The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.8, page 455, Dec. 1905, U. of Illinois Press

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DECEMBER . 1905 officers and teachers. Aside from looking after the executive work of this institution, I have to raise over $~oo,ooo each year. This, with the numerous calls to serve the public in any number of ways, makes it almost impossible for me to do all that my heart would lead me to do in the way of furnishing contributions to such pubs lications as yours. Yours truly, Booker T. Washington P.S. You speak of making some statements regarding my not writing an article; this, it seems to me is unusual for a magazine of your character. It is perfectly right to discuss an article that I have written but quite unusual to discuss an article that I have not written. B. T. W. TLpS Con. 27 BTW Papers DLC. To Francis Jackson Garrison ''Tuskegee, Ala.] Dec. a, egos Dear Mr. Garrison: Yours of November Seth is received. I am very glad indeed that you are pleased with the preparations now going forward for the celebration of your father's anniversary. As I wrote you this morning, I am now more and more encouraged at the new evidences of interest not only on the part of colored people but on the part of the whites. I know of few churches anywhere in the country among our people where they are not going to observe the anniversary. I had no idea that it would be so uniformly taken up. In regard to Mr. Trotter, I would say that his case is almost a pathetic one. I have refused to give him any attention whatever. How any man with even common decency could attempt to drag such a sacred cause as the celebration of your father's anniversary into the mire and mud as he is trying to do is past my understanding. Certainly there was no excuse for anybody trying to create a disturbance or differ over such a matter. However much we may 455