The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 147, Sept. 1881, U. of Illinois Press

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SEPTEMBER · 1881 that is encouraging in the work. The students are anxious to improve and they pin themselves down to study without coercion. B. T. Washington Southern Workman, lo (O`ct. 18 ), Bob . ~ Morgan M. Snowden was born in Leesburg, Va., in 1854. He was a member of the Hampton class of ~ 8 and taught school in several Virginia localities. Later he became a railroad porter. In 1888 he married Ellen L. Walker of the Hampton class of 1877 and settled in New York as a janitor. Olivia A. Davidson to Mary Berry Tuskegee, Ala., Sept. ~ 2, ~ 88 My dear Mary; (May ~ call you so?) Miss Trask2 wrote me that you had succeeded in getting a position in your town as teacher and ~ am so glad for you. I suppose you have already begun your work. May you be successful in it and find it pleasant in every way. Dont you fee] sad when you think that now the girls are back again at work at F3 and we are not to return? The thought really makes me homesick at times, but I try to keep it from effecting my work. ~ reached here Aug. ~5, arid found plenty of work to do ~ assure you. Ah, Mary dear, I fee] very very weak when ~ look about me at the work there is to be done. Our school is fast growing. Already there are nearly seventy in attendance and although they are mostly young men and women in age, in their mental acquirements they are far below your average grammar school pupil of the first year. And besides, having come from the most ignorant families most of them are entirely uncultivated in manners and habits and need so much training, and with all this to contend with we must go on and do our school work with nothing outside of ourselves with which to do it not a reference book of any kind belonging to the school! Think of it—a Normal school without even a Dictionary or map of the U.S.!! But I am not going to fill my letter with complaints. I shall try to be grateful that I have so soon found work to do in such great abundance. This reminds me of Emma Coolidge.4 ~ do hope she will be able to get work this year. Write to her. I know it would be such a pleasure for her to get a letter from you for she was very much attached to you ~47