The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.5, page 481, Apr. 1900, U. of Illinois Press

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APRIL l 90o From William Henry Baldwin, Jr. N.Y. tCity] April lath., Too Dear Mr. Washington: ~ send you copy of a letter ~ have written Mr. N. F. Thompson.i I have also written Mr. Willcox.2 I am very sorry that I cannot be at Pittsburgh. It is a physical impossibility. I have talked again with Mr. Jesup, and he is very anxious to have a meeting at his house between Dr. Frissel, you, and myself. He wants us to dine with him. When can you arrange it? He wants to start, at the expense of the Slater Fund, a national crusade, and to have meetings throughout the country under the auspices of the Slater Board. I am glad that the Seaboard Air Line is not discriminating on account of color. Get everybody you can to ride over their Road, and make no fuss about it, as the white people might cause them trouble. Mr. Spencer has not been able to talk any business yet. There is no use in attempting to settle matters with the Southern Railway until he can be seen. I return Secretary Wilson's letter. I hope it will keep Carver at his work.3 I note your suggestions about my Saratoga address, and am very much obliged for them. Sincerely Yours, W H Baldwin Jr TLS Con. 792 BTW Papers DLC. ~ Newcomb Frierson Thompson (b. 1844) entered the real estate and insurance business in Birmingham in 18 and was secretary of the Birmingham Commercial Club from 1893 to 1895. Later he was associated with northern capitalists investing in land and business in the Huntsville area. He edited the Citizens Alliance Bulletin, the organ of the Citizens Alliance of Birmingham. ~ William G. Willcox (~8~9-~9~3), a wealthy New York lawyer and insurance broker, was a trustee of Tuskegee for many years beginning in 1907, and also served on the school's committee on investment of the endowment fund. 3 Carver wrote BTW that ''unless my health improves greatly between this & the close of school I will be compelled to seek a new field of labor.'' He also complained that the correspondence in his agricultural work was ''too much for any one person to do.'' (Mar. I, Moo, Con. ~68, BTW Papers, DLC.) 481