Charles W. Chesnutt to Horace Traubel, 24 October 1907 Stephanie Browner Kenneth M. Price Matt Cohen Transcription, encoding, annotation Stewart, Ashlyn Gilmore, Samantha Matheis, Caitlin S. Weakly, Laura K. McMullen, Kevin Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln The New School 2022 The Charles W. Chesnutt Archive
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 Charles W. Chesnutt to Horace Traubel, 24 October 1907 October 24, 1907 Transcription derived from scan of photocopied original. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress Horace Traubel and Anne Montgomerie Traubel Papers MSS43141 58 Correspondence Whitman, Walt Colonel's Dream autograph letter signed Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell) Cleveland, Ohio Traubel, Horace Unknown Laura K. Weaklycommented out prev/next links to unpublished letters Kevin McMullencorrected, proofed Laura K. Weaklyproofed Samantha Gilmoreadded correspondent ref Samantha Gilmoreadded source text code in header Samantha Gilmoreadded keywords and ptrs Samantha Gilmorerevised annotations Caitlin Matheisproofed Caitlin Matheisproofed Samantha Gilmoreannotated Ashlyn Stewarttranscribed, encoded letter
CHAS. W. CHESNUTT 1105 WILLIAMSON BUILDING CLEVELAND, O.
October 24, 1907 My dear friend Traubel—

Yours of Oct. 10th is before me. I ought to have sent you that book—meant to have sent it—thought I had sent it. I gladly enclose the autograph for it.

I can only thank you for the kind things you have said, in your letter & from time to time in the Conservator, about my books. They are an inspiration such as comes only from one who reads with sympathy & the inner visions.

I have been following your Whitman writings. You are a loyal friend, a sound critic, and entirely able to sustain your end of any controversy about Whitman—a great poet, touching deep chords of thought & feeling—whose fame will continue to grow greater with the years.

Fraternally, Chas. W. Chesnutt.