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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers that you represent an element that opposed his election but favor Mr. McKiniay because of his high personal and moral fitness for some office. I should like to talk the whole matter over with you when I see you. I sent your brother a check a few days ago covering the matter of the trip down the river in the summer. I am planning to move in a few days further in the direction of getting money for blotting out the debt on the Douglass property. Yours very truly, Booker T. Washington TLS Archibald H. Grimk~ Collection DHU. A press copy is in Con. 37~, BTW Papers, DLC. ~ Grimkb had written to BTW on Nov. ~3, 1908, reminding him of their earlier conversation about Whitefield McKinlay and BTW's promise to secure for him some such office as the recordership of deeds of the District of Columbia. (Con. 37~, BTW Papers, DLC.) From William Howard Taft Hot Springs, Virginia, November 23, 1908 My dear Dr. Washington: I want to talk with you and have a full and candid discussion of the subject. I should like to see you before the North Carolina dinner on the evening of the pith, but I don't like to ask you to come so far out of your way as Hot Springs. In your letter you touch a subject of great delicacy, one upon which I have quite definite ideas, but I am not sure how they conform to what you may deem an appropriate expression of them. I am anxious to cultivate the good will of the South, but I don't wish to do so at the expense of that class of the Republicans in the South who have upheld the banner of Republicanism at great cost to themselves and self-sacrifice. I should like to hear from you at once on this subject. I shall be at Hot Springs until the night of the 6th of December. Very sincerely yours, Wm H Taft TLS Con. 55 BTW Papers DLC. 696