Charles W. Chesnutt to Horace Traubel, 25 March 1902
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CHAS. W. CHESNUTT,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
1005 WILLIAMSON BUILDING.
CLEVELAND, O. March 25, 1902.
Mr. Horace Traubel,
Editor "The Conservator,"
Philadelphia.
My dear Mr. Traubel;—
Permit me to thank you very cordially for the warmly appreciative mention of myself and my writings, especially "The Wife of His Youth," in the February number of your excellent magazine "The Conservator," of which you were good enough to send me several copies.1 My thanks are also due for the equally friendly notice of "The Marrow of Tradition", in a former number of The Conservator, signed I think by the initials "A.M.," which I take to be those of your Associate Editor Miss (?) Montgomerie.2 The writer who tries to treat these difficult themes in any other than a sensational way may not hope to number his readers by the hundreds of thousands, but he can find a large reward in the appreciation of discerning souls. This has not been denied me, and of it what you have said constitutes a very valuable part.
Cordially yours, Chas. W. Chesnutt.Correspondent: Horace Traubel (1858–1919) was an American poet, essayist, and editor of The Conservator, a journal designed to promote Walt Whitman's works and reputation. Traubel was also a dedicated Socialist and one of the founders of the socialist weekly newspaper The Worker. He is best known for being Walt Whitman's literary executor and author of a nine-volume biography of Whitman's final four years (1888–1892), entitled With Walt Whitman in Camden.
1. The review, signed "T.", calls Chesnutt "a poet" and praises The Wife of His Youth. [back]
2. Anne Montgomerie Traubel was the wife of Horace Traubel. She was involved in her husband's work, aiding him in collecting and organizing Walt Whitman's papers and serving as associate editor of The Conservator. [back]
