The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.6, page 28, Feb. 1901, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers of our being able to get some good teachers from you. We do need! some very, very much. I suppose there is no place on the face of the globe where the negro has so good an opportunity as here and he is letting it slip. In property rights, in political power the negro is placed on a par with the Indian. Land, School privileges, even books are absolutely free. With all this the large majority live in hovels and eke out a hand to mouth living. What are we going to do about it? I think we need men imbued with your spirit. That is why I want to come to Tuskegee. I am the daughter and grand-daughter of missionaries to the Indians and my people came to this country with the Indians from the ''Old Nation.'' You know Tuskegee is a Creek name. Hoping for a reply at your early convenience, I am, Very truly yours, TLS Con. ~o8 BTW Papers DLC. Alice M Robertson t slice Mary Robertson (~8~4-~93~), born in Indian Territory, the daughter of missionary parents, worked for the U.S. Department of the Interior as school supervisor for the Creek Nation. She was a participant in the Lake Mohonk Indian Conferences from 1889 to 189~, and was a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, whom she met at the conferences. In Go she was elected for one term to Congress as a Republican from the second congressional district of Oklahoma, and was the only woman in Congress at that time. From James Hulme Canfield New York February 8th, egos Dear President Washington: I am under many obligations to you for yours of February fourth. There is no abating, I think, the force of Thomas's book. What I suspect is that someone else has put it together for him—for it is certainly scholarly and logical and extremely strenuous: beyond almost any other book that I have read for many a day. But the distrust which at once attaches to its exaggerated statements is quickened and strengthened by a knowledge of the life and habits of the author. I think it will do great harm, but not as much harm when all the facts are known. 18