[Rarebooks] FS: Handwritten Letter by Charles Chesnutt mentioning his new book The House Behind the Cedars

[Charles Agvent]

One of a number of African-American pieces in our recent catalog: Summer 
Miscellany with 85 select items in a variety of fields. See the catalog 
here: *http://www.charlesagvent.com/agvent/images/pdfs/Summer2017.pdf*

CHESNUTT, Charles W. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. Cleveland, 5 September 
1900. A fine two-page handwritten letter on one side of a 10-1/8" x 
6-1/4" sheet of paper SIGNED by Chesnutt (1858-1932), a biracial author, 
attorney, and civil rights activist who was the first African-American 
novelist whose work crossed into the white mainstream. Addressed to Miss 
Maude Jones about how to get in touch with the poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar 
and mentioning one of his best-known works. In part: "It is interesting 
to think that my autograph might give you pleasure. I do not know the 
address of Mr. Paul Lawrence Dunbar, but he resides in New York, and a 
letter directed in care of his publishers Messrs Dodd, Mead and Co 5th 
Avenue & 21st St, New York will doubtless reach him. I hope you may read 
my new book The House Behind the Cedars which will be out late October." 
Usual creases from folding. Near Fine. (#017721)        $1,000.00

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