The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.3, page 34, Mar. 1890, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers get my English printers to' make mine just like yours in shape 8z style. All I can say is Anti-Caste became a living reality. It is most encouraging to find how far it reaches. It stirs up newspaper correspondence brings letters from your Gen. Armstrong from the democratic press &c into our English papers. May God bless it to' the good of your people & mine. yours very respectfully C. Impey P.S. am sending this to my white friends in America those of them who as yet have made no response to the repeated sending of the little paper. C. I. ALS Con. 95 BTW Papers DLC. ~ Catherine Impey (~847-~923) of Street, Somerset, England, was a Quaker and a vegetarian. She was active in several temperance societies in England and also did social and humanitarian work among the poor. Her strong racial liberalism led her to publish Anti-Caste, patterned, in physical makeup at least, after BTW's Southern Letter. The masthead described Anti-Caste as ''Devoted to the Interests of the Coloured Races.'' In several trips to the United States beginning in 1878' she managed to acquaint herself with the outstanding black leaders of the late nineteenth century, including Frederick Douglass, Joseph C. Price, T. Thomas Fortune, Benjamin T. Tanner, Daniel A. Payne, John C. Dancy, T. McCants Stewart, William Still, and Ida B. Wells. Anti-Caste stressed the brotherhood of man regardless of race and concentrated on racial conditions in America, but also included items related to Australia, India, and British colonies in Africa. Miss Impey published Anti-Caste from March 1888 until July 1895, except for a time in 1893-94 when it apparently did not appear. The April-May issue of 1895 was a memorial issue to Frederick Douglass, and the final number carried a reference to Tuskegee Institute and the Tuskegee Farmers' Conference, ''both due to the wonderful organising talent of a negro gentleman, Mr. Booker T. Washington.'' (Anti-Caste, ~ [Mar. ~ 888], I; ibid., 7 [June-July T 895], 8. ~ 2 Miss Impey's personal note to BTW was written on the back of a circular letter dated February 1890. In the circular she wrote that Ar~ti-Caste was designed to argue against racial discrimination and segregation. She believed that treatment of persons ''based merely on physical characteristics, surely involves] a degree of wrong and injury to individuals....'' She denied that one race was inherently superior to another and thought racial differences were due to ''advantages of education, wealth, influence, &c.'' which whites monopolized in a manner ''purely tyrannical and unjust altogether inconsistent with civilization and dishonouring to religion.'' She admitted that ''the coloured people, taken as a whole, are in an inferior condition,'' but she denied that this was due to ''natural inferiority.'' She believed her newsletter, circulated in Europe as well as America, would help allay racial misunderstanding. 34