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N OVEMBER · 1903 permanent and separate Minister sent to San Domingo. You know Powell now acts for both Haiti and San Domingo. In case this plan is carried out, would not this be a good position for our friend Fortune? It was through Fortune's influence a few days ago that the colored people in their state convention in New Jersey endorsed the President strongly. He is constantly doing this kind of work. He breaks out in a wrong way once in a while in his paper, but he can be controlled and is always open to reason. Yours truly, tBooker T. Washington] TLc Con. ~~ BTW Papers DLC. To Hollis Burke Frissell Tuskegee Alabama. November 3, 1909 My dear Dr. Frissell: You do not know how very grateful I am to you for your kind letter of recent date and how much your words encourage and strengthen me. I appreciate what you have done and what you say thoroughly. I shall be most willing to speak at the meeting in February which you suggest, only it is important that the date be fixed definitely as soon as possible so it will not conflict with other engagements. You speak of a general meeting. I do not know exactly to what this refers. I hesitate to place my opinion by the side of yours, but I do feel that a meeting definitely in behalf of Hampton would accomplish more than a meeting that had no special object in view. Hampton is a large enough institution around which to center the General discussion of Southern Interests. I think such a letter as you suggest to the Boston Transcript would be most helpful in many directions and I hope you will write it. I often find myself, among other colored people, becoming rather tried with Kelly Miller. The trouble is no one ever knows where to find hirn, he tries to place himself on all sides and keep in favor of all parties. If he could overcome that weakness I think he would become a great power. It is a little difficult to analyze the opposition that has manifested 325