The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.3, page 110, Dec. 1890, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers both In Georgia and Ala to unite the ~ Cong! bodies. There may be hope here for something. I trust a right spirit Is at the bottom of it. Your bro R. C. Bedford I have just reed a very kind letter from Rev Dr Crawford of Sparta Wis. I preach for him Dec I6th. At Tomah my mother's home Dec I. R. C. B. ALS Con. 3 BTW Papers ATT. Original destroyed. From Ellen Collins New York. Dec 6. ~ 890 Sir, We have a good double-faced gold watch which was camed by my Fathers for several years. It is too good and valuable to be given to a very young person, and we have been thinking to whom it could be given. My Father was greatly interested for the people of your race, and would I think be pleased if one of them should wear it. It has occurred to us that perhaps you would like it for yourself.3 You may already have one, but if not, and this would be acceptable to you, just say so, and we will have it put in order and sent to you. Perhaps it would be in time to reach you as a holiday present. I hope school matters move along well. Respectfully Ellen Collins ALS Con. 8 BTW Papers DLC. Ellen Collins (~8~8-~9~) was born and reared in New York City. In 18 she was active in war relief work as chairman of the committee on supplies for the Woman's Central Association of Relief, a branch of the U.S. Sanitary Commission. From 1865 to 1870 she worked for the New York Freedmen's Relief Association encouraging New York women to support Negro education. During the 1870s she was active in New York charities work investigating public institutions such as hospitals, almshouses, and asylums. In 1880 she invested more than $20,000 of her own money in the restoration of several tenement houses in New York, which she rented to the poor as part of an experiment in model tenements. She conducted the tenements successfully for twenty-three years. Of Quaker ancestry, she formally joined the Society of Friends in 1899. Miss Collins was an enthusiastic supporter of BTW and his school, frequently giving both money and advice to BTW. Her correspondence also reveals a friendly I IO