(LITERATURE) Langston Hughes Signed program from his appeara

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(LITERATURE.) Langston Hughes. Signed program from his appearance at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival. 4 pages, 10 x 7 inches, on one folding sheet; folds, otherwise minimal wear; signed and inscribed on front page "Dear Hans, it was so nice to have your wire on the Long John Show. Langston." Stratford, ON, 23 July 1958

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The Stratford Shakespearean Festival in southern Ontario, Canada, has long featured a wide variety of performances in addition to Shakespeare. This 1958 program is for a jazz performance by Henry "Red" Allen and His All-Stars as accompanists to a spoken-work performance by Langston Hughes of his poetry.

Four days earlier, Hughes was in New York for a late-night reading of his work on the Long John radio talk show on WOR, which the Daily News of 21 July 1958 called "pure verbal magic."