HUBERT T. DELANY

COUNSELLOR AT LAW
240 BROADWAY
NEW YORK
—
BARCLAY 5476

August 22, 1929.

Mr. James Weldon Johnson,
69 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.

My dear Mr. Johnson:

I do not need, I am sure, to reiterate my
thanks to you for your expressed desire to cooperate
with me in any way that you can in the matter of my
election to Congress in the Fall.

I am wondering if it would be possible for
you to write me a letter concerning my candidacy, which
could be used by me in connection with my campaign.

HTD: FMC

September 3, 1929

Dear Mr. Delany:

It is a matter of great satisfaction
that a man of your integrity, intelligence
and ability has been designated as the
Republican candidate for Congress from the
81st Assembly District.

It is needless to say that the
colored people of New York and the entire
country would be greatly benefited by
having you in the House of Representatives;
and the colored people of New York should
do all in their power to see that you are
elected. I shall be glad to do whatever
I can to help bring about that result.

I am enclosing my check as a con-
tribution to your campaign fund.

With sincere wishes for your success,
I am

Yours very truly,

Hubert T. Delany, Esq.
240 Broadway
New York City

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February 19th, 1934

Mr. James Weldon Johnson,
Fisk University,
Nashville, Tenn.

My dear Mr. Johnson:-

I don't think that you can realize how much I appreciate the letter which you were kind enough to write me on February 7th, congratulating me on my recent appointment.

While I have received hundreds upon hundreds of letters and telegrams, there are some which stand out in my mind as real expressions of friendship in contrast to the many that contain mere formal words. Yours is one that I shall remember and appreciate, because you have shown to me on more than one occasion that you were my friend and interested in my success.

I am particularly interested to know, and hope that you will tell me, the basis of the prediction you made about me some years ago when I was a law student. If the time had been placed by you a few years prior to that, when I was in college, I would think that you had in mind the time when all of us were picketing the Capitol Theatre.

I don't think that you can realize the inspiration that you as an individual have been to me, inasmuch as we have not constantly come in contact with each other personally. I can remember, however, how the spirit of rebellion and the consciousness of the duty that fell upon me as one of the younger members of our group, when back in 1919 or 1920 I heard you speak at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn and watched you literally walking the platform as you stirred your audience, and me particularly, with the necessity of remembering that it was our duty to be ever mindful of our responsibility to see that the Declaration of Independence was not to be forever considered as mere idle words inapplicable to us.

Mr. James Weldon Johnson - 2

February 19th, 1934

While I have attempted to keep my feet on the ground, I have, nevertheless, from that day tried to realize our responsibility and to prepare myself to act and fight to gain and maintain for ourselves the rights to which we are entitled under our Constitution.

I am thankful for your expression of faith in me.

With kind personal regards to you and
Mrs. Johnson, I am,

HTD/MCF