Charles W. Chesnutt to The Cleveland Call, 12 November 1921
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November 12, 1921.
The Cleveland Call Publishing Co.,
5204 Harlem Ave., N. E.,
City.
Gentlemen:
I enclose my check for $2.00, for which please send The Call for one year to Mrs. Chas. W. Chesnutt, 9719 Lamont Avenue, City,1 and oblige.
Yours very truly,Correspondent: The Cleveland Call was a Black Cleveland weekly newspaper founded in 1920 by Cleveland inventor and businessman Garrett A. Morgan (1877[?]–1963), which merged with another paper to become the Cleveland Call and Post in 1927. The Cleveland Call did not have a large distribution and the Cleveland Gazette remained the dominant Black weekly. Chesnutt subscribed from November 1921 to July 1922.
1. After relocating to Cleveland in 1884, Chesnutt's family lived in a series of rental houses (on Wilcutt Avenue, Ashland Avenue, and Florence Street), and then built a home to Chesnutt's plans at 64 Brenton Street, where they lived from May 1889 until May 1904. At that time, he purchased the house at 9719 Lamont Avenue, which continued to be owned by the Chesnutt family after his death in 1932 (see Helen Chesnutt, Charles Waddell Chesnutt: Pioneer of the Color Line [Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1952], 37–39, 48 and 184–185). [back]
