Verified — Primary archival correspondence — supplied scan
The January 2 letter and January 16 telegram offer $25 for at least 500 words on the negative side of compulsory military training. Wilkins’s January 17 reply asks for precise length and deadline; a March 20 reply acknowledges roundtable copies. The earlier workbook’s communism label is incorrect. An offer and acceptance are not proof of final payment.
Date: January–March 1946
Locator: NAACP Records, General Office File, Box IIA449, Negro Digest, folder 3; supplied 91-page PDF; PDF pp. 40–42, 48
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