Letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to Anita Blaine

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Title:
Letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to Anita Blaine
Description:
In advance of their impending meeting in Chicago, arranged by Henry Wallace and Paul Robeson, providing her with the background of his education, professional service, publications, and earnings; describing the ongoing series of skirmishes with the administration of the NAACP; relaying the current state of his finances, and the impact thereon of his wife's illness and family's needs; noting his need for a new job and overall situation of "crisis"; and hoping that her "undeveloped plans fit with mine" in some advantageous fashion. Draft bears Du Bois's hand-pencilled edits.
Creator:
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
Addressee:
Blaine, Anita McCormick
Date:
[December 1948]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Genre:
Drafts (documents)
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 117 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
W. E. B. Du Bois Papers
Series:
Series 1A. Correspondence
Subjects:
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)--1868-1963--Biography
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)--1868-1963--Finance, Personal
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Extent:
3 p.
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b117-i186
Terms of Use:
All rights for this document are held by the David Graham Du Bois Trust. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
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Place of origin:
New York (N.Y.)
Language:
English
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
mums312-b117-i186