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                        <addrLine>EDITORIAL ROOMS OF </addrLine>
                        <addrLine>THE CRISIS<ref target="n.his00038"/></addrLine>
                        <addrLine>69 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, N.Y.</addrLine>
                        
                        <addrLine>NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE</addrLine>
                        <addrLine>W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS</addrLine>
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                    <dateline><date when="1924-12-24">December 24, 1924</date></dateline>
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                    <salute>My dear Mr. Chesnutt:</salute>
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                <p>We have received with great delight the story which you kindly sent us.<ref target="n.lit00585"/> I hope you will let us announce not only this story but at least two others during 1925. I am sure the public is eager to read something of yours again and I know that you have a great deal put away which ought to be published.<ref target="n.lit00588"/></p>
                
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                    <salute>Very sincerely yours,</salute>
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