The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.6, page 550, Oct. 1902, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers Boston papers you will find that none of them have used this matter. Of course before my daughter could enter another school she hail to secure a letter of recommendation from the authorities at Wellesley which the authorities there were glad to give. Yours truly, Booker T. Washington TLS Julian Harris Papers GEU. A carbon copy is in Con. zip, BTW Papers, DLC. 1 Julian La Rose Harris (~875-~963) was the editor of the Atlanta Constitution from 1897 to 1904. The son of Joel Chandler Harris, he had a long career as a newspaper writer and editor. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 19~6 for his articles on the Ku Klux Khan. From James Sullivan CIarkson New York, N.Y., October ~6th, egos Conf Jential Dear Doctor Washington: I have your letter of ~ 3th. You will have received before this my letter giving you pretty much in full the details of my visit to Washington and the interviews there. There is left only the matter of making an appointment or two in the North of some well known colored man, as a notice of the President of his loyalty and the equality of all men under the Republican party. I took him a list of Negroes holding once under national appointment, and he was surprised to find that there was no New Yorker at all in the list, so he instructed me to try and ascertain one, and if possible two worthy men to recommend to him, and also to find such men as would be agreeable to Senator Platt, as they would have to be charged up to New York State and would have to depend on the New York Senators for the certainty of their confirmation. I have now spent nearly a week in traversing the subject and trying to find some men whose appointment would be hailed by all the people of their race as the recognition of men of usefulness and high deserts. I am surprised to find this State with its large colored population possessed of Very few men in it in the number who are known all over the country. I am also obliged to 55O