From Julian Bond to Casper Jordan, 7 Sept 1967, with poem memorializing Langston Hugues

September 7, 1967

Mr. Casper L. Jordan Editor Free Lance 4610 Terrace Drive Niagara Falls, New York 14305

Gentlemen:

If is my pleasure to respond to your kind letter. Mr. Hughes helped me publish my first poems and helped got the works of friends into print for the first time.

I wrote the lines below some five years or more ago; slightly changed, I offer them to you now.

Langston Hughes writes of Harlem's simple folks We are not impressed! We don't like to see ourselves with our souls undressed

Sincerely,

Julian Bond

JB:jc