Charles W. Chesnutt to Small, Maynard & Company, 9 March 1922
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March 9, 1922.
Messrs. Small, Maynard and Company,
15 Beacon Street,
Boston, Mass.
Gentlemen:
Please send me four copies of my "Life of Frederick Douglass,"1 in the Beacon Series of American Biographies, in cloth binding, with a bill, and I will remit for same promptly.
Yours very truly, CWC/FLCorrespondent: Small, Maynard & Company was the publisher of Chesnutt's biography of Frederick Douglass (1899). Following the departure of co-founder Herbert Small (1869–1903) in 1900, the company was purchased by the Massachusetts financier and publisher Norman H. White (1871–1951) in 1907. By 1927, the company filed for bankrupcy, and White was found guilty of grand larceny in connection with the company's failure.
1. Chesnutt's biography Frederick Douglass appeared in the Beacon Series of Biographies of Eminent Americans (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1899). It was the first biography after Douglass's death and the first written by an African American. [back]
