The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.3, page 162, Aug. 1891, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers others can take up & that you can direct being down there all right. I have asked Mr Gilman2 who is at Jamaica Plains to confer with you about it. Cordially Yours H. B. Frissel1 ALS Con. 99 BTW Papers DLC. ~ Mabel Wilhelmina Dillingham and Charlotte R. Thorn, who had previously taught at Hampton Institute, founded Calhoun Colored School at Calhoun, Lowndes County, Ala., in October 189a, with six teachers and some 300 pupils. They were co-principals until Miss Dillingh~m's death in 1894. Her father, the Rev. Pitt Dillingham, served as co-principal from 1894 to Tog. From Tog until 1 Miss Thorn was sole principal. Modeled after Hampton and Tuskegee, Calhoun was a community elementary and industrial school. BTW served for many years on its board of trustees, as did Hollis Burke Frissell. (See An Address at the Funeral of Mabel W. Dillingham, cat Oct. ~7, 1894, below.) 2 Frederick N. Gilman (d. 189~) came to Hampton in 18 from Boston, where he had worked for an importing and mercantile firm. His health had failed, and he undertook light tasks, such as the charge of the knitting department at the school, until his recovery from a prolonged illness. For a time he was business manager of the Southern Workman. In 1889 he succeeded General J. F. B. Marshall as treasurer. His ill health continued, however, and he died in ~ 89a, of pulmonary tuberculosis. From Mary Elizabeth Preston Stearns Tufts College P.O. Masstts. August ~ ~ th 189 Dear Friend. In memory of a noble life on Earth,2 ''without haste and without rest,'' securing immortality with the angels of Go{l- beyond our vision—never beyond our love, and reverence, I extend to you, who can ''never forget'' the enclosed Washington, Davidson Scholarship for ~ ~ . This day opens anew the cruel wound her departure; has made in your heart and all the years to come, until the summons comes to call you to her side again. I cannot doubt that she is with you, not on this hallowed day, but on aD the days of toil, and labor, in the work she loved so well, and died, that it might live. And it will live! Holy is her dust, as any Martyr of the Christian Church. Radiant evermore, the crown she has won. The years as they hasten by only add Justre to her spotless, heroic memory. To me, she shines like a star: too far for my poor deservings to ~62