Charles W. Chesnutt to Edwin Jackson Chesnutt, 24 November 1922
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November 24, 1922.
My dear Edwin:
Glad to know that you are coming home for Thanksgiving, and we will have a good, fat turkey with all the trimmings and will endeavor to make it pleasant for you.1 The rest of the family are all well, and am feeling pretty fit myself. Hope you are well and prospering.
Your affectionate father, CWC/FLCorrespondent: Edwin Jackson Chesnutt (1883—1939) was the third child of Charles and Susan Chesnutt. Born in North Carolina, he spent his childhood in Cleveland, Ohio, graduated from Harvard University in 1905, and decided not to remain abroad after an extended stay in France in 1906. Instead, he trained and worked as a stenographer, including at the Tuskegee Institute from 1910–1912. After obtaining a degree in dentistry at Northwestern University in 1917, he became a dentist in Chicago.
1. As Chesnutt wrote on November 22, 1922, to his brother-in-law Henry Clay Tyson, Edwin, who had moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1917, had not visited his family in Cleveland for two years, although they had seen him in Idlewild, Michigan, in late summer of 1922. [back]
