Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Wesley

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Two pages. Dated March 12, 1937 from Johnson with Fisk University in Nashville as his return address. Folded once for mailing, else fine. A warm, personal letter of 26 lines from Johnson to Charles Wesley. The letter begins "Dear Dr. Wesley: I have received your communications. My seeming delay in answering this is due to the fact that I have been away on two extended lecture trips. I was especially glad to get your letter about your visit to Texas. No changes in that situation, so far as I know, has taken place since I last wrote you. And I judge it will remain as it is until the report of the special committee is given to the board. It is expected that a meeting of the board will be called for next month. I still feel that the outlook is favorable. Of course, as is always the case, there are factors that are hardly discernible, and they cannot be handled until they are out in the open. Please keep in touch with me, and I shall do likewise with you. I hope you are in the best of health, and that the same is true of all the family. Mrs. Johnson joins me in warm regards to you and Mrs. Wesley. Cordially yours, James Weldon Johnson." The recipient, Black scholar Charles H. Wesley, received his Bachelor's degree from Fisk in 1911, his Master's from Yale in 1913, and in 1925, he became the third African-American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard. He served as Dean at Howard University until 1942, President of Wilberforce University from 1942 to 1947, and President of Central State College from 1947-1965. In 1965 he became the Director of Research and Publications for the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, and was its Executive Director from 1965 to 1972. A nice letter between two important scholars and authors. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 518401

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