Charles Waddell Chesnutt letters, 1899-1900.

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt letters, 1899-1900.

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The collection consists of three letters, including: to M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 31 Oct. 1899, sending his biography of Frederic Douglass; to Herbert Small, of Small, Maynard and Co., 6 Nov. 1899, about his work, and Small's comment about essays in the life and literature of colored people; to Mr. Lawrence Maynard, of Small, Maynard and Co., 26 Dec. 1900, acknowledging receipt of a royalty check for his Douglass biography.

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Howe, M.A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960

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American author of numerous biographies and nonfiction accounts, many about the New England area; recipient of 1924 Pulitzer Prize for his biography, BARRETT WENDELL AND HIS LETTERS. From the description of Correspondence, 1921-1960. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122492230 Biographer, editor, historian, and poet. From the description of Papers of M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1920,1935. (University of Vir...

Maynard, Laurens, 1866-1917

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Editor, studied at Boston University Law School. Practiced law in Boston, 1887-1889. Entered firm of Small, Maynard & Co, publishers, on its organization in 1897. Served as treasurer 1899-1906. He did editorial and literary work since 1906. From the description of ALS, 1902 Sept., to G.P. Stikvell. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510458 ...

Small, Maynard & Company

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Small, Herbert, 1913-1978

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Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt was America's first important African-American author, and earned a reputation for both his socially conscious work and his literary innovation. Born in Cleveland to free black parents, he was raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and travelled throughout the south, as well as New York and Washington, D.C., before settling in Cleveland with his wife. He had worked as a teacher, and in Cleveland started a successful stenography business, learned law, and passed the bar ...