COPY

JAMES WELDON JOHNSON

November 6, 1933

Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
The White House
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mrs. Roosevelt:

It is hardly probable that you
would recall me, but I remember with distinct plea-
sure that at a dinner given by Edward Bok some years
ago in New York in furtherance of his Peace Plan I
had the privilege of sitting at your right. It is
upon that slight ground that I am presuming to write
to you personally and say that I am sending to the
President, through you, an inscribed copy of Along
This Way - The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson,
with the hope that you will be good enough to bring
it to his attention, and with the hope also that you
with him may be able to find time to read the book.

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

Mr. James Weldon Johnson
Fisk University
Nashville
Tennessee