The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 222, Mar. 1883, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WAS HINGTON Papers have some incidental expenses that we must provide for next. We are now preparing for a concert. I suppose that you all will see Miss Davidson soon. Mrs. Washington and all the teachers desire to be remembered to you and Mrs. M. Yours faithfully B. T. Washington P.S. I enclose a piece concerning Dr. Calloway which I hope you will return when you have read it. ALS BTW Folder President's Once Vault ViHaI. ~ Helen Wilhelmina Ludlow. 2 Isaac H. Vincent' Alabama state treasurer. 3 Wilbur }I. Foster. ~ Morgan Callaway (~83~-99), as correctly spelled. Born into a slaveholding family of Wilkes County, Gal, Callaway graduated from the University of Georgia in 1849 and attended a law school in Augusta. He practiced law and taught at Andrew Female College in Cuthbert, Ga. He served as a colonel of Confederate artillery. After the Civil War he became a Methodist minister for three years in Washington, Gal, and for two years was president of La Grange Female College. In 1870 he joined the faculty of Emory College, Oxford, Gal, as professor of Latin, later changing to professor of English. The historian of Emory called Callaway ''one of the truly great teachers of all her years.'' He became vice-president of the college and was strongly influenced by the moderate racial liberalism of President Atticus G. Haygood. When the General Conference of the Southern Methodist Church voted in 1883 to establish Paine Institute in Augusta, Gal, for the higher education of black Southern Methodists, the reformist faction of the denomination considered it a substantial victory. Callaway left Emory College to' become president of the new school, but when it failed to secure what he considered adequate financial support, he returned to Emory and resumed his professorship. ~ See Bullock, History of Emory University, :60.) 5Atticus Greene Haygood (~839-96) graduated from Emory College in 1859 and during the Civil War served as a Confederate chaplain. After the war he was active in the Southern Methodist Church, serving as editor of the Wesleyan Christian Advocate from 1878 to 1882, and in 1890 he became a bishop of the church. From 1875 to 1884 he served as president of Emory College. He attracted wide attention in 18 with the publication of Our Brother in Black, a collection of his writings calling for the training of blacks as vital to the uplift of the South. Haygood argued that there was an ''essential unity'' among the races of men, challenging the racist doctrines of the time, but he accepted racial segregation and manual training for blacks. His mild racial liberalism, as reflected in Our Brother in Black, led the Slater Fund trustees to choose him as agent in 1883, and between 1884 and 1890 he devoted his full energy to disbursing funds. He did not give away the Slater money in a systematic manner, and, to the chagrin of the board members, often let personal preferences sway him. BTW's ideas attracted him, and he was generous to Tuskegee Institute with Slater money. He left the Slater Fund in 1890, accepting the position of bishop in the church. 6 M. I. Maddox. He taught history and elocution at Tuskegee in the 1883-84 school year. 222