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Charles WADDELL Chesnutt

Stamp to Honor Black Author, Charles W. Chesnutt

Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Principal
N. C. State Colored Normal School
1880-1883

Finding Aid To

Charles Waddell Chesnutt Papers

Lamont Avenue Home in Cleveland, Ohio

Bibliography
Biographical Information
CHRONOLOGY Library of America
Web Sites

Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Noted Author
*Conjure Woman, 1899
*Frederick Douglass, 1899
*The Wife of His Youth and Other *Stories of the Color Line, 1899
*House Behind the Cedars, 1900
*Marrow of Tradition, 1901
*The Colonel's Dream, 1905
Mandy Oxendine, 1997
Paul Marchand, F.M.C., 1999
The Quarry, 1999
*Electronic Texts from
Documenting the American South

General Collection Description: The Charles W. Chesnutt Collection consists of nine folders in one archival box, 0.5 linear feet. The nine folders contain background information, copies of finding aids, personal and business correspondence. See Detailed Description.

Box Number	Folder Number and Type of Information	Thumbnail	Date	Piece Number	Brief Description
Box No. 1	Folder No. 1 BIOGRAPHY and BACKGROUND Introductory notes		1968	1-1	Tribute to Charles Waddell Chesnutt delivered by Ms. Nathalene R. Smith at the dedication of Chesnutt Library April 21,1968
Box No. 1	Folder No. 1 BIOGRAPHY and BACKGROUND Introductory notes			1-2	Charles Waddell Chesnutt by Sylvia Lyons Render from the1969 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica
Box No. 1	Folder No. 1 BIOGRAPHY and BACKGROUND Introductory notes		1968	1-3	Book mark containing biographical information on Mr. Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Box No. 1

Folder No. 2 CORRESPONDENCE
FINDING AID

2- 1

Material copied from the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio

Box No. 1	Folder No. 3 CORRESPONDENCE	1890	3-1	Letter to George Cable dated May 6, 1890 regarding a possible plagiarism
Box No. 1	Folder No. 3 CORRESPONDENCE	1890	3-2	Letter to George Cable date May 15, 1890
Box No. 1	Folder No. 3 CORRESPONDENCE	1890	3-3	Letter to George Cable dated July 25, 1890
Box No. 1	Folder No. 3 CORRESPONDENCE	1890	3-4	Letter to Houghton Mifflin & Co. September 8, 1891
Box No. 1	Folder No. 3 CORRESPONDENCE	1895	3-5	Letter to George Cable dated April 11, 1895

Box No. 1	Folder No. 4 CORRESPONDENCE	4-1	(Unidentified)
Box No. 1	Folder No. 4 CORRESPONDENCE	4-2	Letters to Miss A.M. Moffott
Box No. 1	Folder No. 4 CORRESPONDENCE	4-3	Letter to Mr. Cable

Box No. 1	Folder No. 5 CORRESPONDENCE Includes letters to Mr. Page	5-1	Letter to Mr. Page
Box No. 1	Folder No. 5 CORRESPONDENCE Includes letters to Mr. Page	5-2	Letter to Mr. Page
Box No. 1	Folder No. 5 CORRESPONDENCE Includes letters to Mr. Page	5-3	Letter to Mr. Page
Box No. 1	Folder No. 5 CORRESPONDENCE Includes letters to Mr. Page	5-4	Letter to Mr. Page
Box No. 1	Folder No. 5 CORRESPONDENCE Includes letters to Mr. Page	5-5	Letter to Mr. Page
Box No. 1	Folder No. 5 CORRESPONDENCE Includes letters to Mr. Page	5-6	Letter to Mr. Page
Box No. 1	Folder No. 5 CORRESPONDENCE Includes letters to Mr. Page	5-7	Unidentified
Box No. 1	Folder No. 5 CORRESPONDENCE Includes letters to Mr. Page	5-8	To Messrs, Houghton, Mifflin and Co.
Box No. 1	Folder No. 5 CORRESPONDENCE Includes letters to Mr. Page	5-9	To Messrs, Houghton, Mifflin and Co.

