The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.8, page 483, Jan. 1906, U. of Illinois Press

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JANUARY . .1906 in the heart of the horrors and gave testimony at hearings of the Commission, have been invited to come to this country. They will reach here probably about the Roth inst. They will speak widely. We wish to secure particularly for Mr. Harris the largest possible hearing and are anxious to have meetings in four centers, Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, which shall call out a great and influential company. Nothing could secure this so surely as your presence, together with that of Mr. Clemens. I proposed the Washington meeting to Mr. Clemens a couple of weeks ago and he agreed to the appointment. I did not then introduce the suggestion as to the other three cities as Mr. Harris's coming was not certain. I will write to him of this within a day or two and his interest is so intense that I feel sure he will endeavor to comply with the suggestion. How much it will mean to our cause throughout the country and with Congress if we announce Mr. Clemens and yourself, with Mr. Harris, for the meetings in these four great centers, I need not say. I told Senator Spooned of the proposed meeting for Washington and he was greatly interested, believing that it will count immensely as, of course, it cannot fail to do. Will you not write me that you will give this help and let me know the earliest dates open to you after the Bend inst.? I know of your meeting on that date in New York City and of your great kindness in arranging for the service by Mr. Clemens in connection with the Congo State. This will give a strong impetus and I hope will serve also the more immediate aim of the meeting. If followed up by a meeting clevoted distinctively to ache appalling situation in the Congo State, the result will be immense. I wish to ask also regarding your meeting on the wench inst. We have literature we are anxious to get into circulation. Would you feel any objection to the sale of Mark Twain's pamphlet, ''King Leopold's Soliloquy,'' on the street before the hall as the meeting closes?3 Would any use of literature inside the hall be practicable? We have small leaflets that could be distributed freely. You will unclerstand that I am far from wishing that even this cause shall intrude in a way to divert attention from the great work for which specifically the meeting is held. ~ believe, indeed, that the two movements, in God's good providence, shall reach on to one great end but there are proprieties which, of course, should be observed. 483