The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.3, page 564, July 1895, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers ~ want to impress upon you the importance of seeing that the Dizer Fund2 is very carefully looked after. It is Mr. Dizer's intention to make another donation in the fall, and I think he will add to it every year if he sees that it is being administered in a business-like manner. It will be far better to foreclose one or two mortgages than to lose the use of this fund which we will do if collections are not made. Just as far as possible, I hope you will also see that houses erected wholly or in part by this money, are put up in a creditable manner. It is now the plan of Mr. and Mrs. Dizer to go to Tuskegee in February largely with the view of seeing as many of these houses as possible. I am glad to hear that matters are going well. ~ wish you would confer with Mr. CaIloway and Mr. J. H. Washington at once, and see what is best to do regarding sending the cattle to Marshall Farm. Mr. Calloway says that we are at too great expense in keeping the cattle at the school; that they can be kept at no expense at the Marshall Farm. Yours truly, Booker T. Washington TLS Con. 9 BTW Papers ATT. Original destroyed. Charles G. Harris taught vocal music and choir at Tuskegee from 1895 to . 2 The Dizer Fund, established by Silas C. Dizer of Boston about 1892, granted $~,500 to the trustees of Tuskegee Institute for revolving loans to black farmers to help them buy or build homes. Tuskegee graduates and students had preference. The borrowers paid 8 percent interest. The purpose of the fund was to set examples Of a ''model Christian home'' among the tenant shacks of the Black Belt. (Boston Evening Transcript, Dec. as, ~ 894, ~ 6. ~ By 1895, when the Dizer Fund had been increased to $3,ooo, Warren Logan reported to BTW that a balance of $7 .~o remained and that this amount had been pledged. Fourteen persons had been aided by the fund, seven of them in Tuskegee, two in Montgomery, and the others elsewhere in Alabama. (Logan to BTW, July lo, 1895, Con. 862, BTW Papers, DLC.) T~ ·1 TO 0 molly Wow anc . Crawford House Boston, July 9 I 895 Dear Miss Howland: I have been thinking a good deal to day about your question as to how you could best help' us in case you decided to 564