The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.10, page 239, Dec. 1909, U. of Illinois Press

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DECEMBER . l 9o9 To George Woodward M7ickersham [Boston, Mass.] December 3, 1909 Personal and Confidential My dear Attorney General Wickersham: You are doubtless aware of the fact that Mr. Robert H. Terrell, a colored man, is at present one of the Municipal Judges in the District of Columbia, and that his time expires on December gist when he comes up for reap pointment. Mr. Terrell is one of the very highest type of colored men in the country. He is a graduate of Harvard University, has practiced law in the District of Columbia and has held the position which he now holds for a period of three or four years. Enclosed I send you at his request letters written by lawyers in Washington who have practiced before his court, in which they give their opinion of him. Mr. Terrell has the happy faculty of making friends with all people of both races with whom he comes in contact. I very much hope that you can see your way clear to decide to reappoint him to his present position. ~ call your attention to the further fact that many of the lawyers in Washington who have signed Judge Terrell's endorsement are not only Democrats but are Southern men. Yours truly, Booker T. Washington] TLc Con. got BTW Papers DLC. ~ Wickersham replied that Terrell in a visit to his office had made a favorable impression, but he enclosed a copy of a complaint against Terrell, saying: ''If the facts are as stated in that complaint, he ought not to be reappointed.'' The complaint was that Newell, as a director of the bankrupt Capitol Savings Bank, had made no effort to repay depositors, including ''poor washer women and laboring men of ho race.'' (Dec. 9, Tog, Con. got, BOW Papers, DLC, enclosing without signature a copy of a letter dated Dec. I, 1909.) From James Carroll Napier Nashville, Tenn. Dec. 3rd, Dog Dear Mr. Washington: I am constantly stopped as I pass through the streets and public buildings of Nashville by persons who wish 239