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FEBRUARY · ~ go7 To Ancirew Carnegie [Tuskegee, Ala.] February 2, 1909 My dear Mr. Carnegie: ~ hope that you and Mrs. Carnegie are well, ancL that your daughter is being greatly improved by the Florida climate. We are gradually getting the memoranda together to be used in connection with your Edinboro speech. We have just had an expert organ man here in order to decide the question as to which will be the best kind of an organ for our Chapel. ~ have told him and all others that we must be guided by your suggestion, and it is mine also, that we are to put no organ in the Chapel which will overshadow the voices of the students. This we have kept in mind. I find that the very smallest and cheapest organ that will in any degree answer the purpose will cost $7,500. have told the clealers that I would not move in the matter until heard from you. Yours truly, Booker T. Washington TLpS Con. 343 BTW Papers DLC. To Robert Curtis Ogden ''Tuskegee, Ala.] February 4, 1907 My dear Mr. Ogden: I have your good letter of February fist, and you do not know how very grateful I am to you for it. I often note that a problem seems more discouraging and disheartening when you are far from it than when you are right in the micist of it. I think if ~ were to live in the North I would become thoroughly discouraged and disheartened concerning Southern conditions, but being right on the ground one is likely to get many glimpses of light and encouragement which one would not get at a distance; I am not meaning to say, however, that there are not enough happenings to discourage the average man. I am more and more convinced that you are on the right track in lending encouragement and help to the right-thinking, right~og