MS01.01.01 - Box 01 - Folder 04 - General Correspondence, 1972 October - December

30 Kent Road, Wynberg, Cape. R.S.A. 25th October, 1972

Dear Professor, Many thanks for your card, it was very nice receiving it from you. I am very pleased that you had a safe journey back home. Your wife and family must have been very pleased to have you back again.

The weather here is fine only very windy but we can expect it, as the South Easter blows here very strong during the summer months. At school we are preparing for our final examinations, and schools close on the 8th December and we return back on 15th January.

Both my husband (George) and I am looking forward to your coming back to Cape Town some time, and we hope that your wife will come along this time. We shall save very hard to come over to see you, but we shall have to go to Australia first, as my daughter is over there. She is married to a Hollander, so they cannot stay here.

Mrs Smith sends her regards, and will write later. By the way, I feel that we became such good friends, that I feel it quite unnessary for you to call me, Mrs. La. Meyer, please make it Cynthia, I hate pomp and ceremony.

Do let me know when it's the best time to spend a holiday over there, summer or winter or during the in between seasons.

Well this is all for the time being. Do write soon.

With kindest regards, Yours sincerely, Cynthia

To David C. Driskell Fisk Univ. Nashville, Tenn

Dear Sir First of all I wish your healthness. As I think when I asked you to talk address from you. You gave me immediately. As I think you wanted to correspond with me. I am also very glad to correspond with you.

First of all I would like to introduce myself. You saw my face and my personlity. I am a student in H.S.I. Comprehensive high school I am 11th grade. I am prepering for Ethiopia school leaving certificate examination. I am interested to study History, and langudge. For example. At 7-11-72 I will start studing American Revolution.

I will hope, you will send me shitses about American Revolution and I would like to remind you. You will send me news papers and other thing. I am sure I will help me because your face is the same as mine. In directly our earliest grand fathe might be the same.

At the same time I would like to introduce my family. My father is a soldier. For a moment - he isn't present in Gondar, because he is fighting against the gurrales that are found in Southern Ethiopia. I have only one sister. She is a teacher in the elementary school.

SIR. In the future I will right everything what you ask me and what are found in Ethiopia. I would like to mention only single point that is you gave me your address on a Sunday

Unfortunatily on Monday I saw you picture in the news paper. when I see you picture I proude, because my friends have another pen friends in U.S.A and other countries. But they are white. But I got a nice pen friend [crossed out the] your face is the [crossed out the] same as me. I am telling to my friends [crossed out I ha] by saying I have a nice pen friend in U.S.A.

Sir I am loooking at your letter & I will hope you will send me.

Yours truly Mulatu Bogale Please read the date as 1-11-72

David C. Driskell Box 817 Foisk University Nashville, TENN U.S.A

Mulatu Bogale H.S.I. Comprehensive secondary school P.O. box - 198 GONDAR Ethiopia

Nov. 9, 1972

Dear Prof. Driskell, You may wonder having a letter from someone you never met. I am an Ethiopian. I have seen you on the day you gave speech at Haile Sellasie University. I enjoyed your speech very much. I have spent two years in the United States, one in travelling, and one studying at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa.

I have seen your city too. (Nashville). I had to discontinue my education at Univ. of Northern Iowa, because of the financial problem. I am interested in pursuing my education at your Univ. so I would be glad if you arrange a tuition grant for me, Please. I will pay for my [crossed out] transportation to and from. Please let me hear from you. My address: WAKWEYA GELETA c/0 St. GABRIEL PHARMACY P.O. BOX 721 ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA

Thank you very much. Sincerely yours Wakweya Galeta

Professor David C. Driskell Department of Art. Fisk University Nashville, Tennessee 37203 U.S.A.

Wakweya Galeta c/o St. Gabriel Pharmacy P.O. Box 721 ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia