Charles W. Chesnutt to Harry J. Warwick, 6 September 1932
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September 6, 1932
Mr. Harry J. Warwick,
320 West 139th Street,
New York City.
My dear Mr. Warwick:
I have returned to my office from my vacation in Michigan, and will be very glad to autograph such books of mine as you may send to me for that purpose.1
Sincerely yours, CWC:MKCorrespondent: Harry J. Warwick (life dates unknown) was a self-professed collector of books by Black authors who approached Chesnutt to get books autographed. He and a friend, Floyd Miller, who has not been further identified, apparently collected books together. It is not known whether their books were eventually donated to an HBCU, as Warwick's first letter to Chesnutt suggested they would be.
1. After discovering it in 1921, the Chesnutts spent every summer in Idlewild, in Lake County, MI, about 380 miles west of Cleveland. Idlewild was a popular lakeside resort for hundreds of Black families from the urban Midwest from the 1910s to the 1960s, when racism excluded them from many White resort towns. In the spring of 1924, Chesnutt purchased a plot of land, and had a lakeside vacation home built (14240 Lake Drive; completed in 1926). [back]
