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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers Douglass Memorial Home Fund. We are deeply grateful for the interest manifested and for the substantial contribution made. It will serve to help us preserve Mr. Douglass' late home as ~ memorial in honor of himself as well as a memorial to the Negro people. It will become in time, we hope, what Mount Vernon is to white Americans. Anything you may do in the direction of bringing this matter to the attention of others will be greatly appreciated. I shall hope to read Mr. Merriam's book, ''The Nation and the Negro'' ~ very soon. Yours very truly, TLpS Con. 794 BTW Papers DLC. Booker T. Washington ~ George S. Merriam, The Negro and the Nation: A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement (New York, 1907). To William Loeb, Jr. PERSONAL. [Chicago, Ill.] April 6, 1907 My dear Mr. Loeb: I have just learned that Mr. I. W. Johnson has been transferred from the Consulship of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela to a small African port at the same salary.) I should be very happy if it can be arranged whereby if Mr. Johnson cannot be promoted at this time the President, can see his way clear, acting through Secretary Root, for Johnson to be left at Puerto Cabello unless he can secure a substantial promotion.2 I am not writing at all at ~ohnson's suggestion, as I am not even sure he knows of the intended change, but Mr. Johnson, who was the President of the Colored Republican Club of New York, along with Mr. Anderson, have done such effective work in that state that I would like to see him promoted rather than transferred without promotion. Very truly yours, Booker T. Washington TLdS Con. 249 BTW Papers DLC. Written on stationery of Tuskegee Institute. Charles W. Anderson wrote an even stronger letter of complaint. On hearing 256