Minnie E. Jones to Charles W. Chesnutt, 21 December 1922
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[Denver, Colo. Dec. 21, 1922]
If I might have the Christmas wish I'd like the very best I'd wish that someway I might see My friends who, east and west Are scattered up and down the world The friends I love to say And know are mine, and may have thought Of me, at Christmas time.[illustration]
Correspondent: Minnie E. Bothwell Jones (1865–1941) was a White woman born in Ohio. In 1886, she married Frederic C. Jones (1865–1939), a pharmacist who later ran an insurance agency. They had one daughter, Grace E. Jones (1887–1967), who became a public school teacher and remained single. The family's connection to the Chesnutts was likely through Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Cleveland. By the census of 1900 the Joneses had moved from Ohio to Denver, Colorado.
1. While her Christmas-card poem could not be further dated, the author is most likely Lillian Ritchie (1887–1969), a White woman from Minneapolis, Minnesota, who graduated from Wells College in 1911 and was later a graduate student at Radcliffe College and a member of its poetry club (1917–1918). She lived in the Boston, Massachusetts, area after being deployed overseas in the YMCA canteen service during World War I. [back]
