The French Negro students in Paris rely on my lending library to keep them in touch, as much as possible, with American Negro literature…
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The French Negro students in Paris rely on my lending library to keep them in touch, as much as possible, with American Negro literature. I have a number of very interesting books by the poets and novelists, and studies on the subject of the problems of the American Negro, but no as many as I should like and would purchase if I had the funds for it. Unfortunately my little shop is going through a crisis just now, and would have gone under if it had not been for the help of friends. Pardon me for telling you this, but it is to explain why I have to make a very careful selection of only the most essential books, and to ask you to help me by suggesting a few representative ones that my library should possess.
Sylvia Beach, to The Friendship Press
Notes:
• From The Letters of Sylvia Beach
• Sylvia Beach was an American who founded the original Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris. She also published Ulysses by James Joyce.
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