The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.5, page 593, Aug. 1900, U. of Illinois Press

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AUGUST 1 goo may compete with others who seem to be reaping a financial harvest. I have not allowed and will not allow this to be done. Do not think that I do not try to please the people. But when I have about three persons ask for the Plantation Songs and about four score ask that we dance and sing songs which tell of Negroes stealing chickens, I make no pretensions to try to please. I want to express to you, here and now, my admiration of your happy faculty of working on amid so many discouragements, and further for your belief, not only in the philanthropic people of the country, but in the white race as a whole. I wish I could share that belief with you. I take it, however, that that very belief on your part has differentiated you from the average Negro and contributed in no small degree to your success. You have my best wishes. Very friendly, Isaac Fisher ALS Con. ~ BTW Papers DLC. ~ Fisher's discouragement surfaced early in the summer tour when he discovered that many northern hotels refused to accommodate the Tuskegee Singers. ''I may be wrong,'' he wrote to Warren Logan from Connecticut, ''but it seems that the people here are becoming more intolerant and out of patience with Negroes than formerly.'' He complained that it used to be hard to find accommodations for the singers in private homes but now the difficulty extended to hotels as well. ''Notwithstanding previous engagements of rooms which I have made at hotels,'' he wrote, ''five times already, I have been compelled to plead for accommodations on humanitarian grounds.'' He told Logan that on three occasions he was refused meals in dining rooms and had been asked to eat in the kitchen, which he refused to do. Dune ~3, Moo, Con. ~72, BTW Papers, DLC.) From Edgar Gardner Murphy Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug 7 Loo Dear Mr. Washington: I have just read your N.A. Review article and I thank you for it. It is wise in spirit and admirable in matter and in statement. The Negro Conference at Montgomery made a great deal of ''fuss'' locally, and locally did some harm, but I am glad it attained no national importance or significance. Councill approved it at first but as soon as he understood the situation he took an effective 593