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Charles W. Chesnutt to Horace Traubel, 29 December 1915

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  CHAS W. CHESNUTT 1105 WILLIAMSON BUILDING CLEVELAND O Ent'd

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Dear Friend Traubel:—

The receipt of your Birthday Card, for which please accept my thanks, reminds me that I owe you a dollar, which please find enclosed.

With the compliments of the season, Yours sincerely, Chas. W. Chesnutt.



Correspondent: Horace Traubel (1858–1919) was an American poet, essayist, and author. 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 Walt Whitman in Camden.