Wishing you great success in your editorial position and hoping that the idea of the organization may be attained, I remain,

Yours very truly,

F.w.  Shepardson,
Professor of American History,
The University of Chicago

My dear Dr. Woodson:

I looked over the first number of THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY with much interest.  It bears every evidence of a scientific disposition on the part of the editor and his board.

Yours sincerely,

Ferdinand Schevill,
Professor of European History,
The University of Chicago

My dear Dr. Woodson:

Your magazine is excellent.  I am noting it in the current Crisis.

Very sincerely Yours,

W. E. B. DuBois,
Editor of the Crisis

My dear Dr. Woodson:

Enclosed find my check for $1 for one year’s subscription to THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY.  I am enjoying the reading of the first issue and shall look forward with interest to the coming of each successive one.

With best wishes for the work, I am,

Very truly yours,

T. C. Williams,
Manassas, Va.

My dear Dr. Woodson:

I have read THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY with pleasure, interest, profit and withal, amazement.  The typographical appearance, the size and the strong scholastic historical articles reveal research capacity of the writers, breadth of learning and fine literary taste.  Having been the editor of the Voice of the Negro and knowing somewhat of the literary capacity of the best writers of the race, I cannot but express satisfaction and amazement with this new venture under your leadership.  I sincerely hope and even devoutly pray that this latest born from the brain of the Negro race may grow in influence and power, as it deserves, to vindicate for the thinkers of the race their claim to citizenship in the republic of thought and letters.  Count upon me as a fellow worker.

Yours sincerely,

J. W. E. Bowen
Vice-President of Gammon Theological Seminary

My Dear Dr. Woodson:

I have examined with interest the first number of THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY, which you so kindly sent me.  It is a credit to its editors and contributors and I hope it may continue to preserve high standards and to prosper.

Sincerely yours,

Frederick J. Turner,
Professor of American History in Harvard University

My dear Dr. Woodson:

I am obliged to you for your copy of THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY and am interested in knowing that you have undertaken this interesting work.  I shall endeavor to see that it is ordered for our library.  I should suppose that if you could manage to float it and keep it going for a few years, at least, that it would have considerable historical value.