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APRIL · 1887 your friend decides to come, for your friend to write just the size house he wants and whether he would like it located on the edge of town and near the school or near the center of town. We shall all be glad to do what ever we can to encourage him to locate his family here and should they come shall do our best to make them happy here. Yours Hastily B. T. Washington ~ o6 students have bacon Christians within the last few weeks. ALpS Con. BTW Papers DLC. ~ William Jenkins, born in Pickens, S.C., in 1860, spent three years at Fisk University and one at Hampton, where he graduated in 188~. He taught for one year in Jordan, S.C., before coming to Tuskegee Institute in 1883 to teach mathematics and direct the band. He left Tuskegee in 1885 to teach in Tennessee and Arkansas, returned in 1887, but left again in 1888 to work at Fisk. Later he was a clerk in the Surgeon General's office in Washington and then became a registrar and receiver's clerk in the U.S. Land Office in Montgomery. He died in Montgomery in 1902. 2 Lewis Adams. From Samuel Chapman Armstrong Hampton, Va., April 9 1887 My dear Washington I am very glad to hear of the good work at Tuskegee. It is wonderful, & I hope the roots of correction will strike deep into the hearts of all in the school, and an abiding permanent good be wrought. Please tell the students that we at Hampton are deeply interested in the revival at Tuskegee & fee] that God has favored them with a blessed visitation of His Spirit. I am constantly glad I have seen your work & hope that it will in every way prosper. With kindest regards to your wife believe me ALS Con. 85 BTW Papers DLC. 337 Yours sincerely S. C. Armstrong