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THE NEW YORK AGE

PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY FRED R. MOORE

247 WEST FORTY-SIXTH STREET

NEW YORK

June 9. 1916

My dear James W.

Frank you for your letter. The Editorial you speak of, I will explain when we meet. I think it will work to our advantage. I certainly wouldn't like to see Hughes nominated. The Colored delegates have a splendid opportunity to make themselves felt. Hey don't seem to have made an impression from the reading of the platform. I am sending herein letter and endorsement of Mrs Braker. You should get acquainted with your letter. You might also speak to Mr Abbott. We don't know much through him, and he is a might slim pug. A wide awake agent could certainly sell papers there. Ask Mr Purcell, how he made out with our collection. If he has done nothing, ask him to kindly turn over his papers and check of Johnson's. I can't think we better through an agency here. Hope to see you soon.

We are all well.

Don't look much like Teddy.

63 Dixwell Ave.,
New Haven, Conn.

June, 15, 1916.

Mr. Fred R. Moore,
Editor New York Age,
Dear Sir:

My meeting with you in New York a couple of
weeks ago seemed to be a very timely one. As I told you, I had
just completed a book, and it was my desire to have some one
to pass judgment upon the MSS as a whole.

There are so few, as you know Mr. Moore, who can take
a piece of race literature and give a fair and impartial judgment
upon such a thing. It truly must be the person who has been in
the work and who has turned out something worth while. And, I can
wish no better person more competent person than your contributing
editor, Mr. James Johnson to do such for me. No race book has been
more enjoyed by me than his "Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man."

I wish, since you suggested his seeing my literary
venture, Mr. Moore, talk to him concerning the same and ask him
when an audience can be arranged, and what remuneration would be
expected. Tell him I have type-written my MSS, and it consists of
about 100 pages of the size I am using in writing you, the type
this size and the arrangement of the pages about as I have this

I mention this because Illegible MSS is very undesirable, and althe it was not the final one for the publisher, as I thought I would care to have it passed upon before I put it into the hands of the literary butchers.

In doing this favor for me Mr. Moore, I may be able
some time to help you.

Concerning your paper up this way, I don't know how.

what to say. I have lived among these people for nearly ten years
and yet I cannot say I quite understand them. There are about six
thousand Afro Americans in this community and it is claimed that
the "Guardian" is the paper of the city, yet I would wager at this
moment that there are not one hundred copies received here. Not
long ago Mrs. Trotter was here and revived the drooping spirits of
the weekly and since she has been gone, the agency has passed from
hand to hand, the last being a student whom I understand has given
it up, and today you will find that the only avenue to the
"prized paper" is the same as we take for the Age, in the Jew's
store up the street.

To be somewhat prophetic, I would venture to say that
I think any paper that would give a goodly space for New Haven
notes, and be thoroughly talked up by some agent would the paper.
The fault lies in the fact that although the people are not so hard
to arouse, they are hard to keep.

If I run down to have Mr. Johnson go over my work if
you can so arrange, then I can personally talk with you and you
can judge if it is worth while to boost your paper up this way.
We have never been subscribers of the Guardian as we disliked the
fighting spirit of Mr. Trotter. We get the Age nearly every week
from Kline, yet I think I prefer to have it sent from the office
so will send you a check at my next writing as Doctor is not a-
round to sigh one for me now.

I can arrange to get down for a day most any time, if
you can arrange with Mr. Johnson for me. I am desirous of putting
this piece of race fiction out, as I notice that no fiction has
been offered by colored women recently.

Remember me very kindly to your folks. If I have time
when I run down, I shall surely get to see them.

Trusting you may favor me with an early reply, I am
Yours, very truly,