Charles W. Chesnutt to John Patterson Green, 7 December 1897 Charles W. Chesnutt Stephanie Browner Kenneth M. Price Matt Cohen Transcription, encoding, annotations Swift, Bianca Stewart, Ashlyn Barney, Brett Anderson, Antje McMullen, Kevin Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln The New School University of Nebraska-Lincoln UCARE Program 2018 The Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities 319 Love Library University of Nebraska-Lincoln P.O. Box 884100 Lincoln, NE 68588-4100
ccda.corr00001 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

The base text of the original item is in the public domain. The text encoding and editorial notes were created and/or prepared by the Charles W. Chesnutt Archive and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Any reuse of the material should credit the Charles W. Chesnutt Archive.

 Charles W. Chesnutt Charles Chesnutt to John Patterson Green, 7 December 1897 December 7, 1897 Western Reserve Historical Society John Patterson Green Papers MS 3380 4 1-4 Correspondence Negro Protective Party Blanche Kelso Bruce Charles W. Chesnutt John Patterson Green Harry C. Smith Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland Gazette SalammbÔ Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell) Green, John Patterson Unknown Kevin McMullenfixed date error in title Kevin McMullentweaked some encoding stuff (removed remnants of old encoding methods) Antje Andersonadditional annotations, further corrections Brett Barney updated schema declaration; corrected image reference; added letterhead and dateline; fixed encoding of signature Ashlyb Stewartannotations Bianca SwiftTranscribing encoding Bianca SwiftTranscribing encoding
CHAS. W. CHESNUTT, 1024 SOCIETY FOR SAVINGS BLDG.
Cleveland, O. December 7th, 1897
Hon.John P.Green, Washington, D.C.
My dear John:-

I received your letter of several days ago and was very glad to hear from you. Sorry to hear that Mrs. Green is not as well as she might be, but have no doubt that she will become acclimated in due time.

I see that your friend Mr. Bruce got the persimmon—I presume because he had the longest pole, or the strongest pull. I have no doubt that he owes something to you in that connection, and I hope that he will show himself properly appreciative of your efforts in his behalf. I met H.C.Smith on the street the other day. He said that the appointment was the worst one from the point of practical politics that could possibly have been made. He went on to say that the methods by which Bruce had secured his appointment and by which you had secured yours were altogether wrong— I violate no confidence in saying this because it was all repeated in the issue of his paper the next day. I smiled and said that your methods and Mr. Bruce's had been successful, and if they had enabled you to get what you wanted I really did not see how they could have been improved upon "practically." Poor Smith is neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, and from present indications, he will ere long have difficulty in making any number of people believe that he is. The Negro Protective Party I understand polled about 400 votes out of 40,000; I should think that would discourage even Smith.

We miss you and Mrs. Green from our social gatherings, but we trust you are enjoying yourself. I see that you are getting to the meat of "Sambo"; you will find it interesting, and easy French. I see your son William around almost everywhere.

Mrs. Chesnutt joins me in regards to yourself and Mrs. Green. We hope to see you occasionally and hear from you often. Wishing you both a Merry Christmas, I remain,

Sincerely yours, Chas. W. Chesnutt.