Charles F. Thwing to Charles W. Chesnutt, 21 November 1901
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PRESIDENT'S ROOM
WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
ADELBERT COLLEGE
CLEVELAND
21 November 1901
My dear Mr. Chesnutt:—
Let me thank you in a more formal way than the telephone allows for your gracious acceptance of my most informal invitation to speak to us. We are anticipating your presence with much pleasure the morning of next Monday. The hour is 9:10. If you can be in my office at nine o'clock, we shall have a chance to talk together. In reference to subject, follow your own pleasure. Time and eternity, sin and righteousness may represent your limits!1
With warm esteem, I am, Ever yours, Chas F. Thwing Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt.Correspondent: Charles Franklin Thwing (1853–1937) was a White author, clergyman, and academic from Maine who was president of Adelbert College and Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1891 to 1921. During this time, he significantly expanded the university. Chesnutt had many ties to Western Reserve University, which had admitted Black students since the 1830s and women (with some restrictions) since 1872, and he knew Thwing personally.
1. Chesnutt spoke to the students of Western Reserve University's Adelbert College on Monday, November 25, 1901, at the invitation of university President Charles Thwing (1852–1937), who introduced him. The topic of the lecture was key elements of the novel ("The Successful Novel," Cleveland Plain Dealer [November 26, 1901]: 6). [back]
