Charles W. Chesnutt to John Patterson Green, 16 October 1931
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October 16, 1931
Honorable John P. Green,
614 East 107th Street,
Cleveland, Ohio.
My dear John:
I do not know whether I ever spoke to you about it or not or whether I had seen it before, but I picked up from the papers which had accumulated on my desk during my recent illness, a copy of the Cleveland Bar Association Journal. My eyes fell first on the very handsome portrait of yourself which adorns the outside page, and next on the very fine appreciation of your public services in the first column of the reading matter.1
It is a worthy recognition of a worthy career which I hope may continue for a long time to come.
We all hope you are recovering from your recent accident and will be around as actively as usual in your professional pursuits before very long.2 The family all join me in these good wishes, and I remain,
Sincerely yours, CWC:LKCorrespondent: John Patterson Green (1845-1940) was Chesnutt's cousin and an attorney, active Republican, and the first Black to be elected Cleveland's justice of the peace (1873–1882). He served in the Ohio House of Representatives (1881–1883; 1889–1891), the Senate (1891–1893), and in Washington D.C. as U.S. Postage Stamp Agent (1897–1906). Green was also the author of Recollections of the Inhabitants, Localities, Superstitions and Kuklux Outrages of the Carolinas (1880).
1. The Cleveland Bar Association Journal, 5.1 (September 1931) featured Green on the cover and included a tribute by the legal profession to "Hon. John P Green," then 86, who had served as a Cleveland attorney and politician since the 1870s (p.3). [back]
2. John P. Green had been injured in an automobile accident on August 17, 1931. See his letter in answer to Chesnutt from October 21, 1932. [back]
