The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.9, page 629, Oct. 1908, U. of Illinois Press

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OCTOBER · 1908 When will you be in this section? Yours truly, Charles W. Anderson TLS Con. 38 BTW Papers DEG. ~ John T. Cheshire, of Newark, N.~., was president of the Taft Club. 2 Presumably the reference is to a Republican party post held by Henry Algernon DuPont (~83~g:6), U.~. senator from Delaware (~90~7~. To Theodore Roosevelt ''Tuskegee, Ala.] October I, 1908 Personal. My dear Mr. President: I hope you will forgive me for troubling you again about the case of young Haralson, who was dismissed from the Naval Academy. I have very seldom seen a case where a young man seems to have so completely come to himself as he has. The experience of being dismissed and disgraced, as he was, seems to have made a new individual of him. His one ambition now is to return to the Academv and redeem himself in the eyes of the officers of the Government and his friends. Having been taught his lesson and received his punishment is there not some way by which he could be reinstated and given a next trial. Would it be of any use for his father to see you or the Secretary of the Navy? Yours very truly, Booker T. Washington TLpS Con. 7 BTW Papers DLC. To James Jenkins Dossen ''Tuskegee, Ala.] October I, 1908 My dear Vice-President Dossen: Your kind letter of August List has just reached me, and I hardly need say that I have read it with 629