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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers JEW. E. Simms of Paris, Ky., sold 4~7 acres of land to Tuskegee Institute for the remarkably low price of $3~2 in 1898. (Deed, Feb. 7, 1898, Deed Book 5, pp. 329-30, Macon County Probate Court, Tuskegee, Ala.) 2 Wilbur F. Foster. 3 BTW to Simms, May 3~, 1887, Con. 9~, BTW Papers, DLC, asked for a quitclaim. A. ,` From David Lee Johnston Pratt Mines Ala.,2 May 3 ~-'87 Dear principal- While thinking of my may tmany?] friends ~ thought ~ would write to you. Myself and several other of the boys from School arived here yesterday, we find plenty of work to do. We will all start to work tomorrow and will have an income of about $30. per month. We are very anxious to here from home and know how every thing is getting along. Mr. Washington, please send me a catalogue ~ want to write to some of the students and ~ dont know where their postoffices are. Much love to all the dear Teachers and Students that are at the building now. I am going to try and put in good time this summer and return to school the last of Sept. with a determination to do better than I have here before. I think ~ can gain some students to come to school nex term, any way I am going to do all ~ can toward the matter. Some have promised me already that they are coming. I shall look for the catalogue. I am Mr Washington, Your obedient student ALS Con. 85 BTW Papers DLC. David L. Johnston ~ David Lee Johnston, born near Tuskegee, spent much of his childhood farming there and in Dallas County. His parents' indigence forced him to work for their support. He entered Tuskegee Institute in 1885 and worked each summer in the mines, furnaces, or railroads in Pratt City, Ala., ''enduring hardships which language can not describe.'' He graduated in 1889 and served as principal of a Negro school in Pratt City until his health temporarily failed. After working for several corporations, he studied pharmacy at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn., and upon graduation in 1896 operated a Birmingham pharmacy as a partner of George H. Wilkerson, a physician. (David L. Johnston, ''A Druggist's Story,'' in BTW, ea., Tuskegee and Its People, a85-98.) 2 The Pratt Mines were in Jefferson County, Ala., near Birmingham. The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company bought the mines in 1886, and its Pratt 356