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SEPTEMBER · It896 From Albert G. Davis Montgomery Ala. Sept ~ oth '96 Dear Prof: I am an applicant for Swayne Schools in this city, and have received the endorsement of many leading citizens. It matters not how much I am endorsed, if my Alma Mater withholds her endorsement, I will be seriously handicapped in the race when all the other applicants are receiving the generous and unqualified endorsement from the various institutions from whence they graduated. Please send at once as nice a letter as possible endorsing my candidacy to Hon. A. D. Sayre2 Sec'y Board of School Examiners. The election of Principal of Swayne School is soon to be held, and it is absolutely essential that all my papers be submitted as early as possible. Do not send the letter to me but to Mr. Sayre. I leave for Birmingham Ala tonight. Please write me there what you have done. My wife is sick so that I cannot remain here any longer. Yours gratefully Albert G. Davis ALS Con. ~6 BTW Papers DLC. ~ Swayne School in Montgomery was founded by the American Missionary Association during Reconstruction. It was named for General Wager Swayne, then in military command of Alabama and in charge of black education. One of the largest schools of its kind, it was subsequently absorbed by the State Normal School for Colored Students in Montgomery. 2 Anthony Dickinson Sayre, born in Tuskegee in 1858, was admitted to the Montgomery bar in 1880, thus beginning a political career that included service in the state legislature and as an associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. He was a member of the Montgomery Board of Education from ~ 89 ~ to ~ 9 ~ ~ . The youngest of his six children, Zelda, married F. Scott Fitzgerald. To Nathan B. Young 1 N Tuskegee' Ala.' 9' I 6' I 896 Mr. Young: I did not understand and do not now understand, that it is the wish of the committee on the course of study to have the phsycology dropped out of the course of study. The matter was discussed last year but it was not determined that this change be made. I desire that the phsycology remain in the course much in the same 209