The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.12, page 129, Mar. 1913, U. of Illinois Press

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MARCH · I9l3 There Is not one single place referred to in the book as having been visited which he did not visit personally. Upon many of these excursior~s he was not even accompanied by Dr. Park. ~ am not writing, as you understand, for public denial, as Dr. Washington's general attitude, as ~ think you know, is not to spend his time and strength in malting explanations or denials; if he did, he would be able to do little constructive work. The writer remembers that a report was put in circulation something to the effect that he did not write ''Up From Slavery.'' ~ do not think Mr. Washington has ever denied the falsity of this report and he is not likely to do so. The reason for the circulation of such malicious reports must be entirely obvious to you. Thanking you for the friendly spirit in which you write, and for the interest you have always shown in Tuskegee Institute, ~ am: Yours very truly, Emmett J. Scott TLS Joel E. Spingarn Collection DHU. A press copy is in Con. 487, BOW Papers, DLC. From Robert Ezra Park Columbia, S.C. Ma rch ~ ~ 9 ~ 3 My dear Mr Washington: ~ came down here last night, on my way from Denmark to Cambria Va, to have a tale with State Superintendent of Schools Swearingen and some of his assistants. ~ came here on the advice of Niels Christensen, who Is a State Senator and, as you know, a trustee of the Port Royal School, at Beaufort. There has been a great fight here over the school appropriation. Senator Christensen has been a leader ~ that fight and the legislature has finally passed the one mill tax over his veto. They did that today while ~ was in the senate chamber. Swear~ngen Is a good man. He has something of the bluster in hnn of the typical Southerner but he believes in education and at heart Is in sympathy with every honest effort of the Negro to better h~rnself. He said at once that the Denmark School was the best Negro school in the state. He said that the school at Aiken—~ do not recall the ~29