The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.1, page xxxix, in Introduction, U. of Illinois Press

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I N TRO D U C T 10 N Washington and Park were in Europe on a tour of observation and to write another book. They left to Emmett Scott the judgment of final changes in My Larger Education suggested by Doubleday, Page and Company. Washington told Scott to ''let Col. Roosevelt see the part that refers to him and see if he has any suggestions about it.'' He added for emphasis: ''I think you will have to see him about it.''~° It is not known what Roosevelt said, but he could not have objected to the flattering portrait of him as the white benefactor in Washington's book. Washington and Park returned from Europe in time to add several new chapters to the serialized ones. Park wrote most of the heavier portions, and Washington lightened them with ''live, telling anecdotes.'' Washington himself took time to correspond with Oswald Garrison Villard, grandson of William Lloyd Garrison and editor of the New York Evening Post, about the reference to him in the book. Despite their growing differences during the preceding decade, with consummate tact Washington gave a flattering report of VilIard. Washington's original draft, however, which he sent to Village for editing, contained the phrase ''Mr. Viliard is not a practical business man,'' and went on to stress his championship of Negroes and his idealistic espousal of causes in general. Villard insisted that the passage should be altered to read ''Mr. VilIard is primarily not a business man.'' He reminded Washington, and asked him to mention, that VilIard had raised more than $ ~ 50,000 for Tuskegee as a memorial to William H. Baldwin, Jr., a trustee wha.was primarily a businessman. By the time of My Larger Education, Viliard had rather completely abandoned the Tuskegee and Booker T. Washington approach to race problems and had become a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Washington wrote in his sketch: ''Perhaps I ought to add in fairness that, while I sympathize fully with Mr. Villard's purposes, I have frequently differed with him as to the methods he has used to accomplish them.'' Washington's sentence following that originally read: ''In such cases he has riot hesitated to criticise me both publicly in his newspaper and privately in conversation.'' VilIard, who &°BTW to Scott from Skibo Castle, Scotland, Sept. a, two, Con. 54, Sept. 3, 19TO, Con. 596, BTW Papers, DLC. 81BTW to Park, Feb. a, 19~, Park to BTW, Feb. 5, 19~, Con. 54, BTW Papers, DLC. xxx~x