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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers To Warren Logan Grand IJnir}n Hotel New York, April gth, 1897 Dear Mr. Logan: I have received your letter regarding Dr. Mayo, and I hope you will give him every chance possible to see the class work. In a letter to me Miss Jackson: mentions the fact that Dr. Mayo had not been properly taken care of while there.2 Perhaps you might see Miss Jackson and find out in what particular he has not been properly looked after. Sometime next week Miss Caroline H. Pemberton, of Philadelphia, will reach Tuskegee. She is a writer of a good deal of ability and note. I wish you to give her every opportunity to see the school also see that she has an opportunity to go to Mt. Meigs, and also see the work Mrs. Washington is doing on Russell plantation and anything else that you think it well that she might see. I have asked Mrs. Washington to let her stop at my house. Please see that some one meets her at Chchaw or at Tuskegee. Yours truly, Booker T. Washington TLS Con. ~o BOW Papers ATT. Original destroyed. Estelle M. Jackson. 2 Apparently Mayo visited Tuskegee twice during his stay in Alabama of a month or more. To William James Grand Union Hotel, New York, April ~4th, 1897 My dear sir: It was very kind and thoughtful in you to send me a copy of your oration. It will be of great service to me in preparing my own. Only a few days ago I decided to write you on one point and that is, I feared perhaps since several poems have been written on Mr. Shaw's life and death, that both of us might be tempted to use the same line of poetry. I shall not read your oration until I have finished my own and then I shall go through yours carefully with a view of seeing if in any way mine is too much like yours in any respect. I think you understand that my address is to be a short one and it will be general 270