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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers My plan: I will assume an other name; get about with all the people; give my business as a waiter and get a dinner job to prove the claim. Dinner men, in the large restaurants and cafes work from ~ ~ to 3 p.m. each day and some work from 3 p.m. to ~~ midnight I will get on the ~ ~ a.m. to ~ p.m. job for that will allow me sufficient time to do my work. I am certain I can do this work in that way for I am not known in Chicago. No one- would have any interest in Jack Cameron a waiter, just doing what he could to move in decent society and keep soul and body together with the aid of a pan. I will observe your instruction and keep my name out of the papers and will, I assure you, get all the information you need. I remain Faithfully yours Melvin Chisum. x Jack Cameron Unless you suggest a different name, which I will be glad to have you do if you like. ALS Con. 32 BTW Papers DLC. From Melvin Jack Chisum New York, N.Y. Etch 28th, 1906 My dear Dr. Washington: Allow me to thank you again and again for the ten dollars which you ordered sent me, it helped some and I am grateful. Enclosed please find advertisement of a colored gentleman who is going to ''get the world right,'' he may have the job. The Telegraph which he quotes is not only ''yellow'' but a paper without either clean clothes or character and most often utterly untruthful. 556