g heard of you through a friend of mine, I
thought that I would write asking you to please send me full
information as to conditions and chances for the advancement of
the negro in the north.

I am seeking for the opportunity and chance of advancement as far
as my ability is capable as I am a negro my self.

I would like very much to get in touch with you if think that you
can give me some assistance along the line which I have spoken.

MIAMI, FLA., May 4, 1917.

_Dear Sir_: Some time ago down this side it was a rumour about
the great work going on in the north. But at the present time
every thing is quite there, people saying that all we have been
hearing was false until I caught hold of the Chicago Defender I
see where its more positions are still open. Now I am very
anxious to get up there. I follows up cooking. I also was a
stevedor. I used to have from 150 to 200 men under my charge.
They thought I was capable in doing the work and at the meantime
I am willing to do anything. I have a wife and she is a very good
cook. She has lots of references from the north and south. Now
dear sir if you can send me a ticket so I can come up there and
after I get straightened out I will send for my wife. You will
oblige me by doing so at as early date as possible.

_Dear Sirs_: I am now looking for a location and am a man hunting
work and there is so many has left the South for the north and
Seemes as they are all gone to one place now please send the
names of some firms that wants labor i am a Man who Beleave in
right and Beleave in work and has worked all of my days and mean
to work till i die and Never been No kind of trouble and never
has to be made work.

Now i will Cloes, hoping to here from you Soon Yours Very Truly,

NEW ORLEANS, LA., 4/24/17

_Dear Sirs_: Being desirous of leaving the South for the
beterment of my condition generaly and seeking a Home Somewhere
in Ill' Chicago or some other prosperious Town I am at sea about
the best place to locate having a family dependent on me for
support. I am informed by the Chicago Defender a very valuable
paper which has for its purpose the Uplifting of my race, and of
which I am a constant reader and real lover, that you were