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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers been refuses! positions because when they were written to by persons wanting to employ them their letters were so poorly folded and written that they gave the impression that was anything but favorable. I wish you would take means to see that every teacher who has charge of any composition class spends some time within the next two or three weeks in teaching the writing and folding and backing of letters. Booker T. Washington TLS BTW Papers ATT. From Addison Wimbs Greensboro, Alabama. 3 ~ ~ / begot Dear Sir I would like to have a copy of the Memorial you as Chairman presented to the Constitutional Convention. I thought it would be in the Journal, but I fail to find it. I would thank you for the same. Your Friend Ad Wimbs The sky looks dark for us, but I still have faith in the final good to come to us under the New Constitution. In time we will have many legal Negro voters and through them the interest of the race can be protected whereas under the Old we had in effect none. The few legal Negro voters will have, that twhat] the few white voters in the black beats have had under the Old. The occupation of the ballot thief is gone and they know it. Ad Wimbs ALS Con. ~46 BTW Papers DLC. From William Edward Burghardt Du Bois Atlanta, Gal, Mch 4 1902 My Dear Mr. Washington: I am sorry that I was detained so long in the North with lectures that it was impossible for me to attend your conference, much as I would have liked to. 412