The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.11, page 119, May 1911, U. of Illinois Press

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MAY · I 9 I I to me. This Is confidential and ~ hope that you wild be able [to] reach Dr. Washington, at once. Sincerely yours, W. Calvin Chase TLS Con. 4~9 BOW Papers DLC. To Paul Drennan Cravath [Tuskegee, Ala.] April 29, 1 ~ Dear Mr. Cravath: After leaving your office, ~ learned on what seemed to be good authority that UIr~ch Is at work In an effort to secure manufactured and perjured testimony to the effect that on the night that he assaulted me ~ was intoxicated and my actions by reason of the intoxication constituted his justification for assaulting me. ~ think that such a statement as we discussed ought to contain acknowledgement from hnn that ~ was not intoxicated. ~ have certificates from both of the doctors who attended me on the ought I was assaulted that there was no sign of intoxication. Mr. Wilford H. Smith, my personal attorney, will call to see you soon. Yours very truly, Booker T. Washington The statement also ought to have, it seems to me, something to the effect that he has not been paid any money for making the retraction. B. T. W. TLpS Con. 434 BOW Papers DLC. To Charles Dewey Hilles Tuskegee Institute, Alabama May I, 19 Personal and Confidential. My dear Mr. Hilles: It is probable that some colored people, headed by Jesse Lawson of Washington, wiD attempt to see the President 19