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Letter to Harold Courlander from Frederic Ridgely Torrance

March 18, 1939

Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, North and Central America

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Typed letter on "The Neighborhood Association" letterhead addressed to Harold Courlander from Ridgely Torrance, the Director of Study of the Negro Theatre in American Drama at the Rockefeller Foundation regarding the Foundation's interest in a study of Negro play material and the Karamu Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio. Torrance inquires about plays by Courlander in addition to his play "Swamp Mud" which was performed at Karamu.

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Catalog reference: 2011.84.2

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