The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.3, page 256, Aug. 1892, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers changes. I think you will see that little of the time of the Lady Principal is occupied in drudgery, but we wish her in the main to see that the work of others is done well. There will be plenty of opportunity to teach elocution. I do hope that you will decide not to go to California, but ever if you do not give up your California tup, I hope you can come here for a week in September and come for a permanent stay after you return from California. The salary will be $60.00 per month and board. Board to include ail expenses except travelling this is something more than our prep ent Lady Principal is being paid. If there is anything in the plan that I have outlined that you do not like, I hope you will say so. I should not be willing to let the matter of a few dollars stand in the way of your coming. I can but repeat that I believe there is no place where your life can be given in a way to better lift up those, who in time will lift thousands of others up than at Tuskegee and we shall be slow to take ''no'' for an answer. I saw Dr. Dorsette a few days ago and he is enthusiastic over your coming. Yours truly, TLPS Con. 106 BTW Papers DLC. Booker T. Washington Hattie Quinn Brown (~850-~g ), noted elocutionist and lecturer, was Lady Principal at Tuskegee in the 1892-93 school year. Born in Pittsburgh, she was the daughter of two former slaves who had secured their freedom before the Civil War. Her father worked as a riverboat steward and express agent and acquired considerable real estate in Pittsburgh. The family moved to Ontario in 1864 but returned to Wilberforce, Ohio, in 1870 so that Hallie and her brother could attend Wilberforce University. She graduated in 1873, taught school in Mississippi and South Carolina, served as dean of Allen University, Columbia, S.C., from 1885 to 1887, and taught in the Dayton, Ohio, public schools from 1887 to 189~, establishing a night school there for adult migrants from the South. She was professor of elocution at Wilberforce (~893-94, 1900-~903), and spent five years in the logos in Europe as a traveling lecturer. A leader in the Negro women's clubs. she _ _ was president of the Ohio State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (~905-~2~. In ~ 893 she helped found the Colored Women's League of Washington, D.C., forerunner of the National Association of Colored Women, of which she was president from ~ 920 to ~ 924. She was also active in the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the woman suffrage movement. In the A.M.E. Church she made an unsuccessful bid to be the first woman to hold an office in its General Conference. Hallie Brown's writings included two books on public speaking and a collection of biographical sketches of black women, Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction (~926~. 256