The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.3, page 161, July 1891, U. of Illinois Press

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JULY · I 89 I Still if you are going to trust any one you may trust him. How did you and Mr. Wheelock6 make it? Would you mind getting me a string ok beads plated gold. Do not pay more than $~.oo. I am or shall be greatly in your debt but then I shall get out soon. I wrote my mother and sent her a photo. The shoes fit the children except Davidson's they are too small. Mrs. Morin and I sleep in Mrs. King's room and you can imagine how early I awake for Baker and Davidson begin their conversation with the dawn. I shall go; to the HaD soon for I think ~ shall fee] better over there. I feel just as if I could sit down by you and have a good cry this morning. Mrs. Morin's mother is here. She is such a nice old lady. I hope to hear from you soon. Take lots of love for your self. ALS Con. 8 BTW Papers DLC. Maggie ~ Olive I. Lischey, teacher in the Tuskegee training school during the 189~-9z school year. 2 Sarah F. Peake Greene graduated from Hampton in 1885 and taught for nine years in the academic department at Tuskegee. She mamed James Matthew Greene, a Tuskegee instructor of brick masonry. 3 Perhaps Frank Burgoyne Barnett, a junior in 189~-9~. 4 Nathalie Lord. s Halle Tanner Dillon. 6 Fred D. Wheelock, librarian and night-school teacher. From Hollis Burke Frissell Private Hampton, Va., July 24h 18 Dear Mr Washington: I wish you would let me know about Miss Dillinghams scheme for work in Alabama.2 She is pushing ahead in her usual enthusiastic way & I dont want to throw cold water upon her plans. If she is acting under your direction with your knowledge of the country &c I think it is all right, but she must have some one who will look at things more coolly than she is likely to do. I am very fond of Miss Dillingham & believe thoroughly in her devotion but she moves quickly from one thing to another. Patient endurance needs to be cultivated by her. If this scheme is one that she can start & that ~