The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.12, page 54, Nov. 1912, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers ~ am going to consult with several persons as to the relative qualification of the two men. ~ hope that we may be able to give Tuskegee some assistance but cannot pledge any particular amount until ~ have consulted with the Board. Very truly yours, Anson Phelps Stokes TLS Con. 464 BOW Papers DLC. From Whitefield McKiniay, Francis James Grimke, and Archibald Henry Gr~mke Washington, D.C ., NOV. 18, 1912 Dear Dr. Washington: We have talked together relative to your plan to raise funds for the Douglass home, and we agree that it Is very good as far as it goes. It does not seem to us however that you will be able to raise the necessary sum by that means alone, to lift the mortgage of $4000. on the estate. And if the estate is to be saved to the race the mortgage ought to be canceDed at an early date. We had hoped that you would have raised that sum long ago as you yourself were once confident of doing. We wish now most earnestly to remind you of your promise in this regard, and to make to you as serious an appeal as it is possible to make, that you raise the sum of $4000. or $5000. for the home and so save it for the race; and that should you fad] to raise it from the Colored people next October, and we think you will fail, then that you get it from the Whites as you more than once hinted that you could and would if the Colored people did not give it. Can't you interest Mr. Carnegie or Mr. Rosenwald or some philanthropic woman In such a Memorial with its high educational value to the race? And if you can will you please do so at the earliest possible day? We ask this of you because we have always believed that you can do it and believe it still, and because you undertook to do it, we believe also, for the sake of Mr. Douglass and for the love you bear the race. Pray Dr. Washington, if you mean to fulfill your promise, please do so quickly, for we are in sore need of help, and if you no longer 54