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I am searching for material for a little primer for colored children. In an effort to trace the developments of the Negro and Negroid people from prehistoric times, I am getting some material together about Free Negroes in Antei-bellum days.
If I remember rightly your mother2 attended my great grandfather's school.3 In one of Bassett's monographs4 I found a page of material about John Stanley and his slaves and his accumulation of money but nothing about the school, so I wondered if you could give me any personal reminiscences which you may have heard from your mother. For instance, the size of the school, the names of any of the other pupils or their descendants now living, and if perchancge you ever heard where John Stanley received his education.
I would certainly appreciate an immediate reply as I am trying to finish the data on the Ante-bellum period now.
Give my love to Mrs. Chestnutt5, Helen6 and Dorothy.7
Very sincerely yours, Catharine D. Lealtad Assistant Director of Branches. CLD/ALB [2] BOARD OF DIRECTORS8Correspondent: Catharine Deaver Lealtad (1895–1989) was a Black physician and activist born in Cleveland to parents who moved to St. Paul, Minnesota after 1905 for her father's work as an Episcopal minister. She became the first Black student to graduate from Macalester College in 1915. She moved to New York City and worked for the YWCA on a special assignment relating to students of color, for the NAACP, and for the Urban League around 1920. She then attended medical school abroad and became a pediatrician working internationally for the U.S. Army after the end of World War II, and at Harlem's integrated Sydenham Hospital. Through her maternal grandmother, she was distantly related to John Patterson Green (1845–1940) and thus to the Chesnutts, and seems to have known them from childhood.