The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.3, page 369, Oct. 1893, U. of Illinois Press

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OCTOBER · I 893 the teachers in all matters of education. This confidence can only be secured and held by hard patient research, investigation and study not only during school months but during vacation. When the teachers have seen by your failure to make out a programme at the beginning of the term and your failure in several other directions to come up to the standard of a leader and example for other teachers, many of whom are constantly studying in season and out of season to make themselves qualified for their work, they have come to lose that respect for and confidence in you that should exist in a person holding your position. This is the reason of the unbecoming squabbles that too often take place. Knowing this to be true, I could not be honest with you and loyal to the institution without saying so frankly. To be still more frank it is just to you to say that I have been seriously considering with some of the trustees and others whether it would not be best for the interest of the institution to ask for your resignation. But feeling that it is not impossible for you to overcome the difficulties referred to, this step has not been taken. But this is done with the understanding that from now till the end of the term these personal and disgraceful wrangles especially in the presence and in the hearing of students must cease. And also with the further understanding that you must exhibit a thorough acquaintance with all branches of your work instead of the seeming superficiality that is now too often exhibited and thus command the confidence and respect of all. The cooperation and good will of all the teachers, as does not now seem to be the case, are especially needed in the case of one occupying your position. These squabbles lower the tone of the whole school and compromise all the teachers and breed an atmosphere of coarseness and commonness that injures the whole institution for all time. In regard to the trouble that took place Sunday about sending the girl to town, you certainly went beyond your bounds in sending the girl to another than our resident Physician. If there was anything in the case requiring the attention of another physician you should have reported it to the principal or the one acting in his stead. Dr. Dillon erred also in not giving you an explanation of her actions for not treating the girl Sunday. This explanation I have requested her to make to you and which she says she would have made to you in your 369