Hughes, Langston

CHRISTMAS CARDS [MADAM’S CHRISTMAS] [Signed]

4.25" x 6.00" card with typed poem labelled "Christmas Cards." Possibly earlier version of Madam’s Christmas, lacking verse on Jack. Agetoning to card stock with glue staining on verso. Inscribed to Bob and Anne Doyle and signed "Langston." Shelved in Case Three.

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Shelved Dupont Bookstore

Price: $3,000

NOTES

A typed poem just labeled ‘Christmas Cards’ comprising a possibly earlier version of Madam’s
Christmas, lacking verse on Jack.

Robert and Ann Doyle met Langston Hughes when Robert was at the Chicago Tribune’s radio station WGN and he hosted Hughes for a broadcast hour. Robert Doyle served as the Time Shanghai bureau chief in 1948. One of the last evacuees from Nanking, he then established a bureau office in Hong Kong. He was killed in Java in April of 1950, and Hughes’ was the first cable to arrive in Hong Kong for Ann. "Two Americans Are Found Slain On Jeep Journey in Central Java; One Victim Is R.J. Doyle of Time Magazine The Other Is Believed to Be Professor Raymond Kennedy of Yale" THE NEW YORK TIMES April 29, 1950, Page 3.