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Second Letter from Douglas Watson (page 2 of 3)
![Negro Digest 1820 SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE Chicago 16, Ill.
CALUMET 5-1000
May 23, 1967
Dear Mr. Emanuel:
In view of the terrible
fact of Langston Hughes
death, do you feel that there is a particular chapter or
portion of your forthcoming book which would lend itself to
excerpt in NEGRO DIGEST? I am thinking of the Poetry Issue,
which will be dedicated to Langston Hughes.
It is so fortunate that
your book is ready at this time. Did Langston have the
opportunity of seeing it?
Please let me have your
reaction to the above at your earliest convenience.
Very truly yours,
[signature]
Hoyt. W. Fuller
Managing Editor
Mr. James A. Emanuel
405 Nuber
Mount Vernon, New York 10553
HWF/pb
A JOHNSON PUBLICATION](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/6/8/c/68c1cd01-1086-456c-891d-9b76b493fc78/attachment/f9d07a580dde8aa328c3a245e9e316f9.jpg)
Letter from Hoyt Fuller
![3, rue du Midi, B 129
31400 Toulouse
FRANCE
16 October 1979
President Alice Chandler
The City College of
The City University of New York
Convent Avenue at 138th Street
New York, New York 10031
Dear Alice,
Congratulations on your taking over as Acting Presi-
dent of CCNY. When I remember the moments of order and
clarity that you brought to our departmental meetings over
the years, I am sure that CCNY will profit from your stand
at the helm.
During my sabbatical year, 1978-1978, I had the unusual
experience of writing difficult poetry constantly, except
for breathing spells that I took by driving to Spain, Portugal,
Germany, etc. I spent six months writing in an attic flat in
London, then six months in a small apartment in Montparnasse
in Paris--in deliberate isolation. As a result, I have a
new volume of poetry coming out soon, entitled A Chisel in the
Dark.
As you probably know, the Ministry of Education in Paris
granted me a visiting professorship--as part of the "national
contingent," and serving at the University of Toulouse--for
1979-1980, renewable for a second year. The University here,
incidentally, is offering a one-semester course on my poetry,
using as a text The Toulouse Poems that I had published by
Lotus Press of Detroit last year. The American embassies in London and Paris are arranging reading tours for me already,
so all is well on the poetry front.
A university official here will be writing to you, by the
end of this month, he said, in an attempt to get your cooperat-
tion in securing a second year of leave without pay for me.
It seems that the University of Toulouse will be disadvantaged
in a few rather serious ways if I must leave at the end of
this academic year. As for me, I have strong reasons for pre-
ferrring to remain here a second year; so I shall appreciate
anything you can do to help.
In the meantime, good luck in your hard job, and I hope
that you will find both pleasure and pleasantries in these
autumn days.
Cordially,
[signature - Jim]
James A. Emanuel](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/d/2/8/d28f7177-77b2-442a-89ab-5f4f9d79aeae/attachment/a55c5d16d78112ba238ae78f53d36827.jpg)
Letter to President Alice Chandler of CUNY
![[letter]
REGISTERED MAIL
195 Hoyt Street, 4E
Brooklyn 17, New York
October 27, 1958
Dr. W. E. B. DuBois
31 Grace Court
Brooklyn, New York
Dear Doctor DuBois:
Last week in doctoral seminar at Columbia University, I
presented to my classmates and instructor (Professor Lewis Leary)
an intention that may interest you: the writing of a dissertation
on your role in the history of creative literature in America.
You will understand, I am sure, my desire to establish with you
some kind of contact to further this project. Although I am now not
sufficiently free to develop my plan other than by fragmentary notes,
I shall get under way vigorously by springtime. In the meantime it
occurs to me that, since my work will be the first substantial effort
to study your literary productions, you may favor me with suggestions
for locating material not accessible through libraries, or with ideas
especially meaningful to you.
My acquaintance with your works is limited so far to survey-type
comments by writers such as Brawley, Sterling Brown, Gloster, Hunting,
Dreer, Wynn, and a few others, as well as my own sampling of Souls of
Black Folk, Dusk of Dawn, and The Ordeal of Mansart. Sending that your
literary life means more than I have yet seen hinted at, I believe that
your work, moreso than that of any other single figure, tells the story
of those of our race who have been authors in America.
Let me say at the outset that I am, and shall remain, ready to put
aside all but the most pressing demands on my time, to receive by any
means that may suit you whatever suggestions or information you may be
disposed to convey to me. My classwork and teaching job demand my time
before one o'clock on Wednesdays and after three o'clock on Monday through
Thursday. My telephone number is Ulster 5-8555. I look forward to having
some word from you as soon as you find it convenient.
Very sincerely yours,
James A. Emanuel
[envelope]
James A. Emanuel
195 Hoyt S., 4E
Brooklyn 17, N.Y.
