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HUGHES, LANGSTON. Seven Moments of Love.
Original Typed Manuscript, with holograph corrections in Hughes' hand. 7 pages, with an additional page bearing the typed title and an ink presentation, "With very best regards to Sevilla Fort - Sincerely, Langston Hughes, L.A., 1 2/1 9/40;" punch holes at side for a 2-ring binder; with the original mailing envelope addressed by Hughes to Ms. Fort. Los Angeles, 1940
- Notes: Seven Moments of Love was first printed in Esquire Magazine in May 1940. It was then collected in Hughes' Shakespeare in Harlem in 1942. The poem is written in what Hughes referred to as "an unsonnet sequence in blues." Hughes wrote to his friend and literary agent Maxim Lieber, that poems in this style would make "a light and amusing book... a marvelous and grand HEY HEY cullud and colorful book." Sevilla Fort, the recipient of this manuscript, was a key member of the Katherine Dunham dance group in Stormy Weather (1943). After the War, she ran the Dunham School. It is possible that Fort was considering a dance routine around this "unsonnet sequence in blues."
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