The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.10, page 434, Oct. 1910, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers Please accept the congratulations of Mrs. Myers and myself upon your safe return and the honors bestowed upon you while abroad. I received an invitation to the New York Banquet, but it arrived too late for me to attend or even to send my contribution. I carefully note what you say relative to the Clevelancl contingent that attended the Business League and their invitation for the League to meet in Cleveland. You did well not to accept and do not contemplate coming to Cleveland until the matter shall have been thoroughly canvassed. Cleveland as you know is a hard town to work, because we have no wealthy citizens who stand in the spot light as the champion of the brother or his cause and no colored ones who will spend a dollar for anything to further the interest of the race. Every effort put forth by the Cleveland Association of Colored Men I have had to finance and in order to be successful, have been compelled to appeal to a few charitable or philanthropic white friends. To the matter upon which you wrote I have to say ''Let not your heart be troubled.'' Your friend Mr. Chesnutt came to me with his proposition for a meeting, I told him it would be impossible for him to have a meeting in Cleveland if it was known that this Association, of which he was a part was antagonistic to Dr. Washington. He declared it was not ant! pointed to the fact that Mr. and Mrs. Villard were introduced by you and spoke to the Business League upon your invitation and gave me to understand while they labored along other lines they were in perfect accord with you. I sent him to Wm. R. Green, President of the Cleveland Association of Colored Men and told Mr. Green to give him a meeting. Mr. Chesnutt came in to say that he was at loss to entertain Mr. and Mrs. Walling2 particularly so as they desired a mixed meeting and wanted to get in touch with the white people of the community who were friendly to the brother. He further said that he would have a few gentlemen meet Mr. Walling at his office. He invited the whole membership of the Cleveland Association of Colored Men to his residence to meet Mr. and Mrs. Walling. It being Saturday night neither Mrs. Myers nor myself attended. I received full particulars the next day. After an informal discussion of the brother, John P. Green suggested Mr. Chesnutt for a chairman that their discussion might be 434