{"id":68,"date":"2022-04-04T11:40:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T15:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/?p=68"},"modified":"2022-04-29T14:25:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T18:25:56","slug":"letter-from-w-e-b-du-bois-to-caroline-b-day-june-4-1938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/letter-from-w-e-b-du-bois-to-caroline-b-day-june-4-1938\/","title":{"rendered":"To Caroline B. Day, June 4, 1938"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-68-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/wav\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2022\/04\/wrestling-jacob-4_21_22-4.23-PM.wav?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2022\/04\/wrestling-jacob-4_21_22-4.23-PM.wav\">https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2022\/04\/wrestling-jacob-4_21_22-4.23-PM.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160\" style=\"width: 452px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2022\/04\/14WrestlingJacob.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-160 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2022\/04\/14WrestlingJacob.gif\" alt=\"sheet music for Wrestling Jacob\" width=\"452\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Wrestling Jacob&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wrestling Jacob, Jacob, day is a-breaking,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wrestling Jacob, Jacob, I will not let you go&#8230;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (Sundquist, 525)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-1\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"1\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"To Caroline B. Day\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transcript\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">June 4, 1938\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My dear Carrie:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I always get hot under the collar when any\u00adbody uses that quotation of mine from the SOULS\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">OF BLACK FOLK because it is almost always wrong since somebody wishes to correct my English. The correct quotation will be found in Chapter twelve. Of Alexander Crummell, p. 226,227 and it is as fol\u00adlows: &#8220;And herein lies the tragedy of the age, not that men are poor, \u2013 all men know something of poverty, -not that men are wicked, \u2013 who is good? not that men are ignorant, \u2013 what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.\u201d If you find anybody changing that last line, please kill them for me!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Very sincerely yours,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[no signature]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mrs. Caroline B. Day<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Southeast House\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">301 G Street Southeast<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Washington, D. C.\u00a0<\/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 Caroline B. Day, June 4, 1938. 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-b085-i070.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Wrestling Jacob, Jacob, day is a-breaking, Wrestling Jacob, Jacob, I will not let you go&#8230; (Sundquist, 525) &nbsp; &nbsp; Transcript\u00a0 June 4, 1938\u00a0 My dear Carrie:\u00a0 I always get hot under the collar when any\u00adbody uses that quotation of mine from the SOULS\u00a0 OF BLACK FOLK because it is almost always wrong since somebody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friend","category-professional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","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=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/doctorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}