Return to writer
Unclaimed
Dr. W. E. B. Dubuis
31 Grace Court
Brooklyn, New York
Registered 168765
Unclaimed
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Letter to W. E. B. DuBois
Letter to Julius E. Thompson, August 1991 (page 1 of 3)
![SIU
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Carbondale, Illinois 62901-4329
Black American Studies
College of Liberal Arts
618-453-7147
Julius E. Thompson
Historian, Poet, and Education Consultant
Black American Studies Program
Department of History
Faner Hall 4022
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Carbondale, Illinois 62901-4329
Phone 618-453-7140
Stonegate Apt. #5
703 South Wall Street
Carbondale, Illinois 62901
Phone 618-549-6542 (Home)
31 August 1991
Dear Professor Emanuel,
Thanks so very much for your kindness in returning
the questionnaire on Dudley Randall and Broadside Press
to me.
I'll keep you posted on developments my way, and I
hope to be able to send you a copy of the completed essay
in early 1992.
With warmest regards
[signature]
Julius E. Thompson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
P. S. Thanks also for the order form from Lotus Press. I have
just ordered your WHOLE GRAIN; and today I am ordering Deadly James and Other Poems. Happily I have your other works in my
collection. (I hope to attend the 1992 conference in February
on “Blacks in Europe,” to be held at the University of Paris.)
All the best for your work; and again, I deeply appreciate
our kindness in writing to me.](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/f/6/4/f64afd88-ea61-47aa-8970-9a1a78da726b/attachment/c81946427dae9241c5848155f7d3748c.jpg)
Letter from Julius E. Thompson August 1991
![For Prof. Douglas Watson: answers to questions in letter of Janu-
ary 1982
1. Yes, you may quote from Snowflakes and Steel in your essay for DLB.
2. Relative ages of my sisters and brother: Julia, 69; Raymond, 64;
Gladys, 62; Christine 57. (Deceased: Janet, who would have been
about 67 now; Alvin, who would have been 54.)
3. Christian Science and I: I have been influenced by it through the
strong character of my mother, especially in its mind—over—matter
principles. But I have been affiliated with no church aver since,
in 1942 or 1943, a "white" church in Washington, D.C., refused me
entrance as an air-raid shelter during a practice defense drill.
4. My most important teachers at Howard, Northwestern, and Columbia: at
Howard, I was much impressed by Margaret Just Butcher (beauty and
brains), John Lovell (incisive intellect), Frank Snowden (bril—
Brown (not my teacher, but was generous and entertaining to some
of us students). Alain Locke and John Hope Franklin (to whom I
dedicated a very recent poem) were not my teachers, but each called
me into his office to give me encouragement and offer aid. (OVER)
5. Langston Hughes: I did not know him before 1959, when I was at Columbia.
6. Broadside and Lotus Presses: I chose them because of their support of
Black writers. I had much correspondence with Dudley before I met
him in about 1970, and I have not yet met Namoi Long Madgett. (If
I remember correctly, I suggested the Broadside Press Critics Series
to Dudley when I was in Grenoble). Probably LP will publish my
anticipated 1982 volume.
7. The stolen literary papers: You may mention them in your essay for
DLB. DuBroff, it she depends upon her own interests, will probably
never know of the existence of Chisel or, perhaps, of DLB.
8. Yes, I plan to be at CCNY during 1982—84.
Isolated fact of possible interest: first literary recognition of my po-
etry: Flame Magazine, after a poll of poetry editors, sent me a "Cita-
tion for Merit" for my first serious poem, "Sonnet for a Writer," which
appeared in Phylon in 1958. It had been written at Northwestern, 1953.
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Paris, 10 January 1982
Deer Professor Watson,
Thanks for taking the trouble to write a long letter. It is encour—
aging to find an able critic interested in one's work. I'11 never write
another Snowflakes and Steel, and I am glad that you thought it worth my
effort. Too bad you couldn't see Anthony Suter's essay "Flowers That
Don't Live Long: The Poet's Journey Through Love ..." for it had good
insights (Phylon is now reading it--or someone at Phylon).
I look forward to seeing your essay. If you pursue your interest in
my poetry, which would be a compliment, I'll offer you whatever information (and unpublished work) that you might find helpful. In the meantime. please excuse this unusual letter—form--during my grappling with A Poet's Mind. And let me return your kind wishes for a 1982 that goes well, and with good work and good luck.
Sincerely,
[signature - Jim]
[everyone calls me]
James A. Emanuel](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/3/b/a/3ba6e016-fd39-4c92-a3a7-04a92ea361f4/attachment/c5962c06d00e6b1c8633e8dd30cf7237.jpg)
Letter to Douglas Watson January 1982 (page 1 of 2)
Follow up Letter to Douglas Watson May 1983
Second Letter from Douglas Watson (page 1 of 3)