To Caroline B. Day, June 4, 1938

  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 […]