Charles W. Chesnutt to Booker T. Washington, 22 November 1907 Charles W. Chesnutt Stephanie Browner Kenneth M. Price Matt Cohen Transcription, encoding, proofing, annotating Swift, Bianca Matheis, Caitlin S. Anderson, Antje Weakly, Laura K. Barney, Brett 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, 22 November 1907 November 22, 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 Carnegie, Andrew Cox, Julius Robert Douglass, Frederick Browne, Hugh M. Edinburgh, Scotland (UK) Georgia (US State) Maryland Oklahoma Frederick Douglass typed letter signed Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell) Cleveland, Ohio Washington, Booker T. Tuskegee, Alabama Unknown Unknown Brett Barney instituted Stephanie's proofing corrections; corrected last two note refs Laura K. Weaklyproofed Antje Andersonannotated Caitlin Matheisproofed Bianca Swiftupdated Transcribing and encoding Bianca Swifttranscribed and encoded
CHAS. W. CHESNUTT 1105 WILLIAMSON BUILDING CLEVELAND, O.
Told him you w'd reply first chance: 11/26: Cleveland, Ohio, November 22, 1907.
Dr. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Ala.
My Dear Dr. Washington:-

I wish to thank you, somewhat tardily, for the copy of your "Life of Frederick Douglass," that you were good enough to ✓ send me. It is a very well written and readable volume, although the Bibliography did omit to mention my little volume ✓ upon the same subject, in the Beacon Series of American Biographies, doubtless an oversight.

I was deeply grieved to learn only a day or two ago of the death of Mr. Cox, who, I imagine, was a very useful man, whom you will find it difficult to replace. If you have it in mind, kindly extend my sympathy to Mrs. Cox when you see her.

Professor Browne sent me the other day a copy of Mr. Carnegie's Edinburgh address, requesting my views upon it. It is worthy of all commendation, except that I do not agree with ✓ him, or with you, if you are correctly quoted, that it is the ✓ "wiser course" to let the ballot for the Negro go, substantially, by default. We may not be able to successfully resist the current of events, but it seems to me that our self-respect demands an attitude ‸of protest against steadily progressing disfranchisement and consequent denial of civil rights, rather than one of acquiescence. Georgia is gone, Oklahoma and Maryland will

CHAS. W. CHESNUTT 1105 WILLIAMSON BUILDING CLEVELAND, O.
soon fall into line. I hope at least that Mason and Dixon's line will prove an impassable barrier.

But while I differ from you very earnestly and deeply on this point, I must congratulate you on having won over to such active friendship for the Negro, so able and influential a citizen of the world as Mr. Carnegie.

Sincerely yours, Chas. W. Chesnutt