The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.10, page 496, Dec. 1910, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers than Johnson. Please do all in your power to get him away from there at once. He is not only my warm friend, but a man of such splendid scholastic attainments and gentlemanly deportment, that I shall never rest until he is given a suitable post. I hope you will take up his case at once and push it with your accustomed vigor, for in so doing you will be obeying the scriptural injunction to lend a helping hand when a neighbor's ass falls in a ditch. Yours truly, TLS Con. 49 BTW Papers DLC. Charles W. Anderson iLloyd Carpenter Griscom (~87~-~9~9), a lawyer, newspaperman, and diplomat, served in a number of diplomatic posts including minister to Japan from 1909 to 1906, ambassador to Brazil from 1906 to 1907, and ambassador to Italy from 1907 to Cog. In Go he became a member of a New York law firm and county chairman of the Republican party and was largely responsible for the dispensing of patronage in New York City. a Probably Claude Ivan Dawson (b. 1877) of the consular service. In 19~z he was consul at Puerto Cortes, Honduras, about loo miles from Corinto. 3 Wilbur John Carr (b. 1870), a lawyer, was chief of the consular bureau in the State Department beginning in 1902. In 1909 he was appointed director of the consular service. To Thomas Jesse Jones Hotel Manhattan, New York. Dec. ad, lo My dear Dr. Jones: Thank you for your kind note of November ~6th. I am answering it briefly. I do not know where the clipping came from that you sent me regarding the dews and Russia. What I did say or attempted to say was this, that in Russian Poland there is a law which prevents the Jew from curling his hair. I do not think this law applies to the whole of Russia. As you know, Poland is divided up into three parts; a part belonging to Austria, a part belonging to Germany, and another part belonging to Russia. I am quite sure that a close examination into the matter will show that I am right so far as Russian Poland is concerned. You know, perhaps, that in the ~ewish centers such as Cracow the Jews almost without exception wear their hair long and curl it on each side. I shall be glad! to hear 496