The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.4, page 345, Nov. 1897, U. of Illinois Press

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NOVE M BER · I 8 9 7 to thank you for the same. I will ask you, if you please, to keep the matter quiet, as it may transpire that I will not be a formal applicant for the office. It has been my desire and effort, all my life, to be a fair and just man, and I have tried to give expression, with fearlessness, to my convictior~s even when my friends thought it imprudent to do so. I will send you a re-print of some letters published by me in ~ 4 and ~ 896, and if you feel inclined to do so, I would appreciate it if you will send a copy to the president and ask his personal attention to them. I have been told by friends that the publication of these letters kept me from going on the Supreme Bench of my own State. My special efforts, in behalf of the colored people, as shown by my connection with their college at Savannah, on which I have served for many years, without compensation, and to which I have given much of my time, I think would entitle me probably to' special consideration from the leaders among them, who are in position to appreciate such things. If in view of these considerations, you would write a personal letter to the president, Stating that you thought my appointment would be appreciated by the colored people, I would be glad. I remember your speech at the opening of the Exposition here, which was eminently sensible, and have frequently spoken of it as the best delivered on that occasion, though my friend and college class-mate, Judge Emory Speer, also spoke. With sentiments of esteem, I am, Yours truly ALS Con. o7c BTW Papers DLC. W. R. Hammond William R. Hammond (b. 1848) of Georgia was a lawyer and judge of the superior court in Atlanta (~88~-85~. In 1888 he made an unsuccessful bid for the state senate on the anti-saloon platform, then returned to private law practice. 2 William E. Boggs was chancellor of the University of Georgia from 1888 to 1899. Born in India in 1838, the son of a Presbyterian missionary, he returned to South Carolina with his family and graduated from South Carolina College in ~ 859. He graduated from Columbia Theological Seminary in ~ 86e, became a Presbyterian minister, and was a chaplain in the Confederate Anny. He served as a Presbyterian minister from the end of the war to 1888, and again after his resignation as chancellor. 3 BTW wrote to McKinley on behalf of Hammond's appointment as a U.S. circuit judge. (John Addison Porter to BTW, Dec. ~5, 1897, Con. ~3~>, BTW Papers, DLC.) 345