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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers store to have this remembrance from you. It will be a constant reminder to us of Mr. Douglass, and also of his worth and great work for humanity. We shall place them in our new Carnegie Library Building among other articles of value as soon as it is completed. ~ am glad to have had the opportunity of meeting you on the occasion of my recent visit to Chicago. Yours very truly, Booker T. Washington TLSr Small Collections Amistad Research Center LND. Signed in E. I. Scott's hand. ~ William B. Hoswell was president of the Hayden Brothers Lumber Co. in Chicago. A white man, he was born in Rhode Island in 1869. He and Frederick Douglass beeame friends during the time Douglass spent in Chicago as Haitian commissioner at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. From Emmett lay Scott Tuskegee, Ala., Oct ~7, ~ 9 My Dear Mr Washington: I congratulate you most heartily and sincerely on the especial mark of the president's favor shown by inviting you to have dinner with him and his family. It is splendid, magnificent! And you deserve it all. What pleases me more than all else is that the sometimes esteemed Atlanta Constitution has a long special about it and that it will get before our friends of the South in a way it might not ordinarily. The world is moving forward and I hope they will find it out sometime soon. My heart bubbles over, and I am so glad! I have a letter from Mr. McKinIayt saying you could make his house your headquarters. I hope you have gone there and that you found the quarters pleasant and satisfactory. I hope you like him too. ~ think him a good man and one sincerely devoted to the cause you represent. Again I want to congratulate you. I send Constitution. It is con. spicuously displayed. Sincerely Yours, Emmett J. Scott ALS Con. Alp BTW Papers DLC. ~ Whitefield McKinlay, a black businessman and Republican politician, was a close friend and staunch supporter of BTW. He was born in Charleston, S.G., in 18~' 25O