Charles W. Chesnutt to Booker T. Washington, 28 May 1904 Charles W. Chesnutt Stephanie Browner Kenneth M. Price Matt Cohen Transcription, encoding Swift, Bianca Matheis, Caitlin S. Anderson, Antje Weakly, Laura K. 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 Booker T. Washington, 28 May 1904 May 28, 1904 Transcription derived from scan of microfilmed original. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress Booker T. Washington papers, 1853-1946 https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78044669 MSS44669 9 8 Chesnutt, Charles Waddell Correspondence Ogden, Robert C. Page, Thomas Nelson Thomas, William Hannibal McKinlay, Whitefield J. typed letter signed Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell) Cleveland, Ohio Washington, Booker T. Tuskegee, Alabama Unknown Unknown Laura K. Weaklycommented out prev/next links to unpublished letters Laura K. Weaklyproofed Antje Andersonannotated Caitlin S. Matheisproofed Bianca Swifttranscribed and encoded 19-1
CHAS. W. CHESNUTT 1005 WILLIAMSON BUILDING CLEVELAND, O.
May 28, 1904.
Dr. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Ala.
My dear Dr. Washington:-

I am in receipt of your favor enclosing copy of letter from Mr. Ogden, and of your reply thereto. I have sent to Mr. Ogden a complete statement of what I learned in reference to Thomas, and a copy of my correspondence with The Macmillan Company in reference thereto, with the suggestion that I will be glad to have Mr. Schurz make use of any part of it in reply to Mr. Page. I had thought of writing something of the sort myself, but I am very glad to see it undertaken by some one of greater prominence and influence.

I lectured in Washington the other day to the Bethel Literary and Historical Association upon the Elements of Citizenship. I approached it at a different angle from that which you ordinarily take, directing myself to the legal and ethical basis of citizenship rather than to its practical working out. I have seen in some newspaper since, the statement that I had attacked you in my utterances. The only reference which I made to you was I think entirely complimentary, and if our points of view would conflict at all, that is of course a matter for legitimate argument. Your friend Whitfield McKinlay who was present at the lecture, can tell you what I said, if it should be a matter of any interest to you.

Sincerely yours, Chas. W. Chesnutt.