The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 413, Feb. 1888, U. of Illinois Press

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FEBRUARY · 1888 It is our desire to knit gloves and hosiery you of course know the best machine for this purpose. We have already a sewing department and want to start the knitting in connection with this. There will be no trouble in finding a market for what we make, as many articles can be disposed of to our students and the out side community. Starting on a small scale we think we can make it grow into a valuable industry. Some of our teachers were knitters at Hampton and understand how to operate the Lambs machine. We shall not need a stand. Yours truly Booker T. Washington ALpS Con. BTW Papers DLC. ~ Perhaps a machine developed or improved by Joseph Lamb, a Manchester, England, inventor of textile machinery. From Sarah Newlin~ Philadelphia, Feb. 6th t~] Mr. B. T. Washington, My sister and I send each fifteen dollars for the ''matcher'' hoping you will be able to get the balance needed. When you do will you devote the difference between the cost of buying windows and doors and that of making them at the school towards paying your debts for machinery, until they are extinguished? I sympathize with your strong wish to get the machines that save ultimate expense, but am always sorry to hear of debt, unless it can be cleared off at once. I do not understand your commendation of Thweat2 in your paper. He left teaching to publish the very poorest paper ~ ever saw ''The Black Belt'' of which he sent two copies to me. There were all kinds of mistakes all over it misuse of big words ~ ''chimerical'' for chemical in almost the first line ! ~ and an ignorant presence that was pitiful to see. I hope there are but few of your graduates who undertake what they are so incompetent to do. Teaching the rudiments of an English education is' so honourable and useful that it might well satisfy the ambition of any one who has had few advantages, and it is so very much better to do a little thing well, than to do a big thing badly ! 4~3