{"id":65,"date":"2022-04-04T11:40:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T15:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/?p=65"},"modified":"2022-04-29T14:27:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T18:27:11","slug":"letter-from-w-e-b-du-bois-to-betty-millard-june-6-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/letter-from-w-e-b-du-bois-to-betty-millard-june-6-1959\/","title":{"rendered":"To Betty Millard, June 6, 1959"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-65-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/wav\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2022\/04\/ill-hear-the-trumpet-4_21_22-4.22-PM.wav?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2022\/04\/ill-hear-the-trumpet-4_21_22-4.22-PM.wav\">https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2022\/04\/ill-hear-the-trumpet-4_21_22-4.22-PM.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_158\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2022\/04\/13HearTheTrumpet.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-158 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2022\/04\/13HearTheTrumpet.gif\" alt=\"sheet music for I'll Hear the Trumpet Sound\" width=\"440\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;I&#8217;ll Hear the Trumpet Sound&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You may bury me in the East,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You may bury me in the West,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But I&#8217;ll hear that trumpet sound<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In that morning. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Sundquist, 522)<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-4\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"4\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"To Millard\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transcript:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">London, June 6, 1959\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dear Betty Millard:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have thought of you many times in the last ten months but as time rushed on, the more I would have to put in any real letter to you grew and grew until it became just impossible. I have been whirled so miraculously through impossible places and to inconceivable things that their real explanation can only be left to endless talk. Meantime I have grown inconceivably old and in short I didn\u2019t write and I\u2019m not writing now but simply saying that I still live I still remember you and if as is quite likely you have quite forgotten me why then here\u2019s a signature and its trying to say that the French Line \u201cLiberte\u201d leaving London June 25 is due to land me in New York July I<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I kiss you<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">W E B Du Bois<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to Betty Millard, June 6, 1959. Sophia Smith Collection of Women&#8217;s History, Betty Millard Papers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; You may bury me in the East, You may bury me in the West, But I&#8217;ll hear that trumpet sound In that morning. (Sundquist, 522) &nbsp; Transcript: London, June 6, 1959\u00a0 Dear Betty Millard:\u00a0 I have thought of you many times in the last ten months but as time rushed on, the more I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}