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JULY · I 9 I 3 dead and the greatest living Negro Editor to be estrainged from each other when the union of two such great forces Repaint and means so much to our people. Being constantly in touch with Mr. Fortune ~ have finally gotten his consent to approach you on this very delicate subject and ~ now fee] that he Is ready to smoke the pipe of peace and make any amends for his part in the estrangement. In your work Up from Slavery Mr. Fortune Is there held up as being one of your best advisers. Is it not possible for that statement to be again true as of yore? In aD these years Mr. Fortune has not said one word to me against you altho ~ have plied him with question after question. He is also ready to make any advance necessary to make the dream of my life one great grand song of reality. Men & Measures almost demand your reunion & it Is the prayer of my heart that you heed the cad. Just one word & ~ am through. Forgive my presumption for writing this letter, but one great consuming desire compelled it. May ~ have a word from you?3 Most respectfully, Thos B Patterson ALS Con. 930 BTW Papers DLC. Written on stationery of the Emancipaiion Proclamation Commission of Pennsylvania. ~ Thomas B. Patterson, born in Columbia, S.C., in 1866, graduated from Hampton Institute in 1890. After working for the school's Hemenway Fann for several months, he moved to Philadelphia. 2 Fortune had written to Patterson: ''If you think the race needs a closer relationship, personal, between Dr. Washington and myself, and thousands of the race think so, 'do what seemeth good in thy sight' in the case. Personally, I think as much of Dr. Washington as I ever did, and appreciate and sympathize as much in the hard task he has of helping the race and leading it into the better life.'' (Undated enclosure in Fortune's hand, cat June 19~3, Con. 930, BTW Papers, DLC. ) 3BTW replied to Patterson: ''I do not regard myself as being estranged from Mr. Fortune, and I do not know as he regards himself as being estranged from me in any matter of mutual interest. I am sure we shall be able in the future as in the past to work together.'' (July At, 19~3, Con. 930, BTW Papers, DLC.) ~7