Charles W. Chesnutt to Booker T. Washington, 5 February 1906 Charles W. Chesnutt Stephanie Browner Kenneth M. Price Matt Cohen Transcription, encoding, and proofing Swift, Bianca Matheis, Caitlin Anderson, Antje Weakly, Laura K. McMullen, Kevin Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln The New School University of Nebraska-Lincoln UCARE Program 2022 The Charles W. Chesnutt Digital Archive
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 Charles W. Chesnutt to Booker T. Washington, 5 February 1906 February 5, 1906 Transcription derived from scan of microfilmed original. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress Booker T. Washington papers, 1853-1946 https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78044669 MSS44669 39 36 Chesnutt, Charles Waddell Correspondence Kline, Virgil T. Pope, Mary Kline typed letter signed Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell) Cleveland, Ohio Washington, Booker T. New York, New York Unknown Laura K. Weaklycommented out links to unpublished prev/next Kevin McMullen implemented Matt's corrections Laura K. Weaklyproofed Antje Andersonannotated Caitlin Matheisproofed Bianca Swiftupdated Transcribing and encoding Bianca SwiftTranscribing and encoding Bianca SwiftProofing
CHAS. W. CHESNUTT 1005 WILLIAMSON BUILDING CLEVELAND, O.

P.S. I mailed this letter to Tuskegee, but thinking you may be in New York, I send you this duplicate there.

C.W.C.

 Cleveland, February 5, 1906.
Dr. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Ala.
My dear Mr. Washington:-

Miss Mary Kline, the daughter of Mr. Virgil P. Kline, whom you know (I saw from the paper the other day that his salary as attorney for the Standard Oil is $50,000 a year), called at my office the other day to make a request of me, in fact two requests.

There is being erected in this city a large private school, the Hathaway-Brown school, and Miss Kline is one of a committee of the alumnae of the school who have agreed to raise the sum of $15,000 toward the new structure. The greater part of it they have already secured by subscriptions, but they wish to get the remainder by bringing out a special magazine, which they hope to issue about a month hence. There will be an edition of eight or ten thousand copies, and it will circulate among the best people in this and other communities.

Miss Kline's requests were these: first, (probably out of courtesy and in order to pave the way for her other request) that I should make a contribution to the proposed magazine, which I promised to do; second, whether I would write to you and ask if you would do the same. I know that you are a busy man, that your time is fully occupied, and that your words when you choose to put them on paper have a money value. But what could I do? I could only say that I would write to you and ask whether if you found time during the next few weeks, you could write something for Miss Kline's magazine. The subject is left entirely to yourself; she suggested that something about your school or about CHAS. W. CHESNUT1005 WILLIAMSON BUILDINGCLEVELAND, O. BTW-2 education would be entirely acceptable. It would give you an opportunity for a good ad in a quarter where it might be of service to your work, and it would confer a favor upon certain people who have the means to reciprocate.

Kindly let me know how you feel about this, whether you have the time or the inclination to do it, and oblige

Yours sincerely,