Charles W. Chesnutt to Horace Traubel, 3 July 1903
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CHAS. W. CHESNUTT
1005 WILLIAMSON BUILDING.
CLEVELAND, O.
Cleveland, July 3, 1903.
Horace Traubel, Esq.,
Camden, N .J.
My dear Mr. Traubel:
Thank you very much for your kindly characterization of my work in The Conservator in June.1 Appreciation of this sort is very encouraging. If present tendencies continue much longer, the colored people of this nation are likely to need friends and it is quite clear that they can count you among them.
Cordially yours, Chas. W. ChesnuttCorrespondent: 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. Between 1901 and 1907, Horace Traubel discussed Chesnutt's writing several times in The Conservator, a monthly magazine he founded and edited for nearly 30 years (1890–1919). See "The Emancipation of a Race" (12, no. 10 [December 1901]: 154–155) and reviews of The Wife of His Youth (12, no. 12 [February 1902]: 188), The Marrow of Tradition (13, no. 3 [May 1902]: 41–42), The Conjure Woman (13, no. 9 [November 1902]: 138–139), The House Behind the Cedars (14, no. 4 [June 1903]: 60), and The Colonel's Dream (18, no. 9 [November 1907]: 141). [back]
