The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.9, page 457, Feb. 1908, U. of Illinois Press

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FEBRUARY · 1908 tempt so please don't smile or frown when my terms are read. Ten dollars a chapter I ask all expenses incurred to be paid by me. At this rate you have already settled for seven chapters. The World's Work material will be gathered and put into shape at once into one chapter. In that I shall include your ''Boley, A Negro Town in the West'' article from The Outlook of January 4th 1909, if you wish. My thanks are due to you, Doctor Washington, and which I now sincerely give for your kindness and the unusual privilege this matter has offered to me to do a kind of work that appeals strongly to me and for one who could put it to the very best and most effective use. Very truly, A. O. Stafford ALS Con. 3 BTW Papers DLC. From Oswald Garrison VilIard New York February 25, 1908 Dear Mr. Washington: I enclose, as you request, Mr. Taft's letter mournfully, for it is extremely discreditable reading and confirms my own unfavorable impression of the man as a candidate. You will observe that he says that he had decided to organize a colored regiment, that is, the best interests of the military service demanded it, but then purely personal considerations kept him from doing his duty. Pray, when did the Brownsville affair take a fresh political turn? Was it not political from the start? And since when have we in our political officers an inability to do what is right and just and fair to the negro race lest they be accused of political considerations? As a matter of fact, Mr. Taft does not meet the point that the regiments are already organized in full, and that he cannot create a negro artillery regiment without mustering Rout one of whites. On the whole I am sorry that ~ have seen this letter. Yours sincerely, Oswald Garrison VilIard TLS Con. BOW Papers DLC. 457