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NOVEMBER · 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall Tuskegee, Ala., Nov. 28, 1881 Dear Gen: Your letter of the hard inst. containing your check for $ ~ oo.oo coming from Mrs. Hemenway, is received. Tuskegee Normal School can never forget its Northern friends. Miss Davidson has written Mrs. Hemenway a letter of thanks. With this generous gift we are able to complete our payment on the land, however this will not cause us to slacken our efforts in doing all we can for ourselves. Miss Davidson deserves all the good things which Mrs. Hemenway says of her. Please find enclosed my check for $19.00 which I believe is the teal. due on your loan. Sincerely yours B. T. Washington ALS BIT Folder President's Once Vault ViHaI. To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall Tuskegee, Ala., Nov. A, ~ 88 ~ Dear Gen: Enclosed you will find a letter which I have just received from Mr. Pierce. If hard work and perseverance will do it we will try to come up to his proposition.2 It is very encouraging to know that our friends are so interested in us. Thanks for your direction about the paper. Shall send to Mr. Betts2 for it. Please return letter. Sincerely yours B. T. Washington I send you today a copy of State Supt's last report. ALS BTW Folder President's Once Vault ViHaI. The acknowledgment by BTW here of ''your direction about the paper'' establishes the correspondent as Marshall. BTW had written Marshall eight days earlier requesting information on paper supplies. (BTW to Marshall, Nov. 2 I, :88~, ibid.) The proposition is further explained in BTW to Southern Workman, Dec. 18, 188~. 2 Charles W. Betts, of Wilmington,. Del., became manager of the Normal School Press at Hampton in October 188~. I57