Editorial Rooms of
					The Crisis
					70 Fifth Avenue, New York


National Association
    for the
Advancement of Colored People

                                                      W.E. Burghardt Du Bois

Personal

								January 21, 1916.

My Good Friend:

		I hope you will never
hesitate to write me quite frankly anything
you think or hear.  I appreciate this
deeply from any of my friends, but particularly
from you.

		Ever since I came to New
York there has been a determined effort on
the part of some parties to interfere with
my work or spoil my career.  I have been
warned of detectives being on my track looking
for lists of white women with whom I was
going, and various other things.  I have,
however, gone frankly upon my way with very
few incidents which I would alter or be in
any way ashamed of.

		Of course, the real difficulty
lies in the fact that I am a wretched mixer
and have an unfortunately difficult time ad-
justing myself to new acquaintances.  Some-
thing  of the same sort happened when I went
to Atlanta.  It was four or five years before
people got over believing extraordinary
caricatures of my real self.  In New York
particularly I have been frank with my inter-


			

Charles Young Collection

Letter from W.E.B. DuBois to Charles Young