University of Illinois Press
 

    

 
Previous Section, June 1890
Previous Section, June 1890		   Next Chapter, Aug. 1890
Next Chapter, Aug. 1890
Go to Table of Contents
Go to Table of Contents    
Print a lo-res (300 dpi x 150 dpi) PDF image of this page
   

  

  
The page presentation framework of the Booker T. Washington papers is designed to provide researchers worldwide with searchable access to the thousands of pages comprising the fourteen volumes, most of which are out of print. Adapted from the National Academy Press's Open Book framework, this framework allows searching down to the page level, provides sorting of search results chronologically, enables easy navigation across multiple volumes, and allows page-by-page local printing (via PDF) of every page.
[ Top of Page ] [ Home ] [ Contact Us ] [ Help ]
©2000 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
All rights reserved
OCRed data provided for searching only.
J U LY ' I 8 go To Samuel Chapman Armstrong Stevens House New York, June e8 1890 Dear Gen. Armstrong: This morning I had a very pleasant caD on Mr. C. P. Huntington at his summer residence in Westchester. He spoke about his intention to visit Hampton within a few days and that he is planing to give a sum of money for the enlargement and support of the saw mill &c. He gives Tuskegee $ ~ coo. Yours truly Booker T. Washington 25 Beacon St., Boston ALS BTW Folder ViHaI. BTW wrote on the stationery of the Stevens House but gave the Boston mailing address. From William D. Floyd Opelika, Ala., July Ah 1890 My dear teacher: With much regret I write you relative to something I heard Rev. McEwen,2 of Mont'y., say about some remarks made in your address at the closing exercises at Nashvill, Tenn. at Fisk University. Some pastor, Baptist I think, per surname Jackson of Nashvill wrote him. Said that you remarked, out of four hundred ~ 400 ~ Colored Baptist Churches in Alabama only about fifteen intelligent pastors could be found to carry the gospel. He remarked, (McEwen) that ''I am going to refute it all.'' Again, he (Mc.) said that if you didn't put half ~ 3/2 ~ Baptist teachem in your School that he was going to raise his voice against the School. He proposed to split the School. Furthermore, stated that you were only a Normal School Graduate and the only way you could raise money North was teDing the people that the Colored people in the South were very illiterate. He said that within a very short while he would be heard from through the Bap65