The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.8, page 208, Mar. 1905, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers take for granted that you are not going to be there. Neither am I. I cannot bear such crowds, and especially the Washington crowd. Mr. Scott, however, is likely to be there. I presume you know about the meeting referred to in the enclosed communication. You and I both, it seems, have been given the black eye. It seems that the President is going to do something for CharIey Anderson sometime during the spring. I am anxious to see you. Yours very truly, Booker T. Washington TLpS Con. ~ BTW Papers DLC. From Emmett Jay Scott Washington D.C. March 6ios My Dear Mr. Washington: ~ have tried to keep my eyes & my ears open since I have been here. There is really not much to report. I attended the meeting of the Pen & Pencil Club Saturday night. Anderson, Kealing, Wetmore, McKinlay and a host of your decided friends were there. It was not a formal banquet. The men sat in the middle of the hall & on a screen certain caricatures were thrown. These were designed to show ''signs of the Times'' as they said. These were all very funny & without bitterness. The program was arranged by Pelham,~ Slaughters & A. S. Gray.3 When your picture was shown the whole company came to its feet with more 8c continued applause than fell to anything during the whole evening. My own picture was shown in connection with my work at Tuskegee & with you, with comment of a nature not unflattering. An imaginary conversation over the telephone was the only thing you might have objected to, but it was (resigned to be funny & not malicious. The White House was supposed to be calling up to ask if you were present. The reply was sent as follows without mentioning your name: ''No he is not here, but Emmett Scott his secretary is with a military attache (Maj Ramsey)—8: that the Tuskegee folks do not wish positions. They are content to stand behind 20~3