But—had all the other characters in Nigger Heaven approximated Mary’s standard, the statue to Carl Van Vechten would be an actualized instead of a deferred possibility, and my prophecy would be gloriously fulfilled instead of being ignominiously belied.
Wallace Thurman.
Printed by JOSEPH LEVENTHAL, New York City
OPPORTUNITY
Journal of Negro Life
“On behalf of my publishers, I ask your formal permission to reprint the following story in The Best Short Stories of 1926: ‘Symphonesque,’ by Arthur Huff Fauset. Opportunity, June 1926.”
Edward J. O’Brien, London, England
Editor, Best Short Stories
“The brilliant Negro journal, Opportunity.”