Letter to Mr. Carroll Wilson from Countee Cullen

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Countee Cullen was an American poet and editor who was a leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance. In 1923, he won second prize in the Witter Bynner undergraduate poetry contest, which was sponsored by the Poetry Society of America, with a poem entitled The Ballad of the Brown Girl. In 1925, Cullen won first place in the contest and graduated from New York University. He was accepted into the master’s program at Harvard and published his first volume of poetry titled Color. Two years later, he published two works, Copper Sun and The Ballad of the Brown Girl. In 1928, he was awarded the Guggenheim fellowship to write poetry in France. During this tenure he published The Black Christ and Other Poems. Help us transcribe this 1928 letter from Countee Cullen to Carroll Wilson, a trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, regarding a set of books and fellowship application submitted to the Foundation.

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