Charles W. Chesnutt to Houghton Mifflin Company, 2 September 1922
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September 2, 1922.
Messrs. Houghton-Mifflin Company,
4 Park Street,
Boston, Mass.
Dear Sirs:
I beg to acknowledge receipt of royalty statement dated August 31st, for the preceding year, accompanied by your check for $16.12 to balance.
Yours very truly, CWC/FLCorrespondent: Houghton Mifflin Company had its roots in Ticknor and Fields, a notable publishing house founded in 1832 in Boston, Massachusetts. By 1880, Houghton, Mifflin & Company (later incorporated as Houghton Mifflin Company) had become a major force in U.S. publishing, a position strengthened when it began to publish textbooks in the 1890s. The firm published both of Chesnutt's short story collections and two of his three novels, and as publishers of the Atlantic Monthly, several of his individual short stories. Chesnutt corresponded with the company from 1891 to 1931, often but not always with specific employees.
