The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.5, page 647, Oct. 1900, U. of Illinois Press

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OCTOBER l goo From Amanda Ferguson Johnston Maiden, W Va Oct. ~ ~ goo my Dear Brother the death of Aunt Sopha was a Shock to me. James Wright t was down Sunday & said She was as well as usal Thursday I Rot the Phone Sh was dead. The money yu sent I sent eight dollars to Cousing Sallie & two dollars to the white Preacher for His Services at the grave as there was no Colord one Heare. the men are all gone out to work up the river She died Happy. Brother I Lost my Cow Last night dont know what Caused Here deth2 She seemed Crazy it is a Heavy Lost to me I got the Pitchure Of mrs. Washington I Caried it all eaveing showing to the whites tell Dr. W. F. Shirkey3 is Looking for His Pitcure. Love to all from your sister Mrs Johnson ALSr Con. ~76 BTW Papers DLC. perhaps added later at Tuskegee. ''Mrs Johnson'' is in another hand, ~ James Wright, according to the Too census, was a twenty-two-year-old coal miner who boarded in the home of BTW's cousin Sallie Agee Poe. ~ BTW had apparently sent his sister the money to purchase the cow as she had requested in Mar. Too. (Johnston to BTW, Mar. 4, Too, Con. ~76, BTW Papers DLC.j 3 Wilbur F. Shirkey of Malden, W.Va., was a white physician, born in West Virginia in 1858. From Jesse Lawson Washington, D.C., Oct. 3, 1909 My dear Sir: Your very kind favor, of recent date, was duly received, and contents noted. Did I make it plain that Mr. Barney is to work up the case from the beginning? Start it in Louisiana and take it through the U.S~ Supreme Court. He wants Moo as retaining fee. I have heard nothing from Mr. McGhee2 as yet. I understood you to say, when we were in Indianapolis, that you had received Moo from parties in the North to assist in the matter of testing the v 647