The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.9, page 49, Aug. 1906, U. of Illinois Press

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AUGUST · ~ 906 Enclosed I am sending you a clipping from the white paper published in Tuskegee. You will be surprised and pleased to know that the white Farmer's Institute in company with about two hundred from Auburn came and held a session upon our grounds. For several years they have been coming in a body to inspect the school farm, but I had no Plea they would get to the place to be brave enough to hold a session on our grounds and in our buildings and publish the fact to the world. Very truly yours, Booker T. Washington] TLc Con. 3z BTW Papers DLC. ~ The record of BTW's whereabouts during August 19~6 is incomplete. When carbon copies rather than press copies of his correspondence appear in the files, they are an indication that he was away from Tuskegee. BTW was in Chicago in late July, and in early August he made several stops in Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska before returning east to Bar Harbor, Me., on Aug. ~4. He was in Tuskegee twice in the later part of August, and in between he traveled to Columbus, Ohio (Aug. Eli). He ended the month in Atlanta, Gal, where he attended the annual convention of the NNBL. To Kelly Miller ''Traveling in Midwest] Aug. 4, 'o6 Dear Mr. Miller: I have received your letter of recent clate, and thank you for calling my attention to the different matters. I am glad that you and Mr. Grimke have written The Age in connection with the Warner Amendment. In fact the more I think of it the more I am convinced that the Warner Amendment would have been a good measure, and very helpful. I was in New York several days ago, and had a long talk with Mr. VilIard, regarding Mr. Ewings book, and he told me that after he had re-read the manuscript he was convinced that it was in no condition to publish, and that he returned the manuscript, asking him to revise it, but up to that time he had not heard from him, in regard to the publication of the book. I feel sure that unless it had the imprint of some reliable and well known Publisher the circulation would fall flat. If we could get some reliable Magazine or Publisher to father the Article the Committee of Twelve would 19