Charles W. Chesnutt to George Washington Cable, 23 May 1890 Charles W. Chesnutt Stephanie Browner Kenneth M. Price Matt Cohen Transcription, encoding Swift, Bianca Matheis, Caitlin S. Gilmore, Samantha Weakly, Laura K. Barney, Brett Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln The New School 2022 The Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive
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 Charles W. Chesnutt to George Washington Cable, 23 May 1890 May 23, 1890 Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University George Washington Cable Papers LaRC-2 17 9 Correspondence Edwards, Harry S. Gilder, Richard W. Cleveland, Ohio Northampton, Massachusetts House Behind the Cedars typed letter signed Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell) Cleveland, Ohio Cable, George Washington Northampton, Massachusetts Brett Barney made corrections based on Matt's proofreading Laura K. Weaklyproofed Samantha Gilmoreadded correspondent ref Samantha Gilmoreadded source text code in header Samantha Gilmoreadded keywords and ptrs Laura K. Weaklyproofed Samantha Gilmoreannotated Caitlin Matheisproofed Bianca Swifttranscribed and encoded
Chas. W. Chesnutt, 30 Blackstone Bld'g, Cleveland, O.
Cleveland, May 23rd, 1890. My dear Mr Cable:-

Thanks for your kind letter of May 9th. I enclose you a copy of the letter which I have written to the editor of "Family Fiction".

Thanks for your good wishes. My business has been very prosperous for the past eight or nine months, and if it continues in anything like its present condition, I shall be able in a very few years to take the chances of devoting myself entirely to literary work, which I earnestly hope to do; meanwhile I look forward to a little leisure for writing during the Summer.

I trust that your kind word in its favor, coupled with such merits as the story itself may possess, will help "Rena Walden" to run the gauntlet of editorial criticism and break into the charmed pages of the "Century".

May I retain the copy of Mr. Edwards' letter and Mr Gilder's note? If you wish to have them returned, may I take copies of them?

I have just received a circular, directed in a familiar handwriting, with the Northampton postmark, in reference to "HJustice and Jurisprudence". I have ordered the book, which I did not find at our leading bookstore, and look forward with some curiosity to reading it. I think I can guess who inspired it. Is one permitted to know anything further about the "Brotherhood of Liberty"? It is plain that in some form or other, under one name or another, the good work which has its fountainhead in a certain Northampton study goes bravely on. In the meantime some of your admirers are waiting patiently for your next novel, which from what you said to me when in Cleveland, we expect to find not without some bearing upon the question that "Justice and Jurisprudence" deals with.

Sincerely yours, Chas. W. Chesnutt.
G.W. Cable, Esq. Northampton Mass.