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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