The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.12, page 154, Apr. 1913, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers some fact, some practical idea upon the minds of a large number of intelligent, ambitious and progressive young people. He seemed not to have discovered this opportunity and during his three hours failed utterly to offer a single word of advice or course! touching the practical side of the life which these young people will soon have to face. His paramount aim seemed to be to show that he had profound learning and had made deep research. No thought of the influence he might exert in shaping the lives or activities of his hearers seems ever to have entered his mind. He simply showed ''Zearning.'' After it was over and Mrs. Napier and ~ came to compare notes we agreed that there was little or no benefit to be derived from' these lectures; and that one of your speeches of an hour's lend wood result in greater benefit to the race and to all who might hear it than a whole month of such recitals would bring. Hoping that 'you have had both a profitable and pleasant trip to the West and that you have returned home in safety, ~ remain, Very truly yours, I. C. Napier TLS Con. 483 BTW Papers DLC. ~ In regard to Du Bois's lectures, BTW replied: ''I am not at all surprised to note what you write, because it is exactly in line with what I have heard from other sources in the general content of his lectures on 'The History of the Negro Race.''' BTW thanked Napier for ''what you and Mrs. Napier write with reference to myself.'' (Apr. 4, 19~3, Con. 483, BTW Papers, DLC.) To the Editor of the New York Age Portland, Ore., April 2 t~9~3] The white people who amount to most In the States of Washington and Oregon are for the most part those who have gone from the New England States, the Middle States or the far South. I have been constantly surprised since entering Washington and Oregon at the number of Southern white people ~ have met. One of the finest and most liberal white men ~ have met since ~ left home was born in Mississippi and lived there until a few years ago. He moved into Oregon not long ago from the vicinity of Jefferson Davis's old home in ~54