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The BOOKER T. WAS HINGTON Papers favorably consider a proposition from you looking forward to my association with you in the capacity of Private Secretary. I shall be glad to have a line from you advising me when I shall be expected to begin service; also whether provision will be made for wife and self at Tuskegee; and such other matters as you may think I deserve to know. An early reply will be appreciated by me. Mrs. Scott joins me in good wishes for your continued health and prosperity. Very sincerely yours, Emmett J. Scott ALS Con. o7c BTW Papers DLC. From John Stephens Durham Parker House, Boston, July 3, ~ 897 My dear Dr. Washington: I regret very much that I missed you when I called at your hotel this morning. I shall remain in this evening and I trust that you may find it convenient to drop in after seven or half past to meet my wife. ~ enclose a very bad proof of an article which will appear in the July issue of the A.M.E. Church Review.i It is an abstract of a fragment of my talks to the Hampton and Tuskegee students a year ago. My recollection is that you thought well of this part of my studies. If my plan be approved, I trust to put those talks in the form of a pamphlet: ''To Teach the Negro History'' and to distribute the screed privately among the graduates of both institutions. I am deeply interested, therefore, in having your frank judgment and I have brought on the proof for that purpose. Trusting to see you, I am Very Sincerely Yours, John S. Durham ALS Con. IQ7 BTWPaPerS DLC. Durham's article, ''Three Growths,'' A.M.E. Church Review, ~4 (July 1897), ~2~-30, concluded that the establishment of trade schools and the movement to open factories, workshops, and businesses were in harmony with natural economic development. Durham discussed the different economic roles of slaves and how they evolved after the Civil War. He had high praise for the ex-slave craftsmen and suggested that schools such as Tuskegee continued that tradition. 3IO