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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers marked that I ought to have known that a Negro cant keep a secret. Very truly W McKinlay How is the political outlook in N Yt?] ALS Con. 327 BOW Papers DLC. ~ Possibly Oliver Madison Atwood, a black Washington physician and pharmacist who graduated from the University of Michigan and Howard University. He died in 19~6. To Raymond Albert Patterson New York City, November 3, 1906 PERSONAL. My dear Mr. Patterson: I have just had the opportunity to glance through your analysis of the Negro problem, and in a hasty glance of it, it seems to me that you attach too much importance to the small fraction of the race North of the Mason and Dixon Line. The majority of the ten millions of the Negro race live in the South, and I do not believe any such conditions, as your letter emphasizes, exist in the South. It is true that there is a large element of the class with such education as you describe which gives them the opportunity to be heard in the newspapers, conventions and what not; in a word they keep up a great deal of noise, and deceive the unsuspecting. I have passed through several conditions, such as you have described, and I have learned not to suffer myself to become unduly alarmed or depressed. In the last analysis I find that the sober second thought of the race reasserts itself. Even in Washington, if you will brush aside the many so called leaders, you will find the great masses all right. I mean the common, hard-working class, and that is the class to whom I give my greatest attention. Some time while passing through Washington, I hope to see you and have a talk with you further on this subject. Very truly yours, tBooker T. Washington] TLc Con. 3 BTW Papers DLC. ~4