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To “Laura”, thanking her for sending “immensely interesting programs” of several Black drama groups, which seemed “most exciting”. He hoped they were getting “adequate promotion” as “so often most of the energy goes into production, and then there’s scant audiences to see the art”. His experience was that “it is easy to find folks who want to be actors, but folks to book clubs, sell tickets door to door, distribute leaflets, get subscribers, build up a financial backlog – that’s the hard part.” Hughes refers her to a “Negro booker”, the agent who handled his “Jericho Jim Crow” play in New York (and also represented the Alvin Ailey Dancers) and notes that rights to his play “Simply Heavenly” were available. “Tell the Folkloric Troupe I am delighted they are using my poems. I’m sending some new ones you might pass on to them…” Unfortunately, the poems, apparently once attached to his letter, are no longer present. Written three years before the poet’s death in 1967, this fine literary letter displays his continued interest in the efforts of young Black artists such as the moving spirits of the Afro-American Folkloric Troupe of Harlem, which helped raise money for C.O.R.E. and its southern Freedom Rides.