Booker T. Washington letter (MS.2014.021)

This collection contains just one typed letter from Booker T. Washington to John C. Minkins dated November 2, 1907 on letterhead of The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, with an autograph signature of Booker T. Washington.

Transcription of the letter:

Mr. John C. Minkins, Box 1100, Providence, Rhode Island My dear Sir:- Your letter of some days ago, which I am just getting opportunity to acknowledge, conveys rather surprising information which I am very glad to have. So far as I am informed you are the only colored man in the country holding the managing editorship of a white daily, and this is recognition which is in a high degree encouraging. I hope I shall have the pleasure of meeting you at some time when I am in the North.

I am very glad to learn that you have read my talks to our students in the Chapel, which have been published in The Student, with interest. I am having your name and address properly entered upon the mailing list of the paper and hope it will continue to reach you regularly and be found of interest.

Yours truly, Booker T. Washington (autograph signature)