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I send you herewith last batch of the body of the Douglass Biog.1 I have chopped it up some, but only as I thought I could improve it; sometimes a sentence has an insidious way of seeming to be right when it will not stand analysis. I have been a little bit particular, for I want these first books of mine to be as good as I can make —though I do not mean to slight any later ones—I shall go to work on the preface, Chronology & Bibliography and will forward them tomorrow or next day.
Sincerely yours, Chas. W. Chesnutt. M. A. De Wolfe Howe, Esq., Boston, Mass.Correspondent: M. A. (Mark Antony) De Wolfe Howe (1864–1960) was a biographer, editor, historian, and poet. He held editorial positions on the Youth's Companion (1888-1893, 1899-1913), Atlantic Monthly (1893-1895), Harvard Alumni Bulletin (1913-1919), and Harvard Graduates' Magazine (1917-1918). Chesnutt's Life of Frederick Douglass was published in the series of Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans, edited by Howe.