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FEBRUARY · 1877 U.S. Army veteran, served as a Confederate lieutenant general under Stonewall Jackson. Late in the war he commanded the defense of Richmond. 2 Hopkins's Outline Study of Man (~873) was a popularization of its author's conservative theological and metaphysical concepts, On answer to Darwinism. - 3 Probably a reference to the Civil Rights Act of Mar. I, 1875. 4 Almost certainly John Wheeler Harding, who regularly reported on Hampton and later Tuskegee for the Springfield Republican. A Certificate of Achievement from Hampton Institute [Hampton, Va., June ~ o, ~ 875] HAMPTON NORMAL AND AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE tPict?lre] HAMPTON,VIRGINIA The Trustees and Officers of the HAMPTON NORMAL AND AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE hereby certify that Booker T. Washington has completed, with credit, a 3 years' course of instruction in this Institution, and they hereby recommend him as competent to teach a Graded school. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the undersigned have affixed our signatures, this both day of Lane ~S37s. Geo. Whipple PRESIDENT BOARD OF TRUSTEES S. C. Armstrong PRINCIPAL PDS ''The Oaks'' (former residence of BTW), Tuskegee Institute. From Samuel Chapman Armstrong [Hampton, Va.] Feb ~2 t~8747 Dear Washington Yours of the 6th is recd. I have no agreement of any kind among my papers in regard to making John & Fannie Smiths exceptions to the School rule. I;made the offer that you referred to but I had no means of knowing that 67