The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.5, page 571, July 1900, U. of Illinois Press

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JULY 1 goo TLc Con. ~79 BTW Papers DLC. ~ I. E. MacBrady was president of the American Publishing House in Chicago. The firm specialized in subscription books and the sale of Bibles. 2 Emmett I. Scott called BTW's attention to the design of the book and actually wrote this letter, which he forwarded to BTW for his signature. He advised BTW that the book was actually a reprint of N. B. Wood's The White Side of a Black Subject (~896) and that, the way it was now designed, BTW appeared to be the author. (July 3, 1909, Con. 182, BTW Papers, DLC.) BTW's name appeared much bolder on the title page than those of the other contributors, N. B. Wood and Fannie Barrier Williams. Despite the flattering comments that MacBrady wrote about BTW in the introduction, calling him ''masterful'' and an ''authority,'' BTW tried to stop publication of the book. (See BTW to E. l. Scott, July ~5,, Moo, below.) He eventually let the matter drop, however, when his friend and lawyer Samuel Laing Williams, husband of Fannie Barrier Williams, advised that BTW did not have a strong legal position in the matter. (See Williams to BTW, Aug. e7, Moo, below.) Even though he had misgivings about the book, Scott, who was editor of the Tuskegee Student, included a warm review of it in the official Tuskegee organ, which referred to the work as ''finely gotten up.'' (`Tuskegee Student, ~3 July ~4, lagoon, 3-4.) From Clara Johnston Maiden, West. Virginia. July, 3, Loo Dear Uncle Booker: I hope this letter will find you well, and getting along nicely. Please give me your advice, about what I'm going to ask you. That is this. I want Mother to borrow some money from the building association and have a house build in Slab Town. It is one mile from Charleston. The Town is just building up now, and we can get land very cheap. She can buy, build and move there. And do good work at raising poultry. It will be a great deal better for her health. The cloctor has said she will be an invalid in four or five years, if she keeps going at the rate she fist going now. I suppose Mamma has toic} you she keeps restuarant. And she has over worked her self. She never gets any more then four hours sleep, and at times not that much. Her home is going to rack. If she moves she can be right in her home all the time. Maiden has gone down so much to what it was when I was here. 5