The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.11, page 301, Sept. 1911, U. of Illinois Press

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SEPTEMBER · ~ 9 ~ ~ missed, he wiD get severe punishment. Can you see the hand? ~ think you can. Please destroy this, that it may not fall under another eye unless it Is Emmett's. ~ wiD attend to Harrison. If he escapes me, he is a dandy. Hastily Yours, Charles W. Anderson ALS Con. 52 BTW Papers DLC. ~ Hubert H. Harrison was a prominent black radical of Harlem. Born in the Virgin Islands, he moved to New York in the early years of the twentieth century. A socialist, a student of African history, and a defender of the black racial heritage, he conducted formal lectures on what he called the ''Harlem School of Social Science.'' The Hubert H. Harrison Memorial Church in Harlem honors his memory. (Osofsky, Harlem, ~ 32-33. ) 2 Anderson reported the dismissal of Harrison with mock regret. (See Anderson to BTW, Oct. 30, ~ 9 ~ I, below. ~ To James F. Oysters [Tuskegee, Ala.] September ~ I, ~ 9 Dear Sir: I have been away from my mail considerably lately and this accounts for my failure to write you more promptly. ~ can state unreservedly that the reference in my World's Work article was not at all to Mr. Bruce, who was Director of our Academic Department, and not the person in charge of the Division of Education as my article states. Mr. Bruce, ~ fee] quite sure, well understands to whom reference is made in the particular article to which you refer.2 Mr. Bruce served this institution as Director clef the Academic Department for three or four years and voluntarily resigned to take the position to which he had been elected as Supervising Principal of Colored Schools of Washington. I very much hope that no harm may come to Mr. Bruce by reason of the article to which you refer and which has been cited as expressing my lack of confidence in him. I still have the utmost confidence in Mr. Bruce, both as an educator and as a man, and believe that the interests of the colored schools of Washington could not be under the direction of a more competent or a more conscientious executive. ~ have watched his course there with much interest, and believe he is rendering a service that is in every way 3o~