The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.3, page 305, Mar. 1893, U. of Illinois Press

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MARCH · I 893 carried out, incurring a loss of more than $40. is an illustration of this point. Fourth, students in your charge are not pushed forward in carpentry work with any degree of satisfaction or system. The result is, students become dissatisfied and take the first opportunity to leave. In plain words, the students fee] that they are not being taught carpentry and they feel that they are not permitted to use the tools as they should. The student who mentioned last night that he had been in your department 5 months and had not worked with tools, is a fair example of many others who have been in your department. The fact that you could have kept an order like the one for the Calhoun desks in your possession without reporting about it one way or the other, shows a lack of reliability and is injurious to the school. It is felt by all that you have the ability to do work when you want to, and that you do often perform work that will bear inspection; but it is done at too dear a cost on the time, patience and strength of some one else who has to be constantly following up your work. Phelps Hall, as it now stands, is an excellent example of the kind of work that you are able to do. In view of the facts just stated, it has been decided that unless there is a change in the matters just stated between now and ~the] first off June, the school will not employ you for another term; in case there is a change, the school wiD be only too glad to retain you in its employment. Yours truly, B. T. Washington TLpS Con. ~o6 BTW Papers DLC. ~ John Henry Washington. From William Watson Thompson Tuskegee, Ala., March ~4 1893 Dear Sir: I have a warrant for Frank Bell I got after him out In the country this morning and he out run me. I think that he has gone to the scoot he went in that direction and I leam that he has some 3o5