ALBERT BUSHNELL HART
PROFESSOR OF GOVERNMENT EMERITUS IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY
775 WIDENER LIBRARY, CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

February 16, 1938.

Dear Professor Johnson:-

Have I written to express my interest and advantage from your recent address at the Old South Forum. It was so temperate but so much to the point, so self-convincing that I felt it opened up an enlarged view of the status of the Negro question.

That question has interested me for something like eighty years. The house of my grandfather- Ambrose Hart - at Brookfield, Trumbull County, Ohio, was a station on the Underground Railway, and part of that house is still standing. Five miles away was another station, carried on by my aunt, Mrs. Miner. My father served three years in the western armies. I have paid considerable attention to the Negro question in my book *The Southern South*. If you have not a copy, I shall be happy to send you one.

As one of the Trustees of Howard University I have an opportunity to know something of the efforts toward the higher education of the Negro.

What have you published on this general subject? If you will send me a list, I will see to it that the Harvard College Library acquires the set, except so far as they may already have the volumes.

You have a rare ability to put things exactly, and to back up your views with a native eloquence.

February 19, 1958

Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart
775 Widener Library
Cambridge, Mass.

My dear Prof. Hart:

I thank you for writing me. I am interested in knowing if you were at the meeting at Old South Forum or did you merely read some report from what I said? If you were present at is a matter of great regret to me that I did not have the opportunity of shaking hands with you.

I have for so long a time known you through your writings and your actions that I would have deemed it a great honor to have met you personally. I do not have a copy of your book "The Southern South". I would appreciate it very much if you will send a copy to me.

I have written a number of articles, addresses and even books on the general subject of "The Negro in America". I am sending enclosed a little folder which contains a list of the most of my published books.

JWJ:ew