The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 128, May 1881, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers stoners representing the state's interests on the board. BTW wrote that Campbell ''was never appealed to when he was not willing to extend all the aid in his power.'' (Up from Slavery, chap. 7.) At crucial times in BTW's career, Campbell gave the black educator fatherly, conservative advice. Later members of Campbell's family continued to aid the institution. Campbell died in ~ 905. 2 BTW remembered that the commissioners, apparently unable to believe that a black man was capable of such a responsibility, asked Armstrong to recommend one of his white teachers. George W. Campbell wrote first to I. T. Murfee of the Marion Military Institute, where Campbell had sent two of his sons to be educated. Campbell asked Murfee to recommend one of his graduates. ''. . . I thanked him for the compliment,'' Murfee said many years later, ''but told him that I [had] not prepared any man for that work, and I did not approve of the methods of any negro schools in the States, excepting the one at Hampton, Va., under Gen. Armstrong....'' As Murfee recalled, he advised Campbell to ask the general for his best graduate. (Letter of T. T. Murfee to Charles W. Thompson, May go, 1909, in Washington Post, June a, 1909, and in Montgomery Advertiser, June 5, 1909. See also BTW's account of the correspondence in Up from Slavery, chap. 7.) 3 Armstrong probably intended ''first-rate,'' or possibly ''fine.'' 4 According to BTW, Up from Slavery, chap. 7, they replied in substantially these words: ''Booker T. Washington will suit us. Send him at once.'' An Article in the Southern Workman Hampton, Va., May ~ 88 ~] INCIDENTS OF INDIAN LIFE Al, HAMPTON: BEARS HEART2 RETURNS TO THE WEST Six years ago, Bears Heart left the Indian Territory, a United States army prisoner, clad in a blanket and moccasins, with his long hair flowing down his back, his ears jingling with ear rings, and his tomahawk and bow and arrows swinging from his side. In this condition he was torn from his friends and sent to Florida where he remained three years a prisoner of war, and the other three years he has been a student at the Hampton Institute. A few days ago he left for his home. But what a change! Instead of his blanket he wears back a neat suit of the school gray uniform decorated with a sergeant's and colorbearer's stripes which he has well earned. Instead of the tomahawk, he takes back a chest of carpenter's tools; instead of his bow and arrows, he takes the bible and many other good volumes. I ~ 8