{"id":63,"date":"2022-04-04T11:39:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T15:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/?p=63"},"modified":"2022-04-29T14:28:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T18:28:18","slug":"letter-from-w-e-b-du-bois-to-annie-f-jenkins-april-7-1926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/letter-from-w-e-b-du-bois-to-annie-f-jenkins-april-7-1926\/","title":{"rendered":"To Annie F. Jenkins, April 7, 1926"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-63-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/wav\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2022\/04\/swing-low-4_21_22-4.21-PM.wav?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2022\/04\/swing-low-4_21_22-4.21-PM.wav\">https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2022\/04\/swing-low-4_21_22-4.21-PM.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_155\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155\" style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2022\/04\/12SwingLow.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-155 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2022\/04\/12SwingLow.gif\" alt=\"sheet music of Swing Low Sweet Chariot\" width=\"476\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Swing Low, Sweet Chariot&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Swing low, sweet chariot,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coming for to carry me home,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Swing low, sweet chariot <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Sundquist, 518)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-10\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"10\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"To Jenkins\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transcript:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">April 7, 1926.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Miss Annie F. Jenkins,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">745 South 22nd Street,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Philadelphia, Pa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My dear Miss Jenkins:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeats starts where Emerson left off. Emerson said:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If eyes were made for seeing,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then beauty is its only excuse for being.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeats would go farther, and maintained that beauty had certain rights whether there were any eyes to see it or not. That art doesn\u2019t reflect the beautiful things in nature. It doesn\u2019t care anything about nature. It doesn\u2019t even have to be beautiful. It simply has to be.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With best regards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Very sincerely yours,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[no signature]\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">WEBD\/DW<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. Letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to Annie F. Jenkins, April 7, 1926. W. E. B. Du Bois Papers (MS 312). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries. https:\/\/credo.library.umass.edu\/view\/full\/mums312-b034-i026.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Swing low, sweet chariot, Coming for to carry me home, Swing low, sweet chariot (Sundquist, 518) &nbsp; Transcript: April 7, 1926.\u00a0 Miss Annie F. Jenkins,\u00a0 745 South 22nd Street,\u00a0 Philadelphia, Pa.\u00a0 My dear Miss Jenkins:\u00a0 Yeats starts where Emerson left off. 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