Hughes, Carrie, -1938

found: Hughes, Carrie, -1938. My dear boy, 2103:CIP t.p. (Carrie Hughes) pref. (Carolyn "Carrie" Hughes Clark--mother of the renowned poet, fiction writer, playwright, and essayist Langston Hughes; 1938 . . . She died June 3 in New York City) galley ("Coda: Langston moved her into his newly leased Harlem apartment in March 1938. She collapsed for the last time on Friday, June 3, at around four in the morning. At age sixty-five, the cancer that had consumed her body took her life. She died at Deaconess Hospital in Manhattan")

found: Wikipedia 2013-03-18:(Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, the second child of school teacher Carrie (Caroline) Mercer Langston and James Nathaniel Hughes (1871-1934). . . . Hughes's father left his family and later divorced Carrie . . . . Later, Hughes lived again with his mother Carrie in Lincoln, Illinois. She had remarried when he was still an adolescent . . . )