Charles W. Chesnutt to Ernest Angell, 18 March 1922 Charles W. Chesnutt Stephanie P. Browner Kenneth M. Price Transcription, encoding, and annotation Millhorn, Lauren Anderson, Antje Weakly, Laura K. Barney, Brett Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln The New School 2024 The Charles W. Chesnutt Archive
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 Charles W. Chesnutt to Ernest Angell, 18 March 1922 March 18, 1922 Transcription derived from scan of microfilmed original. Western Reserve Historical Society Charles Waddell Chesnutt Papers MS 3370 1 2 Correspondence Flory, Walter L. Storey, Moorfield Henry, Frederick A. Haiti typed copy unsigned Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell) Angell, Ernest New York, New York Brett Barney checked; corrected Laura K. Weakly proofed Antje Anderson annotated, made further corrections Lauren Millhorn transcribed, encoded March 18, 1922.
Mr. Ernest Angell, 50 Pine Street, New York City.
My dear Mr. Angell:

Mr. Walter L. Flory ashas written me a letter, in which he gives extracts of your letter to him concerning the American occupation of Haiti, and asked me to sign the brief drawn up by Mr. Storey, of which he enclosed a copy.

I have kept in pretty close touch through the newspapers, principally the Nation, with conditions in Haiti, and sign this brief very willingly indeed, my only regret being that my name cannot add greater weight to it than it will.

I have also secured the signature of Judge F. A. Henry, former Judge of the Court of Appeals of Ohio, of this district. I have spoken to several other gentlemen, but find that some of them do not wish to sign for lack of any information on the other side, and some because they think it would be disloyal to suggest that the United States Government could do anything wrong. I enclose signed copy of brief.

I hope that you will secure all the signatures needed, and that the brief may accomplish its purpose. The United States ought to be able to help the Haitians out of the rut without entirely depriveding them of their hard-earned and long maintained independence.

Yours very truly, CWC/FL