_Dear Sir:_
I want to congratulate you on the appearance and contents of this first
number. It has received most favorable comment from every one to whom I
have shown it. I certainly wish it every success.
Yours truly,
Caroline B. Chapin
_Englewood, N.J._
_Dear Mr. Woodson:_
I have examined with more than usual interest the copy of THE JOURNAL OF
NEGRO HISTORY which has just reached me through your courtesy. It certainly
looks hopeful and I trust that the venture may prove its usefulness very
quickly. I am sending you my check for a subscription as I shall be glad to
receive subsequent issues.
Wishing you great success in your editorial position and hoping that the
idea of the organization may be attained, I remain,
Yours very truly,
F.w. Shepardson,
_Professor of American History,
The University of Chicago_
_My dear Dr. Woodson:_
I looked over the first number of THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY with much
interest. It bears every evidence of a scientific disposition on the part
of the editor and his board.
Yours sincerely,
Ferdinand Schevill,
_Professor of European History,
The University of Chicago_
_My dear Dr. Woodson:_
Your magazine is excellent. I am noting it in the current _Crisis_.
Very sincerely Yours,
W. E. B. DuBois,
_Editor of the Crisis_
_My dear Dr. Woodson:_
Enclosed find my check for $1 for one year's subscription to THE JOURNAL OF
NEGRO HISTORY. I am enjoying the reading of the first issue and shall look
forward with interest to the coming of each successive one.
With best wishes for the work, I am,
Very truly yours,
T. C. Williams,
_Manassas, Va._
_My dear Dr. Woodson:_
I have read THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY with pleasure, interest, profit
and withal, amazement. The typographical appearance, the size and the
strong scholastic historical articles reveal research capacity of the
writers, breadth of learning and fine literary taste. Having been the
editor of the _Voice of the Negro_ and knowing somewhat of the literary
capacity of the best writers of the race, I cannot but express satisfaction
and amazement with this new venture under your leadership. I sincerely hope
and even devoutly pray that this latest born from the brain of the Negro
race may grow in influence and power, as it deserves, to vindicate for the
thinkers of the race their claim to citizenship in the republic of thought
and letters. Count upon me as a fellow worker.
Yours sincerely,
J. W. E. Bowen
_Vice-President of Gammon Theological Seminary_
_My Dear Dr. Woodson:_
I have examined with interest the first number of THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO
HISTORY, which you so kindly sent me. It is a credit to its editors and
contributors and I hope it may continue to preserve high standards and to
prosper.
Sincerely yours,
Frederick J. Turner,
_Professor of American History in Harvard University_
_My dear Dr. Woodson:_
I am obliged to you for your copy of THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY and am
interested in knowing that you have undertaken this interesting work. I
shall endeavor to see that it is ordered for our library. I should suppose
that if you could manage to float it and keep it going for a few years, at
least, that it would have considerable historical value.
Very sincerely yours,
A. C. Mclaughlin,
_Head of the Department of American History,
The University of Chicago_
_My dear Dr. Woodson:_
Thank you for sending me the JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY, which I have
examined with interest and which I am calling to the attention of the
Harvard Library. You have struck a good field of work, and I am sure you
can achieve genuine results in it.
Sincerely yours,
Charles H. Haskins,
_Dean of the Harvard Graduate School_
_My dear Dr. Woodson:_
Please accept my thanks for an initial copy of THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY
which you were kind enough to send me. I am delighted with it. Its
mechanical makeup leaves nothing to be desired and its contents possess a
permanent value. It should challenge the support of all forward-looking men
of the race and command the respect of the thinking men of the entire
country regardless of creed or color. I wish you the fullest measure of
success in this unique undertaking.
Your friend,
J.w. Scott,
_Principal of the Douglass High School,
Huntington, W. Va._
_My dear Mr. Woodson:_
I wish to acknowledge the receipt of the first number of THE JOURNAL OF
NEGRO HISTORY. I have read it with much interest and congratulate you, as
the editor, upon your achievement. The more I think of the matter, the more
do I believe there is a place for such a publication. The history of the
Negro in Africa, in the West Indies, in Spanish America, and in the United
States offers a large field in which little appears to have been done.
Very truly yours,
A. H. Buffinton,
_Instructor in History, Williams College_
_My dear Sir:_
A copy of THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY was received yesterday and I wish to
thank you and the gentlemen associated with you for this magnificent
effort. There is "class" to this magazine, more "class" than I have seen in
any of our race journals. May I say, notwithstanding the fact that I edited
a race magazine once myself, the whole magazine is clean and high and
deserves a place in our homes and college libraries alongside with the
great periodicals of the land.
Yours very truly,