Charles W. Chesnutt to Albion W. Tourgée, 25 April 1896 Charles W. Chesnutt Stephanie Browner Kenneth M. Price Matt Cohen Transcription, encoding, and annotation Swift, Bianca Matheis, Caitlin S. Gilmore, Samantha Weakly, Laura K. McMullen, Kevin Barney, Brett 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 Albion W. Tourgée, 25 April 1896 April 25, 1896 Chautauqua County Historical Society The Albion W. Tourgee Papers 9218 Correspondence Joyce, James A. Smith, Harry C. typed letter signed Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell) Cleveland, Ohio Tourgée, Albion W. Mayville, New York Unknown Unknown Brett Barney put a note element around the word "over" Kevin McMullencorrected, proofed Laura K. Weaklyproofed Samantha Gilmoreadded correspondent ref Samantha Gilmoreadded source text code in header Samantha Gilmoreadded keywords and ptrs Samantha Gilmoreannotated Caitlin Matheisproofed Bianca Swifttranscribed and encoded 9128
CHAS. W. CHESNUTT, 7361024 SOCIETY FOR SAVINGS BLD'G.
Cleveland, O.April 25, 1896
Hon. A. W. Tourgee, Editor "Basis," Mayville, N.Y.
Dear Sir:-

Will you kindly look at the subscription list of the Basis or have some one do so, and see if I have given correctly the address of Mr. JAMES A. JOYCE, of this city, as a subscriber to the Basis? It should be No. 20 VAN NESS St., Cleveland O. If it is otherwise shown in your list, the mistake was doubtless mine in sending on the name. I hope the Basis is doing well.

Permit me as a citizen of this State, desirous of social order and good government, and also as one of those for whose benefit the work was in part at least undertaken, to thank you for your kind collaboration with our Mr. H. C. Smith in securing the passage through the State legislature of the anti-lynching bill. It can do no harm, and if it did no more than simply to express by the mouth of its legislature the condemnation by the State of the abominable practice which has done so much to disgrace the country, it would be worth all the labor that has been spent in promoting its passage. You will never get an adequate reward in this world for your efforts in baehalf of the oppressed and the humble, but you believe in a hereafter, and I hope there is one, if for no other (over) reason than that you and those like you may receive their reward.

Sincerely yours, Chas. W. Chesnutt.