Wrestling Jacob, Jacob, day is a-breaking, Wrestling Jacob, Jacob, I will not let you go… (Sundquist, 525) Transcript June 4, 1938 My dear Carrie: I always get hot under the collar when anybody uses that quotation of mine from the SOULS OF BLACK FOLK because it is almost always wrong since somebody […]
To Betty Millard, June 6, 1959
You may bury me in the East, You may bury me in the West, But I’ll hear that trumpet sound In that morning. (Sundquist, 522) Transcript: London, June 6, 1959 Dear Betty Millard: I have thought of you many times in the last ten months but as time rushed on, the more I […]
To Annie F. Jenkins, April 7, 1926
Swing low, sweet chariot, Coming for to carry me home, Swing low, sweet chariot (Sundquist, 518) Transcript: April 7, 1926. Miss Annie F. Jenkins, 745 South 22nd Street, Philadelphia, Pa. My dear Miss Jenkins: Yeats starts where Emerson left off. Emerson said: If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its only […]
To George Streator, April 24, 1935
Oh! breth-er-en, my way, my way’s cloudy, my way, Go send them angels down. (Sundquist, 500) Transcript: ATLANTA UNIVERSITY ATLANTA, GEORGIA April 24, 1935 Mr. George Streator 211 West 149 Street Apartment 5A, C/O White New York, New York My dear Mr. Streator: I have received your two letters of April 9 and […]