The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.6, page 369, Jan. 1902, U. of Illinois Press

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JANUARY · ~ 902 In SO the Whitney family of Belmont became interested in my work & adopted my school which I named ''Whitney School'' for them. When the F. A. So. disbanded Rev. Mr. Clarke & Mr. Edward Whitney2 pledged themselves to the support of my school as long as I wished to keep it up. They nobly kept this pledge while they lived. Mine is a day school. I have a new School building which is on my own land. When I came here this was entirely an agricultural district. Since then the new town of Port Royal has been built & the Augusta & Port Royal R. R. been brought in. Phosphate Mines have been opened around me & the Naval Station on Paris Is. is in sight. Strange people quite different from those I first knew have come into my district. There is a great work to be done here, but I am not strong enough to reorganize & arrange these new peoples's] methods. There are good people around me, many of my old pupils who have children to be educated. It is my wish to put my school under the care of your board of Trustees at Tuskegee. I ask that they should send a normal teacher, —a man is needed who will teach & advise the young men 8c who will report to your board of Trustees. My school has no endowment. Most of the oIcI friends interested with me in this work have passed away. Gov. John A. Andrew, Rev. 8c Mrs Clarket,] Mr. Whitney, Mrs Stearns & Miss Mary Shannon & Mr. Edward Hooper3 & very many others who were personal friends. But there are many left who I am assured would gladly help to keep up the work here for my sake & to support a teacher from Tuskegee for their great interest in the work there. Rev. Mr. Ames, Mrs Ednah Cheney & Miss Clarke, are deeply interested in Tuskegee. They would be happy to know my work here was affiliated with yours there. Hoping to see you here, I am Cordially & respectfully Yours Miss Elizabeth Hyde Botume ALS Con. ~~ BOW Papers DLC. ~ Elizabeth Hyde Botume was among the first northern teachers of blacks on the South Carolina sea island of Port Royal, beginning in 1864 and continuing until 1902. She was the author of First Days amongst the Contrabands (~893~. Edward Whitney (~8~-96) was a wealthy Boston merchant, with interests also 369