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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers tween that young gentleman's talk to you and his talk about you, and you also see that Stokes is playing the game that I predicted he would play, even if restored to the Age. Yours truly, Charles W. Anderson TLS Con. 3~5 BTW Papers DLC. ~ Solomon C. Johnson, editor of the Savannah Tribune and a prominent black Mason. From Andrew Carnegie New York, January sth, 1907 My dear Friend, I have been honored by being requested to deliver the annual lecture before the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh next October. You would be surprised to read the list of my predecessors, from Hume and Adam Smith, Carlyle, Gladstone, to Choate of recent date. I was so deeply impress by my visit to Tuskegee that I felt I could give Britain a startling surprise by a cold recital of what the negro was when a slave and what he is rapidly becoming as a free man. You are the foremost authority on this subject, but I do not wish to add to your labors. It occurs to me that it might be possible for you to employ a suitable man (a Tuskegee graduate), who could give me the outlines necessary for my subject, beginning with the first importation of slaves, noting the outstanding facts and the increase up to the time of emancipation, and of course the latest Census returns, giving their numbers, homes owned, land cultivated, property, churches, professions, occupations, etc.—everything showing that the race is advancing as I know it to be in all the elements of · . . citizens alp. ~ noticed some figures from you the other day stating that so far you had not known a Tuskegee graduate committed for crime, and · . . · . giving partlcu ars ant various occupations. If your clever Secretary did not have enough to do, he would be the very man perhaps to give me the data in shape. I insist, however, that the one who does it must be liberally paid. 132