The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 240, Oct. 1883, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WAS HINGTON Papers When I saw him he had not received your letter and said that he would let you know definitely about the date aftering receiving your letter. He seemed much pleased with the idea. I am sure that he will make a fine impression. He is a man of fine physique and an excellent speaker. By all means T wish that you would arrange it so that he can visit Hampton. That within itself will make him c5 per cent a more valuable man. Dr. Haygood has given us a wind-mill. All are well. School is very full. Faithfully yours B. T. Washington ALS BTW Folder President's Once Vault ViHaI. To the Editor of the Southern Workman Tuskegee, Ala. October ~ 8, ~ 883 Editor Southern Workman: Our third session began September fist. The attendance is larger than ever. The students represent a much larger area of the State, and are of a much better quality than at any time since the organization of the School. For the first time, the students now board on the School grounds. The girls are reasonably well cared for in Porter Hall; the boys are in temporary quarters. To start a Boarding Department, with almost no money, has been indeed ''making bricks without straw''; and, had not some of us been at Hampton in its childhood, and experienced eating with no table-cloth, drinking corn coffee from yellow bowls, seeing wheat bread but once a week, and sleeping in tents, we doubt if our faith would have brought us through thus far. Our students are manly, and endure privations and inconveniences in a good spirit. The girls have made the sheets and the bed-ticks, and the boys some of the furniture. We hope that most of the days that ''try men's souls,'' and women's, too, are over; yet we do have much anxiety about the boys standing the winter in their present poor quarters with the few blankets we are able to give them. However, the advantage of having the students together counteracts, in a great measure, the disadvantages under which we labor. The spirit of labor is growing, and there is not a student on the place lo