The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 235, July 1883, U. of Illinois Press

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JULY · 1883 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall Tuskegee, Ala., July 23 183 Dear Gen'l: We thank you for extending the time on remainder due you on note. I acknowledged the receipt of Mr. Carrington's~ money. The basement is now being bricked up with brick from our first kiln. We were successful with the kiln though the work, by my absence, was not pushed as it should have been. It is hard to get a good foreman, one who will push hands and who also has a practical idea of all the details of the business. Shall try another man next time. The kiln contained about jo,ooo brick and we have been lucky enough to sell them all except what we are using for the basement. Mr. Varner buys most of them. He will take now more than we have. Another kiln will be begun next week and I expect to see that the work is pushed. One of the merchants puts up a brick store soon as a result of the brick enterprise. It has done much good in many ways. I want to get hold of some letter files and a copying press. Will you be kind enough to advise as to the kind and where to get them. I hope that Mr. Parrott is doing well. I sent you some papers containing accts of our close. You will see that the South deals in highsounding titles. Yes, we have a sweet little girl which adds much to our happiness. With your permission Mrs. W. arid I desire to call her ''Portia Marshall Washington.''2 Sincerely yours We have the receipt book. ALS BTW Folder President's Once Vault ViHaI. B. T. Washington ~ Probably George M. Carrington of West Winsted, Conn., who contributed regularly to Hampton Institute in the early ~ 880s. 2 Portia Marshall Washington Pittman (b. June 6, 1883), BTW's only child by his first wife Fanny, was named Portia after the character in The Merchant of Venice, and Marshall in honor of I. F. B. Marshall. She lost her mother at the age of two and was cared for by nurses until BTW's second marriage to Olivia A. Davidson. Portia was fond of her first stepmother, but at first violently objected to BTW's third marriage to Margaret James Murray, whom she regarded as a rival for the affection of her father. In time, however, she came to respect and admire her second stepmother. Her early adolescence was spent largely away from home. In September 1895 she entered the practice school of Framingham State Normal 235