Charles W. Chesnutt to David Gibson, 16 October 1931
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October 16, 1931
David Gibson, Esq.,
13318 Graham Road,
East Cleveland, Ohio.
My dear David:
I see from "the public prints" that you have returned from "furrin" parts to "God's country", and I imagine from what you were quoted as saying that you enjoyed your trip.1
My family and I congratulate you heartily on your safe return and hope to see you soon.
Cordially yours, CWC:LKCorrespondent: David Gibson (1871–1945) was a White journalist, columnist, and publisher who, along with his wife Mary Rich Gibson (1870–1952), was a longtime friend of the Chesnutts. Originally from Indiana, he came to Cleveland in 1903, where he founded a publishing and printing business and started several journals; by the 1920s, he was also involved in local public affairs. The Gibsons stayed with Chesnutt when his wife and daughters Dorothy and Susan spent the summer of 1906 in Europe. See Helen Chesnutt, Charles Waddell Chesnutt: Pioneer of the Color Line (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1952), 220–221.
1. David Gibson had spent three months in Europe in the summer of 1931. Chesnutt would have read in the papers that he had just returned. Gibson thought that Europe and the United States were "a great deal closer than they think they are" and described the English as "probably the most orderly people in the world" ("Gibson Back; Sees Hands Across Sea," Cleveland Plain Dealer, Sunday, October 11, 1931, p. 12). [back]
