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The BOOKER T. WAS HINGTON Papers Miss. It is my mother, ant] I meant to have asked you to do this before I left but ~ forgot it. Please do not delay it longer than absolutely necessary. I ski al] not write her for she is very aged and nervous and if the money did not reach her the day after the letter she would be upset. Send it by Post Office Order. The audience was wild over Mr. Washingtons speech. The Governor' rose to his feet & cried Three Cheers for Booker T Washington. You would have been pleased at the sight. ~ hope that both you and Mrs Logan will get a little rest this summer. I was never so tired in my life. I do not think I can ever call myself rested again. Please attend to this matter as soon as possible. Yours truly Mrs W. ALI Con. ~c BTW Papers ATT. Original destroyed. 1897. Governor Roger Wolcott at the unveiling of the Shaw monument, May 3~, From William James Cambridge, Mass., June 5, 1897 Dear Mr. Washington: ~ hope you got back safely, none the worse for wear and tear. Your speech has left the most enthusiastic expressions of delight behind it. I hear nothing on all sides but praise of it and of you, and I only hope that such things will not turn your head. What ~ particularly admired it for, apart from the nobility and elevation of its sentiments, is its simplicity and brevity. To say one thing, strongly, is after all the rule for the orator; every digression and excursion simply weaken the effect. The sentiment of the whole day here was very extraordinary. ~ think it took everyone by surprise that it should have been so intense and pathetic. After all, it was the last wave of the war breaking over Boston—''the tender grace of a day that is dead'' etc. The subject was so humane and ideal and symbollical that the whole celebration seemed to float off into the realms of poetry. What struck me most in the whole thing was the faces of the survivors of the with and with, such excellent, patient, furrowed old citizens as they were. I enclose the note which, by mistake, was not mailed on Sunday night, 292