The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.7, page 322, Nov. 1903, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers ing well. Please give my regards to Mrs. Washington and believe me, Cordially yours, Chas. W. Chesnutt TLS Con. 5~5 ~ BTW Papers DLC. ~ Moses l. Gries (~868-~9~8), a graduate of Hebrew Union College and the University of Cincinnati, was rabbi of Tifereth Israel in Cleveland from 18 to 19~7. 2 Thomas Dixon, Jr. (~864-~946), born and reared in North Carolina, was a Baptist minister, lecturer, and author. He wrote several racist novels, including The Leopard's Spots (~902) and The Clansman (~905). Much of the motion picture The Birth of a Nation (~9~5) was based on The Clansman. 3 Russell Herman Conwell (~843-~925), a Baptist clergyman who revitalized Grace Baptist Church in Philadelphia, founded Temple University, arid was well known for his lecture ''Acres of Diamonds,'' which he delivered more than six thousand times. 4 Elbert Green Hubbard (~85~9~5), printer, editor, and lecturer, published The Philistine, a monthly magazine of common-sense philosophy, from 1895 to 19~5. His monthly sketches, Little Journeys, including one on Tuskegee, eventually filled fourteen volumes. In 1899 he wrote A Message to Garcia. He was a victim of the Lusitania disaster. 5 Samuel Milton (''Golden Rule'') Jones (~84~904), a Toledo industrialist, was a reform mayor of Toledo from 1897 to 1904. From Emmett Jay Scott Windsor Hotel Philadelphia Nov. ~/o3 My Dear Mr. Washington: As I wired you last night I have seen both Hawkinst (of the Lancet) and Murphy2 of the Afro-American. I spent 3 straight hours with Hawkins. He is the recalcitrant and am flattering myself that I pulled him around good & hard. He had all of the usual vague, indefinite, half-baked opinions to unload. I held him to the record & asked in every case for specifications! I utterly confounded him & appealed to his reason on the issue presented. He is in many ways a fine fellow & well worth holding onto. He confessed when we parted that he had new light & warmly praised my presentation of the cause, remarking as to the sincerity of it all, etc., etc., all of which while flattering is interesting mostly because it seemed to mark conversion! He is well-educated is a lawyer & has the paper on the side. He asked me when we parted to be his guest at his home at night & I went. He had a party of lawyers, doctors, teachers etc., to come in to meet me & seemed in every way 322