Charles W. Chesnutt to Horace Traubel, 29 December 1915
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CHAS W. CHESNUTT
1105 WILLIAMSON BUILDING
CLEVELAND O
Ent'danw'd[?] Dec. 29, 1915 Dear Friend Traubel:—
The receipt of your Birthday Card, for which please accept my thanks,1 reminds me that I owe you a dollar, which please find enclosed.2
With the compliments of the season, Yours sincerely, 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. Chesnutt's birthday was June 20, 1858. Several other birthdays and anniversaries in the family also fell in June (see Helen Chesnutt, Charles Waddell Chesnutt: Pioneer of the Color Line [Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1952], 263, 302), followed by summer vacations in July and August; as a result, Chesnutt's replies to summer mail were often delayed. [back]
2. Chesnutt subscribed to Traubel's Conservator, which cost $1.00 per year. [back]
