A Preliminary Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
Creator:
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
Title:
Langston Hughes Collection
Dates:
1961, undated
Extent:
1 folder
Abstract:
The Langston Hughes Collection contains a
single handwritten and a single typed draft of the poem 'The
Strange Angel' and a typed letter refering to the drafts. Also present is a signed,
spanish language greeting card removed from a Ransom Center copy of The Big Sea: An Autobiography by Langston Hughes.
Call Number:
Manuscript Collection MS-02060
Language:
English and Spanish
Access:
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Administrative Information
Preferred Citation:
Langston Hughes Collection (Manuscript Collection MS-02060). Harry Ransom Center,
The
University of Texas at Austin.
The Langston Hughes Collection contains a single handwritten and a single typed draft
of
the poem 'The Strange Angel' and a typed letter refering
to the drafts, all dating to 1961. Also present is an undated, signed, Spanish language
greeting card removed from a Ransom Center copy of The Big Sea: An
Autobiography by Langston Hughes.
The materials are in good condition and are unarranged in a single folder.
Related Material
Other Ransom Center collections with Langston Hughes materials include the John L.
Spivak
Collection (MS-03939), the Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Records (MS-MS-00062), the Nancy
Cunard
Collection (MS-01010), the New Departures Collection
(MS-03008), and the Transcription Centre Collection (MS-04266).
A large collection of Langston Hughes papers are available at the Beinecke Rare Book
and
Manauscript Library at Yale University.
