The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 247, Feb. 1884, U. of Illinois Press

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FEBRUARY · 1884 I now plan to spend the whole of March North if possible, and attend the meeting in Washington on the 18 of March. On my return April first Miss Davidson will probably go North if able and spend April & May. In addition I expect to make a summer campaign among the smaller towns. What do you think of the plan? Should like your advice as to the best way and place of spending my time during March. The meetings are still bearing fruit. We shall be glad to see Miss Mackie.t Things are going well. Please have speech sent at once. Yours B. T. Washington ALS BTW Folder President's Office Vault ViHaI. Presumably one of the sequence of letters to Armstrong discussing arrangements for fund raising in the North. (See BTW to Armstrong, Oct. As, ~4, :883, Feb. :8, Apr. c9, 1884.) ~ Mary F. Mackie visited Tuskegee in the spring of 1884 and wrote back that the school reminded her of Hampton twelve years earlier: ''The teachers here laugh themselves over their exact imitation of the alma mater....'' In some respects, however, she thought Tuskegee had ''improved upon us.'' She was particularly struck by the plantation melodies which BTW called for after evening prayers: ''Their rendering makes ours seem artificial; there is more of the real wail in their music than I ever heard.'' (Southern Workman, ~ 3 [Apr. ~ 884], 43. ~ To the Editor of the Southern Workman Tuskegee, Ala., Feb. lath, 1884 Dear Workman: No less than ten hands went up in the chapel a few nights ago, in answer to the inquiry among the young men as to how many had been frost-bitten during the cold weather. At this showing, the teachers were not surprised, for on more than one night when some teacher was making a tour of the rooms at a late hour, to give a comforting word when there were no more blankets to give, have the young men been found hovering around the fire while the cold wind poured in from the roof, sides and floor of the room. Sitting up with overcoats around them was preferable to going to bed. While there has been this suffering, yes, I say suffering, so anxious have the students been to remain in school, that there has been almost not a murmur of complaint, but on the other hand they have shown cheerfulness throughout. The school does not own the shanties in which the young men stay, 247