The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.10, page 573, Feb. 1911, U. of Illinois Press

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FEBRUARY . 19] ~ wish to write you now to tell you how really pleased I am at what you said of me in the WorId's Work.2 It seems to me that taking into account what was said and who said it I could imagine nothing that I would prize more or desire more to have my children read. Of course a man ought not to concern himself over-much with either praise or blame, and I do not think that I do. Still, it is very pleasing to know that those whom you respect and whose judgment you value believe that you have acted well. For ordinary applause and ordinary blame I do not care a rap either ~ray; but I do value the good opinion of the best citizens; and therefore I value yours. 'with regards, Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt TLS Con. 438 BTW Papers DLC. On stationery of the Outlook. ~ At a conference between BTW and the Outlook staff a few days earlier. 2 BTW praised Roosevelt as ''the highest type of all-round man that I have ever met.'' (World's Work, 21 [Feb. 19~], ~4035.) From Oswald Garrison Viliarct New York February 7, ~ 9 Dear Mr. Washington: I have been delayed in answering your letter of January Both by illness at home and a great rush of work. I have perused it with the greatest interest and while I do not wish to continue the discussion in any detail, there are one or two things that I would like to say. I realize, of course, that Mr. Milholland has his weaknesses, but he is a tried friend of human liberty and has worked unselfishly and still is working unselfishly according to his lights, to help on the race. You certainly used to find his friendship of value. As to the analogy of the present situation with 1859, I should never have asked you to state in Europe that the race was not making progress as a result of its freedom, because we all know that it is making tremendous strides. But I do not think that bad conditions should be glossed over. I think every leader of the race, for instance, ought to come out and denounce in unmitigated terms the movement towards segregation in Baltimore, now ham 573