A Guide to the Letter to F. Coleman Rosenberger, October 21, 1948 Rosenberger, F. Coleman, Letter to 8870-i

A Guide to the Letter to F. Coleman Rosenberger, October 21, 1948

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Accession Number 8870-i

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Repository

Special Collections, University of Virginia Library

Accession number

8870-i

Title

Letter to F. Coleman Rosenberger, October 21, 1948

Physical Characteristics

This collection contains 1 page, TLS, with envelope.

Collector

Sharon Defibaugh

Language

English

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Letter to F. Coleman Rosenberger, October 21, 1948, Accession #8870-i , Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was purchased by the Library from Gallery of History, Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 2, 1997.

Scope and Content Information

Langston Hughes, New York City, writes to F. Coleman Rosenberger, Alexandria, Virginia, on October 21, 1948. He expresses his interest in Rosenberger's book Virginia Reader , especially because Anne Spencer is included in the table of contents. Hughes also furnishes information on his Virginia family connections, "My own grandparents on my mother's side came from Louisa County, Virginia -- that is, my grandfather, Charles Langston, and grand-uncle, John Mercer Langston (1829-1897), who was a reconstruction congressman and published a book which I have called, From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol , as well as a volume of his speeches under the title, Freedom and Citizenship , brought out when he was U.S. Minister Resident of Haiti. He was also the first president , I believe, of the Virginia State College for Negroes at Petersburg. Both he and my grandfather were sons of a white planter by a slave woman, and in the course of my travels in recent years I have come across one or two relatives 'on the white side.'"