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NOVE M BER · ~ 8 9 8 From Thomas Busting Dear Sir: I arrived in Tampa Friday night: Saturday morning I began my commission in Ellinger's, Pino's Ybor's and other Cuban villages. But I am sorry to say that my progress is poor, it is due to the fact that they are more anxious to return to Cuba, than to do anything else. I have explained everything to them and suceeded in getting only one to promise me positively. It seem as though they fail to realize what an opportunity is offered them. Their sentiments are expressed in the words ''On to Cuba.'' I leave to-night for Key West enroute to Havana as I think I can do better there. Please send at once to Key West $~5. or $30. so if I find it necessary to go to Havana I may have money enough to pay transportation for a few as far as Key West, then I can Waite there for other necessary arrangements. This is to prevent a long stay in Havana. Hoping an Early reply and success in the future. I am yours Tampa Fla., Nov. I, ~ 898 Thomas Austin ALS Con. ~36 BTW Papers DLC. Thomas Austin, of Key West, Fla., was a member of the A middle class in 1898. As he spoke Spanish, BTW commissioned him to recruit Cuban students for Tuskegee. He graduated in Moo and settled in Key West as a teacher and printer. From Emmett lay Scott Tuskegee, Ala., Nov. 4, 1898 Dear Mr. Washington: ~ have it in mind to say to you that I think unless the criticism of your speech should become more general than it is that it will not be amiss to give ourselves some time for reckoning just how wide-spread it is. It will be, to my mind, somewhat unseemly to enter into a series of denials etc., as this will be just what some people most desire that you should do, and it will tend to take from your manly plea and stand some of the strength which accentuated and 5oi