Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 311

Price Realized: $ 2,160
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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) BONTEMPS, ARNA. Festival of Negro Poetry. Group of seven Typed Letters Signed to Dorothy Porter with retained carbon copies of three of her original letters to Bontemps. should be seen Nashville and Washington, 1948-1949

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small but important exchange of correspondence regarding a proposed Negro poetry festival. Bontemps writes from Fisk University that this might be perfect timing in that he and Langston Hughes have been working on an Anthology of Negro Poetry for Doubleday Publishers.