The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.10, page 143, July 1909, U. of Illinois Press

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JULY . 1909 people with whom he has come in contact by trying to get money from them. I do not know what it is he has against me, except he cannot use me to carry out his selfish purposes. He is a fellow that nobody has any confidence in who knows him. He has no influence with anybody that I know of in Alabama. Yours very truly, tBooker T. Washington] TLc Con. 48 BOW Papers DLC. An Adciress by William Taylor Burwell Williams t on Washington's Tour of Virginia Hampton, Ala.] July 4, Hog WITH DR. WASHINGTON THROUGH VIRGINIA It has been my good fortune to accompany Dr. Booker T. Washington on two trips this year. I went with him through South Carolina in March, and a few days ago I spent a week with him on his tour through Virginia and West Virginia. Both of these trips were full of interest. Indeed it is an interesting experience just to be with Dr. Washington, to see him at close range under normal conditions and to study him as a most effective speaker before ever varying audiences, and to learn something of the spirit that underlies his work. In South Carolina we went to a number of the larger cities of the state, and were confined to no particular section. On the recent Virginia and West Virginia trip we passed through but few cities and were limited to the Virginian Railroad. We saw fewer colored men in Virginia who own farms of five hundred or a thousand acres than we did in South Carolina. There were, however, more colored landowners in Virginia, and the average value of their lands per acre is higher than that in South Carolina. In Virginia, too, the colored farmers grow more diversified crops, especially outside of the tidewater section. The trip was made over the Virginian Railroad, recently built by the late Mr. Henry H. Rogers. For a new road it is the best I 143