Charles W. Chesnutt to Albert Johannsen, 29 December 1923
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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:WCorrespondent: 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.