Letter to Oscar W. Price from Colonel Charles Young
National Museum of African American History and Culture

Letter to Oscar W. Price from Colonel Charles Young

Brigadier General Charles Young, American, 1864 - 1922 · July 14, 1918

ink on paper
National Museum of African American History and Culture
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of African American History and Culture

A handwritten letter in black ink on yellowed paper. The letter consists of two folded pages, with the front left side blank. The letter is dated July 14, 1918 and addressed [My dear Oscar]. In the letter, Young offers an explanation for his refusal to write a recommendation letter for Price, writing [I did this for your good, in order that everything that comes to you may be on your own merit].

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