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D E C E M B E R · I 8 9 8 I want to thank you most earnestly for the noble words contained in your message regarding education. I do not see how anything could have been stronger or finer and I am sure the whole state feels indebted to you. Yours Respectfully Booker T. Washington ALS Governor Letter File Gso A-Ar. From William Torrey Harris Washington, D.C., December 2, 1898 Sir: I write to inform you that at a meeting of a committee of the National Educational Association, held in New York on the With instant for the purpose of nominating an Advisory Board to look after the interests of our exhibit of education in the Paris Exposition of ~ goo and to advise and assist the United States Commission appointed by the President to take charge of the contribution from this country, you were unanimously chosen by the said committee as a member of that part of the Board to consist of representatives of schools of the fine arts and industrial arts. Will you favor me with an early reply stating whether you accept the appointment? It is understood that it will not be necessary for the Advisory Board to hold meetings. The secretary of the Commissioner General will consult the several members of the Board by letter and in person from time to time as questions of management arise. Very truly yours, W. T. Harris TLS Con. ~46 BTW Papers DLC1. From William Henry Baldwin, Jr. Long Island City, N.Y. Dec 4 1898 Dear Washington I think of you constantly these days. There are so many sore points being rubbed by the public, that I like to think of the healing salve that you manufacture at Tuskegee. Every man or 525