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NOVEMBER · ~ 90 ~ it correctly, saying that this invitation was made not as a recognition of social equality, but as a recognition of the work which you are doing. I imagine that perhaps the Rev. Murphy has had something to do with this expression. It makes it very clear to my mince that you should be on the Committee for educational work in the South. That may be a point on which there will be a serious split, but it looks to me now as though that point should be insisted upon, and I certainly shall not give it up unless you say so. Yours truly, W H Baldwin.Jr TLS Con. 7 BTW Papers DLC. ~ Leonard Gaston Broughton (~864-~936) was the founder and minister of the Atlanta Baptist Tabernacle and a popular writer of religious books. He had a D.D. degree from Wake Forest College and was ordained in 1893. He was unfriendly to the Conference for Education in the South on the ground that it brought the ''godless'' influences of the northern millionaires to the South. Frorn Shepherc! :LincoIn Harris Lome Togo, West Africa, Novr. 3rd egos Dear Sir; I am glad to say that to day my time expiers here under the contract, but it is likely that I will be here until Christmas. This letter I am sorry to say must be in a different tone from the other one I wrote you concerning the experement, yet I can say truthfully that there was a time when the prospects were bright as I told you. In regards to the growing of the cotton; very truly it did have the crop on it that I spoke of in my letter, but what skillful labor and nature produced, only nature the mighty power which no science of man can change has defaced the whole crop. We have harvested only (2) two bales of cotton Tom the whole crop. The experement so far has been a compleet failure, I mean in this section where we are. There are other places in the colony that are more suited for the purpose of growing cotton, but in spitted of the many objections made the expert stoped right here under the mountains where it has rained regular since March. Then too other farms were to be planted over the colony in order to find out just ~5