The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 531, May 1889, U. of Illinois Press

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MAY · I 889 invitations to Southern people pretty freely—especially the colored people. Shall try to send some flags and bunting. Send ''S L. ['']1 regularly to Mr. Wm. Minot Jr.2 39 Court St. Boston, Mass. Better have Florence Taylor's3 father arrange about excursion rates from Pensacola and Mr. Bedford about Montgomery. Mr. Bedford has done it well heretofore. Yours Hastily B. T. Washington ALS Con. ~ BTW Papers ATT. ~ Southern Letter. 2 William Minot, fir. (~8 -~goo) was a Boston lawyer. His brother was the distinguished Harvard biologist Charles Sedgwick Minot ~ ~ 85~- ~ 9 ~ 4) . 3 Florence B. Taylor (Mrs. D. J. Cunningham) was an 1889 graduate of Tuskegee who lived in Pensacola, Fla., where she was a housekeeper and a teacher. The Inscription on the Tombstone of Olivia A. Davidson Washington ~Tuskegee, Ala., May 9, 1889] Olivia Davidson Washington June ~ I, ~ 854 May 9, 1889 ''She lived to the truth.'' Tombstone in Tuskegee Institute Cemetery, Tuskegee, Ala. To Samuel Chapman Armstrong Tuskegee Alabama. May ~ 8-~ 889 My dear good friend Gen Armstrong, What a comfort your dear good letter is to me in this hour of my deepest grief. I thank you a thousand times for it. 53