May 19 1969

Prof. Arthur P. Dudden,Chairman
Dept of History
Bryn Mawr College,Pa.

Dear Arthur:
I enjoyed the recent visit to your
Campus. As per our conversation I enclose certain
information and requests.

For the Library:
The 45 volumes in THE AMERICAN NEGRO: HIS HISTORY
AND LITERATURE, published by The Arno Press-N.Y.TIMES
330 Madison Avenue NYC 10017. (The entire set is
priced at $603;there is a special library price, I
believe,however, coming to less than $500.)

I also highly recommend that the library purchase
the set of 23 volumes in The Basic Afro-American
print Library, published by Johnson Reprint Corp.
111 Fifth Avenue NYC 10003 and costing $250 for the
set. This does not duplicate the first named

The Library also should get: P.S.Foner,ed.,
THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS,in 4
vols., International Publishers,381 Park Ave S NYC 10016;
Du Bois, THE WORLD & AFRICA(1965 edition) from same
publisher, and Du Bois' AUTOBIOGRAPHY(N.Y.,1968,same
publisher). The Library also should get the following
books by me which it does not now have: ESSAYS IN THE
HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO; and TO BE FREE: STUDIES
IN AFRO AMERICAN HISTORY, both published by International
and also THE COLONIAL ERA and THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
also by International. From Humanities Press should be
ordered for the Library, ONE CONTINUAL CRY: DAVID
WALKER’S APPEAL(1829) and NAT TURNER'S SLAVE REBELLION.
Address of Humanities Press is 303 Park Ave S NYC 10010.
Also from Humanities Press, a book by Otto H. Olsen,
PLESSY V FERGUSON:TURNING POINT IN NEGRO HISTORY.

For the College Bookstore: We agreed,as I recall, on
initial order of 50—all paperback:
Aptheker, DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF NEGRO PEOPLE IN THE
UNITED STATES, Vols.I and II,Citadel Press, 222 Park
Ave S. NYC 10003; AMERICAN NEGRO SLAVE REVOLTS, Inter-
national Publishers,381 Park Ave S NYC 10016; ESSAYS
IN HISTORY OF AMERICAN NEGRO,same publisher; TO BE FREE:
STUDIES IN AFRO AMERICAN HISTORY,also International; AND
WHY NOT EVERY MAN?THE STORY OF THE FIGHT AGAINST SLAVERY
IN THE U.S. (to be published in Fall 1969,International);
and Du Bois' AUTOBIOGRAPHY (in paper,1969,International)
and F.B.Barbour,ed., THE BLACK POWER REVOLT, Porter
Sargent,Publisher,11 Beacon St Boston Mass 02108.

Cordially,
H Aptheker