The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.4, page 554, Dec. 1898, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WAS HINGTON Papers I note what you say about another engine arid boiler needed. I am buying very large amounts of machinery myself and I will make an effort to have some of the manufacturers to send you what you want without charge to you or to me. You are doing a great work, and I think will continue to do! good work if you keep on the lines of economy which I believe you have followed all these years. You have a great work to do and it will not be all done when you leave it, and I hope that another Booker Washington will be ready to take your place. A people who have been groping, as you may say, for centuries, can hardly be expected to come upon the highest plane in one generation, and it is with great satisfaction that I look upon the great advance that has been made in the last quarter of a century, and if it will only continue for three-quarters of a century more, I think the whole will be accomplished; and a century is but a short time in the history of a race. Conscientious labor, with the practice of an intelligent economy, always brings good results, but patience and courage are needed with your people—patience to wait until the prejudice against them and prejudice is a factor to be dealt with, as much as stone walls are, and it can only be removed by time and good conduct is overcome; and courage to steadfastly continue in the following of those lines and the doing of those things whereby that prejudice is to be removed. Until that time social equality is a delusion and, to say the least, a practical impossibility for your people. I congratulate you on what you have already achieved, and the best wish I can make you, in this Christmas season, is that you may live long to carry on your good work, for I feel certain that your greatest happiness lies in seeing your people advance and prosper. With kindest regards, Yours sincerely, TLS Con. ~46 BTW Papers DLC. 554 C. P. Huntington