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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers From David :Lee Johnston Pratt Mines Ala. 9-25-'89 Dear Prof. I guess you have heard from aB the class since school closed but me. I would have written to you sooner but I knew you were away during summer and did not know just where you returned. ~ had a letter from Prof. Logan a few days since and I was very glad to hear that so many new students were coming in. ~ hope you will have a full school this term. Some of the boys up here are not coming at all this term. I have tried to persuade them to come but they think it best to remain out. ~ thought once of teaching this winter but I have decided not to do so as I have a very good job that pays me from $4s.oo to $50.00 per month and I think it best to keep' it through the winter. I think of giving the school to Going, but I had much rather some of the girls have it, ~ find it a hard matter to hear from the girls is why ~ havens offered it to some of them. It is a very good school and in a very good community. I am sure most any of them would like it. And too ~ think it will engage two teachers. ~ will meet the parents to-night, and if I cannot posibly satisfy them by recomending others ~ will fill one of the positions my self. Love to all the Teachers. Whenever I can ~ speak a good word for Tuskegee. Hoping an early reply I am Very Truly yours David L. Johnston P.S. A longer letter next time. ALS Con. 9z BTW Papers DLC. ~ Howell L. Goins of Tuscaloosa, Ala.' was a classmate of Johnston at Tuskegee from 1885 to 1889. After graduation he taught in various towns in Alabama. From George Leonard Chancy Leominster. Mass. Sept. a5. '89 Dear Mr. Washington. I enclose the copies of the ''Acts'' which you sent me. There is no mistaking their language. The control of the 6