The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.6, page 24, Jan. 1901, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers ~ BTW accepted Feb. ~ ~ as the day he would speak. Jackson wrote BTW that receiving his telegram was ''one of the happiest moments in my life.'' (Feb. a, egos, Con. cot, BTW Papers, DLC.) BTW spoke before a full house that included many members of the state legislature. Blacks were segregated in the gallery seats while whites occupied the floor. The Richmond Times described BTW as ''a born orator. He is a man whose personal appearance would not attract any attention from those who would pass him on the street. He is a bright-skinned colored man of about the average stature. ''Washington's earnestness of purpose impresses an audience at the outset. He is at times in his remarks eloquent, pathetic, argumentative and humorous.'' BTW's speech was typical of his many utterances that stressed education and economic striving as the solutions of the race problem. (Richmond Times, Feb. lo, egos, i; see also Richmond Dispatch, Feb. As, egos, 7.) From Robert Wesley Taylor Boston, January 29, egos Dear Mr. Washington: Before I received your letter I had starter} on the trail of that unnameable scoundrels and ~ followed it up yesterday with the results herein stated. He has been around Boston for the last twelve or fifteen years and up until about nine years ago he lived with a woman whom he made believe was his wife and by whom he had a child. She was a poor, ignorant creature who had earned a little money by working Out tO SERVICE and as soon as he went through with all she had he cast her off telling her that the marriage ceremony they had was a mock one. While he was living with this woman another came on from Washington to marry him—Miss Barbara Pope, by name— but she was saved from his clutches through the intervention of Mrs. A. C. Sparrow of this city. Failing in his effort to get Miss Pope he married the woman with whom he now lives about nine years ago. This is all that is definitely known about his domestic life around here but it is believed that he has several illegitimate children in South Carolina, all now grown. His only visible means of support is the pension that he gets from the U.S. Government. He has no Law Office and so far as is known he is not a lawyer. How he got his title of ''Colonel'' nobody knows. The general opinion is that he assumes! it, and Mr. Wolfe the ~4