The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.4, page 123, Feb. 1896, U. of Illinois Press

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F E B R UARY · I 8 9 6 To Charles Gordon Ames ''Tuskegee, Ala.] Feb. 29, 1896 My Dear Mr. Ames: ~ learn that applications have been made to the American Unitarian Association board of directors by several schools for the Frothingham Fund, which as you perhaps know has been coming to the Tuskegee Institute ever since the Fund was established. The last time I saw Mr. Reynolds2 he told me that it was his hope that this Fund would continue to come to Tuskegee as long as the school merited it by its work. I find very much to our disadvantage at this time, that there is a prevailing opinion that Tuskegee gets all the money that it needs and that our treasury is overflowing. You cannot realize how exasperating it is to have such an impression abroad when we practically live from hand to mouth each day. During the last fourteen years I have not been able to take a single week of vacation on account of the pressing needs of the institution. We are being hurt in this way, one person feels that everybody else is giving to Tuskegee consequently it is not necessary for him to give; then we are failing to receive a good deal of money from orthodox individuals and churches that we might receive but for our liberal position and help that we receive from Unitarian institutions. To fail to receive help we ought to receive from orthodox bodies and then failing to receive help from Unitarian sources will prove pretty disastrous to us. I do not think it helps the cause in the South to take money from one Institution to give to another, especially when it simply means that so much additional time has to be spent by the principal away from the school to get money to replace that which has been taken away. In the end the cause is not benefited. If one or two institutions can be gotten on their feet with somewhat of an assured income then the cause will ala. ~rentiv helnerl The tro,~hle. at Tuskegee now is, that we Ho not. c~ __-- ^- --or know where we are to get two-thirds of our support at the beginning of the year. I hope you and the members of the board will consider this matter carefully ir1 making your decisions Yours truly, Booker T. Washington TLpS Con. ~35 BTW Papers DLC. Charles Gordon Ames (~8~8-~9~) was a prominent Unitarian minister. He I 2 3