The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.9, page 336, Sept. 1907, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers whatever can be said connecting him as the source of information. Yours truly, Emmett J. Scott TLS BTW Papers ATT. An Announcement of the Engagement of Portia Marshall Washington and William Sidney Pittman Tuskegee Institute, Ala., Sept. ~4 t~907] PI(TMAN WASHINGTON Mr. & Mrs. Booker T. Washington announce the engagement of their daughter, Portia Marshall, to Mr. W. Sidney Pittman, of Washington, D.C. The marriage ceremony is to be solemnized at Tuskegee Institute during the latter part of the month of October. TD Con. 3~; BTW Papers DLC. The item appeared in the Tuskegee Student, 19 (Sept. HI, 1907), I. To Ernest Lyon ''Tuskegee, Ala.] September 18, 1909 My dear Mr. Lyon: All of your communications have been received. There has been a delay in answering them owing to the fact that I have just returned to the school from my summer home. I am writing to say that I shall decide within the next few hours what will be the best manner of taking up the case of Liberia. The more I think of it, the more I am convinced that the wisest thing will be to make a perfectly- frank statement of the case directly to the President. I feel reasonably sure that he will do something to relieve the situation if it is possible for any American to do so. Please say to Bishop Scott that I am very grateful to him for his 336