Charles W. Chesnutt to Booker T. Washington, 11 July 1907 Charles W. Chesnutt Stephanie Browner Kenneth M. Price Matt Cohen Transcription, encoding, proofing, annotations Swift, Bianca Matheis, Caitlin Anderson, Antje Weakly, Laura K. 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 Archive
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 Charles W. Chesnutt to Booker T. Washington, 11 July 1907 July 11, 1907 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 Brascher, Nahum Daniel Washington, D.C. Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell) Cleveland, Ohio Washington, Booker T. Tuskegee, Alabama Unknown Laura K. Weaklycommented out links to unpublished prev/next Laura K. Weaklyproofeded Antje Andersonannotated Caitlin Matheisproofed Bianca Swifttranscribed and encoded Bianca SwiftProofing Bianca Swiftupdated Transcribing and encoding
CHAS. W. CHESNUTT 1105 WILLIAMSON BUILDING CLEVELAND, O.
July 11, 1907.
Dr. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Ala.
My dear Dr. Washington:-

I write you this letter at the request of Mr. Nahum D. Brascher of this city. Mr. Brascher has for several years edited the Cleveland Journal, published in the interests of the colored people. The Journal, while always a consistent advocate of ‸the rights & interests of the race, has always been conservative in its tone, and has never indulged in any intemperate criticism of your policies or utterances. On the contrary, Mr. Brascher has been one of your ardent supporters and holds you in the highest esteem.

This is of course but the prologue. Mr. Brascher's physician has advised him that a less rigorous climate than that of Cleveland would be of benefit to his health. His newspaper too, I think, is not especially prosperous. He would like if possible to secure an appointment, some time before the end of the year, to some position in the Congressional Library at Washington, and he has requested me to write and ask you if he might command your support and interest in this matter. Mr. Brascher is a young man of irreproachable character, ambitious for the best things, and entirely worthy of any sympathy or encouragement‸ or interest which you can in any way extend him.

Trusting you are well and that I may have the pleasure of seeing you during a visit I shall make to New York within a few weeks, I remain

Sincerely yours, Chas. W. Chesnutt