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Charles W. Chesnutt to Albert Johannsen, 29 December 1923

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  • Source Text: Charles W. Chesnutt to Albert Johannsen, 29 December 1923, Charles Waddell Chesnutt Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society, MS 3370, box 1, folder 3.
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  December 29, 1923 Professor Albert Johannsen, The University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois. Dear Sir:

I find on my desk a letter dated a year ago in which you ask me for my autograph. The letter was misplaced, and I never answered it. I take pleasure in sending you herewith a card which contains my autograph, and which may answer your purpose.

With best wishes for the New Year, I remain,

Yours with apologies, CWC:W Enc:


Correspondent: Albert Johannsen (1871–1962) was a White Iowa-born geologist who specialized in microscopal petrography. He worked for the U.S. Geological Survey (1903–1925) and taught at the University of Chicago (1909–1937). He was also a photographer, collected autographs, dime novels, and first editions of Charles Dickens, and, after his retirement, published a multi-volume guide to dime novels and a book on an early Dickens illustrator.



  • Cite (Chicago style): Charles W. Chesnutt, "Charles W. Chesnutt to Albert Johannsen, 29 December 1923," The Charles W. Chesnutt Archive, Gen. Ed. Stephanie P. Browner, Matt Cohen, and Kenneth M. Price, accessed December 5, 2025. https://chesnuttarchive.org/item/ccda.corr01704.
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