Jul 30, 2020 - Sale 2543

Sale 2543 - Lot 191

Price Realized: $ 250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
HUGHES, LANGSTON. Typed Letter Signed, "Langston," to editor William Kozlenko, on a postcard, agreeing to the publication of his play, "Don't You Want to Be Free." 1 page, oblong 12mo; postmark on verso. New York [from postmark], 8 July 1938

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"I would of course be happy to permit DON'T YOU WANT TO BE FREE to be published in your forthcoming anthology . . . but the business end of it must go through my agent, Maxim Lieber . . . ."
With--One Act Play Magazine, Vol. II, No. 4. 4to, wrappers. New York, 1938. This issue contains Hughes's play, "Don't You Want to Be Free."