George B. Cortelyou to Charles W. Chesnutt, 27 November 1901
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WHITE HOUSE,
WASHINGTON.
November 27, 1901.
My dear Sir:
The President is in receipt of your recent favor and requests me to thank you for your courtesy in sending him a copy of the book to which you refer.1
Very truly yours, George B. Cortelyou Secretary to the President. Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt, 1005 Williamson Building, Cleveland, Ohio.Correspondent: George Bruce Cortelyou (1862–1940) served as secretary to Presidents Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt, before being named the first secretary of the newly formed Department of Commerce and Labor in 1903. He would go on to become chairman of the Republican National Committee and manage Roosevelt's successful presidential campaign in 1904. He served as U. S. Postmaster General from 1905 to 1907 and later became Secretary of the Treasury.
1. Chesnutt had written to President Theodore Roosevelt on November 25, 1901, sending him a copy of The Marrow Tradition. In a letter to Booker T. Washington that same day, Chesnutt wrote that he was "very anxious that the President should read my book." Chesnutt also sent copies of the book to several other politicians who he thought might be sympathetic to the cause of Black voting rights (see Frances Richardson Keller, An American Crusade: The Life of Charles Waddell Chesnutt [Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1978], 212–213). [back]
