The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.5, page 168, Aug. 1899, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers entirely passed. It is not a thing, either, to which we attach very great importance. There is a suggestion, however, in this article which seems to us of great value, and which, if you are willing to carry it out, we think can be developed into an article bound to attract attention and do good. The first four pages of your story are devoted to your personal struggles; they tell the story of the development of your resolution and outline the sound reasoning which you applied to yourself, and your conditions. I believe that if you should tell the story of your own personal development and of the way in which you have carried out your idea of art industrial institute, that you would do a piece of work which woulcE open the eyes of many of the white race and be a stimulus to your own race. If you are willing to take the time to work out your story in much the style that you have done in the first four pages of this article, I feel confident that it would stand a very good chance of finding a place in McClure's Magazine. I do not say absolutely that it would, because it is our rule never to promise to publish anything until we have read it. I do feel, however, like urging you to undertake it, and I do this because I believe that it would do something more than give us a good magazine article; I believe it would illuminate the whole race question. Will you not be good enough, my dear Mr. Washington, to let me know what you think about this matter? Very sincerely yours, S. S. McClure TLSr Con. ~58 BTW Papers DLC. ~ Samuel Sidney McClure (~857-~949) was the publisher of McClure's Magazine. Born in County Antrim, Ireland, he was brought to the United States in 1866 and grew up in Indiana. Graduating from Knox College in 1882 after some experience as editor of his college newspaper, McClure became editor of The Wheelman, a Boston magazine devoted to the new vogue of cycling. In 1884 he established a syndicate, selling articles and stories of some of the leading writers of the day. In 1893 he founded McClure's Magazine, and when in 1903 it published articles by Lincoln Steffens on city bosses, Ida M. Tarbell on the Standard Oil monopoly, and Ray Stannard Baker on issues between capital and labor, the muckraking movement was born. McClure's remained for nearly a decade a leader in the journalism of exposure, even after some of its leading writers founded a rival journal, the American Magazine, ire 1906. McClure lost control of his magazine in 19~2, and from 19~5 to 19~7 he edited the New York Evening Mail. He regained control of McClure's in 19~3 but sold it two years later. McClure's chief contribution to discussion of race problems was an article by 168