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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers From Hamilton Holt New York, May use, 1908 My Dear Dr. Washington: I am planning to leave for Tuskegee probably next Tuesday afternoon or evening - I have not decided which, but I will notify your Secretary, Mr. Scott as soon as I look up the trains and definitely decide. In view of the malicious misrepresentation of the Cosmopolitan Club Dinner last Monday night printed in The American, and which ~ have learned, has been copied all over the South, you may think that if I should go to Tuskegee my presence there would be an injury to the School. Of course, I do not care for myself, but you have to exercise care and prudence. I leave the matter entirely in your hands. Very truly yours, Hamilton Holt P.S. ~ enclose a clipping from The Times2 which corrects the misstatements made about me, but as you know ''truth never catches up with error, if error gets the start.'' TLS Con. 372 BTW Papers DLC. ~ See An Account of the Cosmopolitan Club Dinner in the New York American, Apr. 18, 1908, above. 2 The New York Times reported on Apr. 18 that what was first described as a socialist affair was actually a majority of white men sitting with a majority of black women for the purpose of decrying the caste system in America and promoting a closer relationship between the races. No mention was made of Holt or his speech in this item. (New York Times, Apr. 18, 1908, i.) The next day, however, the Times contained a report that only one person at the dinner advocated interracial marriage. The item contained a denial by Holt that he advocated intermarriage and reiterated his solution to the race problem, which was education. Mary White Ovington also denied believing in intermarriage, the Times reported, but said she saw nothing wrong with educated blacks and whites sitting together. (New York Times, Apr. e9, 1908, 2.) 524