_Dear Sir_: In reply to your favor of the 3rd inst., with enclosed copy of the affidavit concerning the position of Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner upon the proposed policy of organization for the negroes, I would say that I do not remember ever having come across anything of the kind in my researches concerning Mr. Stevens, nor have I ever heard of it about Mr. Sumner. Very truly yours, Signed. SAML. W. MCCALL. _A Copy of a Letter from Hon. H. C. Lodge._ NAHANT, MASS., September 8, 1920. _My dear Sir_: I have received your letter of the 6th. I have never heard before of the point which you raise in regard to Mr. Sumner and really know nothing about it. As I am separated from my library, which is in Washington, I am sorry that I can give you no information about it, but if you would examine the Life of Charles Sumner by Edward L. Pierce, which is very elaborate and thorough, you would find something about it there, if anywhere. Very truly yours, Signed. H. C. LODGE. HENRY A. WALLACE, ESQ., 245 West 139th St., New York, N. Y. As the native white men of the master class were ineligible to hold office until the new Constitution and the 14th Amendment were ratified and their political disabilities were removed, even had they acted in an advisory capacity to the newly enfranchised Negroes, the Northern men being eliminated, only Negroes and white men of the "cracker" element could have held office and have been elected delegates to the Constitutional Convention. There were some native white men of the "cracker" element in the Constitutional Convention and also in the first legislature elected. Very respectfully, HENRY A. WALLACE. 245 WEST 139TH ST., NEW YORK CITY, January 16, 1921. CARTER G. WOODSON, Ph.D., Editor, THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY, 1216 You St., N. W., Washington, D. C. _Dear Sir:_ In connection with my letter to you of the 11th instant, pertaining to the affidavit of Messrs. Miller and McKinlay relative to the statement made by Mr. Francis Cardoza to them concerning Mr. Sumner and Mr. Stevens, as published in _The Journal of Negro History_ for January, 1920, I respectfully invite your attention to a copy of a letter from Dr. J. W. Burgess, formerly of Columbia University. You will find him listed in "Who's Who in America."