The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 539, Items from the Hampton Institute Student Account Book, October 1872-June 1875, U. of Illinois Press

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Student Account Book ''Hampton, Va., October 1872-June 18753 Names Cr. Balances Total Cr. Farm Work School Work Cash Miscellaneous Washington Booker T. 2.88 2.88 Washington Booker Washington Booker T. Washington Booker F.1 Washington Booker F. Washington Booker F. Washington Booker F. Washington Booker F. 5.10 ·60 4.50 14.oo r4.So 5.oo To.68 9.00 5.oo Washington Booker F. 2.50 Washington Booker Washington B. Washington Booker Washington Booker Washington Booker Washington Booker Washington Booker Washington Booker Washington Booker I 0.00 4.00 5.00 6.oo 5.oo 5~93 4-75 5.00 4.00 Too 2.50 29.4 I I 0.00 I 0.00 I 0.00 I 0.00 I 0.00 I 0.00 I 0.00 I 0.00 4.4 I I 5.00 I 0.00 I 0.00 I 0.00 IO.I6 IO.00 N.L.3 .I6 I 0.44 23.95 Age Washington Booker I 9 2 1.28 Washington Booker Washington Booker Washington Booker Washington Booker Washington Booker Washington Booker Vashington Booker Vashington Booker IO.00 E.B.4 ·44 7.50 I 6.45 I o.4o E.H.B.5 .48 IO.00 N.L. .40 I 1.88 IO.00 N.L. .76 EHB I.I2 I 2.32 I 0.00 Bill 2.32 I I.IO IO.00 Bill I.IO I 0. 7 2 I 0.00 Bill .7 2 I 1.48 IO.00 Bill 1.48 2.50 2.50 12.28 IO.00 Bill 2.28 6.oo 6.oo D Business Office ViHal. Only the monthly BTW lines are reproduced and the descriptive remarks which follow refer only to pages on which BTW entries appeared. Each page was headed ''Students Accounts for the Month of....'' Until June 1874 the heading was completed correctly with the appropriate month and year. Thereafter the recorder also included the last day of the month, as, ''October 3:st 1874.'' The ''Date of arrival'' column heading was handwritten and appeared above the first column only in October of 1872; there were no headings above the arrival entries in the reports for October 1873 and October 1874 or the departure entry in June 1874. An ''Age'' column was entered only once, following the students' names in the report for October 1874. 1 The middle initial F seems to have been an erroneous writing of T. but possibly it stood for ''Ferguson.'' 2 John L. Bentley' a New Jersey-born jeweler, thirty-one years old in 1870, lived in Old Point Comfort near Fortress Monroe. BTW probably did not work for him, for he said in Up from Slavery, chap. 4, that he worked in the summer of ~ 873 at a restaurant at Fortress Monroe. This was probably at Harrison Phoebus's resort hotel at Old Point, where the hotel steward E. Burke had charge of nearly fifty waiters. It may be that BTW resided with Bentley during the summer. 3Nathalie Lord (~847-~928). Born in Kennebunkport, Me., she moved to Portland in z8 when her father' Charles Austin Lord, became editor of the influential Congregational journal, the Christian Mirror. She attended Vassar College from 1868 to 1869 and joined the Hampton Institute faculty in 1873, where she was one of BTW's most helpful teachers. He attended her Sunday-school class and studied the Bible under her direction for a quarter-hour before lunch each day. She also taught him public speaking and later helped him to prepare his postgraduate oration, ''The Force That Wins,'' at the ~ 879 Hampton commencement. During his school days BTW cared for her boat and rowed for her to earn money for school expenses. She resigned from Hampton in 1880 to become the first secretary of the Woman's Home Missionary Association in Boston from ~ 880 to ~ 893. From ~ 893 to ~ 898 she taught Indian children and adults at Standing Rock Mission, S.D., under the sponsorship of the American Missionary Association. From 1898 to 1908 she was secretary to the faculty of Rollins College, and from ~ god to ~ 908 also private secretary to the president of the college. From z908 to 19~5 she taught at the black Calhoun School in Lowndes County, Ala. This was a school in which BTW took a fostering interest, and he and Miss Lord cooperated in programs of rural uplift in the Black Belt. Throughout her career she gave BTW frank and cogent advice and encouraged him to continue the Hampton approach to educational and social philosophy. 4 Elizabeth Hale Brewer (d. 19~3), born in New Haven, Conn., a graduate of Vassar College (~873), taught natural philosophy and physical geography at Hampton Institute from '873 to '875. 5 Elizabeth Hale Brewer. eon May 3~, 1876, BTW was reported on the ''Post Graduates'' account as still having a debit balance of $23.05. According to a rule of the school, a student who graduated with a credit balance could not draw it but could leave it to his credit to be transferred to a descendant or other relative. A student who left school with a debit balance, on the other hand, could not return until it was paid. When paid up, the student was put on the ''honor roll.'' BTW by April 1877 was able to reduce his debt by only $4. ~ 2, because he was financially aiding his brother John, then a student at Hampton, and because the Malden school district had fallen delinquent on payments to their teachers. On Apr. 30, t877, BTW's debit balance of $18.93 was transferred to John's student account. This apparently served the dual purpose of clearing BTW's name from the list of student debtors and simplifying the institute's accounting. (E,cStudents Folio 434, Business Office, ViHaI; interview with Miss Lucy Todd of the business office, Hampton Institute, summer z966, BTW to J. F. B. Marshall, Mar. 24, 29, Apr. I 8 I 877, BTW Folder, Prcsident's Office Vault ViHaI.)