Sang (1902-1975), the donor of the collection, was a Chicago businessman, philanthropist, and collector of historical and literary manuscripts. Sang appears to have transferred the bulk of Abramson's "author correspondence" to Yale in 1956, but had given a few letters the previous year with another part of his manuscript collection. Covington mentioned in a 1957 letter to Yale curator Donald Gallup that Abramson had given some of Steinbeck's letters to collectors. The New York Public Library holds three folders of Abramson's correspondence with authors whose names begin with L through Z (MSS Col. 5).
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Digitization Note
Some reference surrogates have been substituted in the main files. Originals housed in box 16, folder 605
Language
English

Item Location

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
YCAL MSS 427
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Container / Volume
Box 7, folder 223

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Access And Usage Rights

Access
Public
Rights
Permission from the Langston Hughes Estate is required to publish materials by Langston Hughes in any format. Contact information for the Estate can be found in the WATCH File.
Citation
Argus Book Shop Correspondence. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
3765277
Object ID (OID)
17411913

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