The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 243, Nov. 1883, U. of Illinois Press

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NOVEMBER · 1883 I felt that for the sake of the example and the purity of the school it was best to get rid of them both. (Later) Both have now gone. It is unfortunate, but I fee] that it can but little retard the progress of the work which under God we mean to accomplish. I scarcely know where to look for a music teacher. We need some one like Hamilton.2 In the class room Mr. Parrott was a success and the students will lose. I am glad to hear that Miss Davidson is making such a good start. We have received $ loo. from Slater Fund to help purchase a windmill. At my request Mr. Bedford3 of Montgomery goes Tuesday to see Dr. Haygood in the interest of the school. I wrote the Gen'] some days ago telling him that since Mr. H. C. Armstrong promised me that he would speak at the meetings, I have received a card from him stating that it will be impossible for him to leave the state during Dec. I have not heard from the Gent since I wrote. I am very anxious to know what to do. Mr. Fosters thinks that Congressman Herbert5 from Montgomery will go, and that he will produce about as good an effect as Mr. Armstrong. Not hearing from the Gent I do not know whether to see Col. Herbert or not. I have written Mr. Bedford to learn Mr. Armstrong's final decision, but Mr. Bedford says that Mr. A. has not been in Montgomery for a week. Please write any information. We all fee] much anxiety about Mrs. Marshall and Miss Kimball6 and hope that they may soon be well. Sincerely yours ALS BTW Folder President's Office Vault ViHaI. B. T. Washington ~ George T. Angell, president of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, established Bands of Mercy in the South. In 1883 a Band of Mercy was formed at Hampton Institute, and the parent society supplied star badges inscribed with the pledge of the society to all the members. 2 Robert H. Hamilton. 3 Robert Charles Bedford. 4 Wilbur F. Foster. 5 Hilary Abner Herbert (~834-~9~9), a former Confederate colonel and a Democrat, represented Alabama in Congress for eight terms following Reconstruction (~877-93) before serving as Secretary of the Navy under Grover Cleveland (~89397~. A spokesman for southern conservatives, he edited a collection of essays supporting sectional recalcitrance (Why the Solid South [~890]~. In Moo he addressed the Montgomery Race Conference in favor of disfranchisement of Negroes and of poor and uneducated whites. 6 Emily Kimball, Mrs. Marshall's niece, was born in Massachusetts. Her age was recorded as twenty-seven in the census of :880. She taught at Hampton Institute from 1877 to 1880. She died in Boston in 1885. 243