The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 209, Oct. 1882, U. of Illinois Press

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OCTOBER · 188£ had the same time in the term last year. I fear we shall have to stop admitting them directly. The new building was not ready for us to open in, but we expect to be able to move into it next month. It is very beautiful and the whites seem about as proud Qf it as the colored. The whole cost without furniture is $4sso.oo and I am glad to tell you that it is now all provided for. Mr. Bicknell2 of Boston wrote me a very nice letter in answer to your visit. I have just finished a letter to the ''New England Journal of Education.''3 We have the Meth. & Bap. town schools united now and they are both being taught on our place. Miss Snodgrass4 is assisted by Lucy Smith.5 They will have 300 students making in all on the farm over 4oo. Mrs. Washington is well. All send love. Yours faithfully Booker T. Washington ALS BTW Folder President's Once Vault ViHaI. ~ The John F. Slater Fund. 2 Thomas Williams Bicknell (~834-~925) was editor of the New England Journal of Education from 1875 to 1886. He was Rhode Island Commissioner of Education in 1869. He published and edited several other educational journals and helped to found the National Council on Education in 1880, serving as its first president. He lectured widely on education, temperance, woman suffrage, and municipal reform. 3 See BTW to editor, New England Journal of Education, ~6 (Nov. 9, 188~), c99. The letter summarized the history of Tuskegee Normal School. 4 Margaret E. Snodgrass. 5 Lucy E. Smith was born in Williamsburg, Va., in 1860. She graduated from Hampton in 1879 and taught at several schools before joining the Tuskegee faculty for a year in October 188~. From 1883 to 1885 she was a student teacher at St. Augustine's College, Raleigh, N.C. She married William E. McKenzie, a schoolteacher and fanner, in 1886 and settled in Ettrick, Va. From James Fowle Baldwin Marshall ''Hampton, Va., Oct.] e3 1823 Dear Booker, Yours of lath is recd. Gen A. says you should write to Moses Pierce Esq Norwich for advice as he is a friend of Mr Sclater & of Tuskegee. There will be no appro. paid this year, but your application should be made as soon as Mr P. thinks the time has come. Your cog