Walter Hines Page to Charles W. Chesnutt, 14 June 1907
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I shall take up your manuscript with a great deal of pleasure and let you hear at the earliest possible moment.1
With appreciation of your courtesy and with all good wishes,
Very sincerely yours, Walter H. Page Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt, 1105 Williamson Bldg., Cleveland, Ohio.Correspondent: Walter Hines Page (1855–1918) was a renowned journalist and editor who was born in North Carolina and rose to fame in the publishing worlds of Boston and New York. In 1895, he began working for Houghton, Mifflin & Company as literary editor, and eventually as editor-in-chief of their flagship magazine, the Atlantic Monthly. He left in 1899 and eventually founded his own publishing house with a partner, Frank Nelson Doubleday (1862–1934), named Doubleday, Page & Co. He was its vice president until 1913, when he became U.S. ambassador to Great Britain. Chesnutt and Page corresponded regularly from 1897 to 1905, but only sporadically afterwards.
1. The manuscript in question has not been identified, and further correspondence relating to it has not been located. In 1905, Doubleday, Page & Co. published the last book-length work published during Chesnutt's lifetime, The Colonel's Dream. [back]
