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Letter from Herbert Putnam to Oswald Garrison Villard

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Regarding allegations of race discrimination at the Library of Congress cafeteria, describing his "surprise," as "it is many years since any complaint of the sort has reached me"; writing that standard invitations "to take seats in the adjacent cafe" may be misunderstood "by colored people" and conceding that the practice ought to be discontinued; and noting that the cafeteria is run privately and not by the government.
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