Box No. 1	Folder No. 6 CORRESPONDENCE Folder includes correspondence to William Dean Howells and Dr. Booker T. Washington	6-1	To Howells
Box No. 1	Folder No. 6 CORRESPONDENCE Folder includes correspondence to William Dean Howells and Dr. Booker T. Washington	6-2	To Mr. Trotter
Box No. 1	Folder No. 6 CORRESPONDENCE Folder includes correspondence to William Dean Howells and Dr. Booker T. Washington	6-3	To Outlook Publishing Co.
Box No. 1	Folder No. 6 CORRESPONDENCE Folder includes correspondence to William Dean Howells and Dr. Booker T. Washington	6-4	To Charles King
Box No. 1	Folder No. 6 CORRESPONDENCE Folder includes correspondence to William Dean Howells and Dr. Booker T. Washington	6-5	To Houghton, Mifflin
Box No. 1	Folder No. 6 CORRESPONDENCE Folder includes correspondence to William Dean Howells and Dr. Booker T. Washington	6-6	To Houghton, Mifflin
Box No. 1	Folder No. 6 CORRESPONDENCE Folder includes correspondence to William Dean Howells and Dr. Booker T. Washington	6-7	To Dr. Booker T. Washington
Box No. 1	Folder No. 6 CORRESPONDENCE Folder includes correspondence to William Dean Howells and Dr. Booker T. Washington	6-8	To Professor Miller
Box No. 1	Folder No. 6 CORRESPONDENCE Folder includes correspondence to William Dean Howells and Dr. Booker T. Washington	6-9	To Librarian to Hampton Institute.
Box No. 1	Folder No. 6 CORRESPONDENCE Folder includes correspondence to William Dean Howells and Dr. Booker T. Washington	6-10	To Mr. Hills

Box No. 1	Folder no. 7 CORRESPONDENCE (continued)	7-1	To Houghton, Mifflin
Box No. 1	Folder no. 7 CORRESPONDENCE (continued)	7-2	To Houghton, Mifflin
Box No. 1	Folder no. 7 CORRESPONDENCE (continued)	7-3	To Houghton, Mifflin
Box No. 1	Folder no. 7 CORRESPONDENCE (continued)	7-4	From Houghton, Mifflin
Box No. 1	Folder no. 7 CORRESPONDENCE (continued)	7-5	To Mr. Dale
Box No. 1	Folder no. 7 CORRESPONDENCE (continued)	7-6	To Bishop Walls
Box No. 1	Folder no. 7 CORRESPONDENCE (continued)	7-7	To Dr. and Mrs. Scott
Box No. 1	Folder no. 7 CORRESPONDENCE (continued)	7-8	To Mrs. Johnson
Box No. 1	Folder no. 7 CORRESPONDENCE (continued)	7-9	To Houghton, Mifflin

Box No. 1	Folder no. 8 CORRESPONDENCE Letters to Sisters			8-1	Letter to Anne Chesnutt
Box No. 1	Folder no. 8 CORRESPONDENCE Letters to Sisters			8-2	Letter to Anne Chesnutt

Box No. 1	Folder no. 9 (Xerox Copies) CORRESPONDENCE	9-1	Chesnutt and Booker T. Washington
Box No. 1	Folder no. 9 (Xerox Copies) CORRESPONDENCE	9-2	Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Box No. 1	Folder no. 9 (Xerox Copies) CORRESPONDENCE	9-3	Mark Twain's Birthday Dinner
Box No. 1	Folder no. 9 (Xerox Copies) CORRESPONDENCE	9-4	The Spingarn Medal
Box No. 1	Folder no. 9 (Xerox Copies) CORRESPONDENCE	9-5	Fayetteville's Charles W. Chesnutt: A Tar Heel Literary Pioneer
Box No. 1	Folder no. 9 (Xerox Copies) CORRESPONDENCE	9-6	As Carter Woodson sees it - Tells of Personal Experience with late Charles W. Chesnutt
Box No. 1	Folder no. 9 (Xerox Copies) CORRESPONDENCE	9-7	Reading and Writing
Box No. 1	Folder no. 9 (Xerox Copies) CORRESPONDENCE	9-8	Picture (unknown
Box No. 1	Folder no. 9 (Xerox Copies) CORRESPONDENCE	9-9	Picture (unknown
Box No. 1	Folder no. 9 (Xerox Copies) CORRESPONDENCE	9-10	Dedication of a New Library at Fayetteville State College
Box No. 1	Folder no. 9 (Xerox Copies) CORRESPONDENCE	9-11	Charles Waddell Chesnutt (Dies in 74th Year)

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