The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.10, page 240, Dec. 1909, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers tto] talk about your tour through Tennessee and to comments in the most flattering terms all that you said and did. The colored people and the white alike unite in clecIaring it a great occasion. Judge John W. Judd,~ one of the most noted and prominent members of the Tennessee Bar, and a professor in the Law Department of Vanderbilt University meeting me on the street this morning said, ''I have for a long time been reading Mr. Washington's speeches. I have kept close watch of all he said on his recent tour through Tennessee. He seems simply to be a wonderful man. The effect of his tour through this State will be far reaching and will work an incalculable amount of good among all the people. Napier, come to my office at the Vanderbilt Law School next Tuesday morning. I want to talk at length with you about these matters.'' I shall try to go and hear what he has to say. You have all the people thinking and talking and have done great good. Very truly yours, J. C. Napier ALS Con. 396 BTW Papers DLC. ~ John Walters Judd, born in 1839, after many years as an attorney and federal judge in Tennessee and Utah, practiced law in Nashville (~89~907) and became professor of law at Vanderbilt University in 1907. From Robert Curtis Ogden New York December 3, 1909 My dear Doctor: I have read with very great interest the story of your recent educational campaign in Tennessee and with most especial approval the leading editorial in last night's issue of the Evening Post.t As your campaigns progress through the various Southern states I think they rise constantly in influence and power. In Tennessee especially I think I notice what I have believed In and hoped for these many years, namely that the best South is gaining courage to speak publicly in a pronounced fashion upon the race question. I think you know my views on this subject as I believe I have expressed them to you quite frequently. 240