The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.6, page 501, Aug. 1902, U. of Illinois Press

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AUGUST · 1 902 the time does come to use it we will have an amount that will be sufficient to do something. Yours very truly, W H Baldwin Jr TLS Con. 792 BTW Papers DLC. From Frances Benjamin Johnstont Atlantic City, N.J. Aug ~, egos Dear Mr. Washington. ~ am in receipt of your recent favor in regard to making photographs of Tuskegee and I regret that I have been prevented from giving it earlier consideration owing to the fact that I found my mother seriously ill on my return from New York and have since been busy with the preparations for getting her out of town and comfortably located at a sanitarium. In the absence of any definite understanding as to the extent of the work you wish done at Tuskegee I can give you as a basis of calculations the cost of the Hampton pictures. I received from them $~ooo.oo and the living expenses of myself and my assistant during a period of about six weeks. In return I furnished ~50 To negatives and 450 prints (3 from each plate) for the $7so.oo, the additional $~50.00 covering the expense of an almost complete set of duplicate negatives and many extra prints. The plates, of course, remain the exclusive property of the Hampton Institute. The season was most unfavorable and afterwards at Carlisle I did nearly the same amount of work in about half the time. As to Tuskegee, I assume that you wish to cover every phase of the life and training there; that you will require prints both for exhibition and publication and that you desire absolute ownership of the negatives. On this assumption I will make you a tentative offer of the same terms as I received at Hampton. For $~ooo.oo, the living expenses of myself and assistant, with our transportation from Washington to Tuskegee and return I will fully cover your Institution and its work estimating loo to ~5 8x~o plates for it and furnishing you four complete sets of prints, one set on platinum paper mounted for exhibition. Bob q'