The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.12, page 84, Dec. 1912, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers To Naoichi Masaoka: [Tuskegee, Ala.] December 5, 19 ~ 2 My dear Sir: ~ have read with much interest your letter of October ~6th, Am, touching the book you are now engaged in writing concerning America and Americans, the Beikokujin, as you call us. When that book Is published ~ shall certainly hope to read it, or some portion of it, in an English translation. ~ believe that many others beside myself wiD be interested in learning what a Japanese man of affairs and a student,. like yourself, finds worthy of study and observation in this country. ~ have had the good fortune to meet a good many people who have come from other parts of the world to visit this country and study our institutions and have had some opportunity to hear or.read their comments upon conditions in general in America and In particular upon the relations between the races, a matter which naturally- concerns me most. ~ have never yet had an opportunity, however, to get a glimpse of America as it.Iooks through the eyes of a member of the Japanese race, whose point of view we are inclined in America to believe Is totally different from our own. For this and for other more personal reasons, Ict me adcl, there is no people whose opinion of our country ~ should more desire to know. Speaking for the masses of my own race In this country ~ think ~ am safe in saying that there Is no other race living outside of America whose fortunes the Negro people of this country have followed with greater interest or admiration. The wonderful progress of the Japanese people and their sudden rise to the position of one of the great nations of the world has nowhere been studied with greater interest or enthusiasm than by the Negroes of America. In conclusion let me say that ~ am quite certain that in no other race and in no other part of the world have the Japanese people a larger number of admirers and well washers than among the black . . people of the United States. Wishing you every success In your Important literary undertaking, remain: VeIy truly yours, Booker T. Washington TLPS! COD. 46I BTW Papers DISC. Signature initialed by E. J. Scott. 84