Sharpless Dobson Green to Charles W. Chesnutt, 11 September 1922
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DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS INSTRUCTION
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
TRENTON, NEW JERSEY
S. D. GREEN
September 11, 1922
Charles W. Chestnutt, Esq.
Cleveland, Ohio
Dear Sir:
There are about four hundred young men and young women training for business under my supervision in the Senior High School of this city; will you kindly send me a little letter that will be an inspiration to them in their work now and aid them in being better citizens in the business world for which they are fitting themselves?
I shall very greatly appreciate your courtesy in this respect.
Very truly yours, S. D. GreenCorrespondent: Sharpless Dobson Green (1877–1952) was a White high-school teacher from Pennsylvania. He taught business classes off and on at Trenton Senior High School in the 1910s and 1920s, but primarily taught in Pennsylvania schools. In the early 1920s, he reached out to a number of public figures, asking them to write inspirational messages to his students. Some of these were published in a book, Letters from Famous People, ed. Sharpless Dobson Green (New York: Gregg Publishing, 1925), but the letter Chesnutt wrote to Green is not included in the anthology.
