_My dear Dr. Woodson:_
I thank you cordially for sending me a copy of the first issue of THE
JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY. It is a real pleasure to see a journal of this
kind, dignified in form and content, and conforming in every way to the
highest standards of modern historical research. You and your colleagues
are to be congratulated on beginning your enterprise with such promise, and
you certainly have my very best wishes for the future success of an
undertaking so significant for the history of Negro culture in America and
the world.
I feel it a duty to assist concretely in work of this kind, and accordingly
I enclose my check for sixteen dollars, of which fifteen dollars are in
payment of a life membership fee in the Association for the Study of Negro
Life and History, and one dollar for a year's subscription to the JOURNAL.
Very sincerely yours,