Includes carbon copies of letters and CVV photographic postcards to Himes from CVV; original and carbon copies of letters to and/or from Jean Himes (1947); William Cole of Alfred A. Knopf (1947); Willard Motley (1947); Donald Friede of the World Publishing Company (1954-1955); the Literary Clipping Service (1954); Walter Freeman the New American Library (1955-1956); Don Preston of Avon Books (1959-1960); Sheilah Hillman of Gold Medal Books (1959); Joseph Hunter and Kristin Hunter (1960); Marianne Greenwood (1962-1963); Lurton Blassingame (1964); typed letter signed by Mary M. Jones to "Estelle" (1945) enclosed with letter from Himes to CVV (1953); cancelled check to Himes from CVV (1957)
Includes typescript carbon review by Alain Locke of The Weary Blues enclosed with Hughes's letter of 1926 January 23; cancelled checks from CVV; postcard from Hughes, Fort Valley, Georgia, to CVV co-signed by Zora Neale Hurston, 1927 August 17; typescript carbon copy of contract between Hughes and Prentiss Taylor establishing The Golden Stair Press enclosed with Hughes's letter of 1931 September 8; "The Town of Scottsboro" typescript with autograph note to CVV dated 1932 January 2; typed letter, signed, from Arnold Gingrich, of Esquire magazine to Mark Lutz, dated 1934 January 4
Includes cancelled checks from CVV to Hughes (1938, 1942); typescript of "America's Young Black Joe," words and music by Langston Hughes and Elliott Carpenter, with typed note from Hughes, 1940 December 6; typescript of "Hip to the Jive" words by Hughes and music by Johnny Bragg, enclosed with letter, 1942 August 19; typescript poems enclosed with Hughes letter, 1942 October 4; typescript poems, "South Side: Chicago" enclosed with Hughes's letter, 1945 July 27
Includes letters from Florence B. Price (1943); John H. Johnson of Negro Digest (1944) and Ebony magazine (1945); Carol Fijan of the International Workers Order, Inc. (1944); "Henry Mack," typescript poem by Witter Bynner enclosed with Jackman letter to CVV (1944); photograph of Lena Horne sent as a postcard from Jackman to CVV (1945) and the script from a radio broadcast on W.N.Y.C. on the life of Langston Hughes (1944)
Includes typescript draft verses for God's Trombones with autograph note from Johnson to CVV (1926); color brochure of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, with autograph note from Johnson to CVV (1929)
