THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS
New York, NY: Handy Brothers Music Co. Inc., circa. 1942. Small pamphlet, unpaginated. In Very Good condition. Cardstock folded in fourths. Includes sheet music to Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," as adapted by Margaret Bonds. Also includes advertisement and subscription card for Handy Brother Music Co. Inc. Shelved in Case 3.
1419248
Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $400
NOTES
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.