William T. Couch to Charles W. Chesnutt, 30 March 1931
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THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS • CHAPEL HILL
March 30, 1931
Mr. Chas. W. Chesnutt,
9719 Lamont Ave., N. E.,
Cleveland, Ohio.
Dear Mr. Chesnutt:
We take pleasure in sending you under separate cover a copy of STORIES OF THE SOUTH, edited by Addison Hibbard.1 Please accept the volume with our compliments.
We appreciate very much your having given Mr. Hibbard permission to reprint in this volume your story, "Sis' Becky's Pickaninny," and we wish to take this opportunity to express our thanks.2
Sincerely yours, W. T. Couch The University of North Carolina Press WTC:S LOUIS R. WILSON, Director W. T. COUCH, Assistant DirectorCorrespondent: William Terry Couch (1901–1988), an alumnus of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, was an academic editor, and became assistant director and then director (1932–1945) at the University of North Carolina Press. He later became an editor at the University of Chicago Press and Colliers' Encyclopedia.
1. Stories of the South: Old and New was a 1931 anthology of 27 stories edited by Addison Hibbard (1887–1945), English professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (1918–1930) and later at Northwestern University (1930–1945) who specialized in Southern U.S. literature. [back]
2. Chesnutt's story "Sis' Becky's Pickaninny" was first published in The Conjure Woman in 1899; it was included as the fourteenth story in Stories of the South: Old and New (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1931), 294–308. [back]
