Correspondence 1904-1905 Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute For the Training of Colored Young Men and Women Tuskegee Institute, Alabama Jan. 4, 1904 My dear Mrs. Terrell, We received your appreciative note of greetings on our 25th anniversary just before I left home for Tuskegee. I wish to thank you for your kind words and for the Xmas greetings. I have been here a week aiding in the religious work of this institution. I go to Talladega, Ala, Talladega College, for a similar service next week. Mr. Washington left on the 1st inst for the North. Accept hearty good wishes for Judge Terrell and yourself for 1908 and many years to come. May they all be filled with health happiness and prosperity for you both and all of our friends . Nums. 1:24-46 Cordially your friend, Geo. W. Moore 507 W. Lanvale St Baltimore. Md Feb. 23- 1904 Mrs Mary Church Terrell; My Dear Sister: You promised me when I saw you last May that you would surely come and Speak at Sharp St Memorial Church At out First Women's Reunion which will take place Sunday March 13th At 8 P.M. We shall give you great welcome and a g t audience Please answer immediately Remember me to your husband my devoted friend. Tell him my James is doing remarkably well in school Yours Truly I.L. Thomas New York Evening Journal Editorial Rooms 326 T St. NW New York, February 23, 1904. Dear Mrs. Terrell: I have read with a great deal of interest your letter of the 19th and the article from the Philadelphia Post. I am very sorry to say, however, that it is impossible to grant your request. I return herewith the clipping and Mrs. Wilcox's card, with thanks for your kindness in submitting the matter to me. Yours very truly, A Brisbane Office of Supreme Commander Mrs. Lillian M. Hollister Ladies of the Maccabees of the world 307 Kirby Ave. West Detroit, Mich. Mar. 22, 1904 Dear Sister: Having been appointed to make arrangements with the steamship companies for rates to Berlin for the International Council of Women to be held June 7th, I take pleasure in informing you that I have been offered twenty-five or more berths on the Steamship Friedrich der Grosse of the German-Lloyd Line, which leaves for Bremen May 19th, at $80.00 each. Enclosed I am sending a marked copy of the a plan of the boat. Rooms 203, 329, 333, 337, 341, 345, 349, 353 are all inside rooms on the upper deck and have two in a room. Rooms 343, 347 and 351 are outside rooms and have three in a room. Mr. Kline, the agent here, assures me that these are first class rooms and first class service. I understand that Mrs. Swift and a few others have already engaged passage upon the boat. If you prefer a room to yourself, let me know at once. I may be able to secure rooms 107, 111, 115, 119, 110, 114, 118, 122, 132, or 129 outside rooms on Lower Promenade Deck, for $100.00, or rooms 108, 112, 116, 120, 130, 105, 109, 113, 117, 127 inside rooms on the same deck for $90.00 each. Rooms 102, 101, 104, 123, 121, 124, 126, each contain three adults and are $100.00 each person. If you wish to reserve return passage it can be done at the same time at a saving of 10%. Return passage can be reserved on any other line at the same rate. If you will let me know the date you wish to return, I can arrange this for you. If you take the $80.00 room, the [-2-] round trip would be $152.00 providing you reserve passage now. In order to secure these rates, we must reserve them at once, so I trust you will let me know immediately if you or any of your members expect to go, also which room and rate you prefer. Hoping to hear from you immediately, I remain, Fraternally yours, Lillian M. Hollister Treas. National Council of Women [seal] HW/O Emmett J. Scott Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute Tuskegee, Alabama March 22, 1904 Dear Mrs. Terrell:-- I am at home today and send you at once a word of thanks for your many courtesies and kindnesses during my stay with Mr. Washington at your home. I shall always recall the visit with real pleasure. Please remember me kindly to the Judge and to Phyllis. [Hastily, and] Very truly yours, Emmett J. Scott Mrs. R.H. Terrell 326 T. Street, n.w. Washington, D. C. Bund deutscher Frauenverein Internationaler Frauenkongress 1904. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell Washington Dear Madam, Frau [Schmitt] charges me to tell you in response to your letter of April 8th that an invitation to speak at the Berlin Congress [in section 2] on the subject of "colored female servants" has been sent to your address beginning of February, it must have been lost by the mail. I now repeat this invitation and as we have [now] seen your programme, we add another invitation to the first one. Would you give on June 13th in the evening meeting a report on "the Progress of Colored Women"? As we have very little time would 10 minutes be sufficient for this report? If this is not possible then let it be from 10-15 minutes. Hoping to hear from you concerning those two reports I am Yours truly Baroness Olga von Beschovitz Secretary of the Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine Dresden, Mozart Str. 5. April 19th 1904 OPENING of the New Home of the Washington Conservatory of Music 902 T Street, N.W. Wednesday, September 14, 1904 Friday, September 16, 1904 7.30 p.m. THE NEW YORK EVENING JOURNAL William Randolph Hearst 162 Nassau St., New York, Tuesday, December 29, 1903 The Progress of the Colored Race. by Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copyright, 1903, by W.R. Hearst The race problem seems to be solving itself, if we are willing to take the trouble to look into the matter. Here is what a few colored graduates of the Washington, D. C. High School are doing: Dr. West, assistant surgeon-in-chief of Freedman's Hospital, a high school boy, is said to have passed the highest mark in a competitive medical examination held a few years ago. Two of the wealthiest and most skilful colored physicians in Washington—Drs. Francis and Martin —received their scholastic training in the high school. Many of the colored letter carriers in the District are high school boys, who have won their positions fairly and squarely in civil service examinations. Charles L. Thomas, head of the biological department of the M Street High School and the Manual Training School, is a high school boy. As captain in the volunteer army during the Phillippine campaign, Frank Stewart rendered such effective service and so favorably impressed his superior officers by his superb qualities as a soldier that he was made President of a town in the Phillippines, the civil and criminal jurisdiction of which was placed in his hands by Uncle Sam. Both the Stewart boys, as they were called, while they were studying in the colored high school, were graduated from Harvard college with honor. Frank, the ex-President of the Phillippine town, is now practicing law in Pittsburgh, while his brother, Charles, is a dentist in Boston. Oliver Davis, another high school boy, now second lieutenant in the United States army, was the first colored man who passed the examination for a commission in the army from the ranks. Three of the finest lieutenants in the Spanish-American war— Thomas Clarke, Harry Burgess and William Cardoza—were all high school boys. If you should visit the training station in Newport today you would probably see Joseph Cook, another representative of the colored high school, teaching a class in electricity there. The first colored man who ever won the distinction of being commencement orator at Harvard college was Robert H. Terrell, who studied in the Washington High [remaining content blocked from view] [Water stains obscure the left side of most lines. Some content could be extrapolated, some not.] Wednesday, September 14, 1904 Program Conservatory String Quartette Rachmaninoff—Prelude Miss Mamie A. White [Beeth]oven Sonate, Op. 14, No. 2 [illegible]—To a Wild Rose [illegible]upt—Morceau Miss Ruth Grimshaw KAT[illegible]VANNAH—Good Bye, Sweet Day Mr. Thomas Heathman [illegible]—Prelude, Nos. 3 and 8 Gavotte in D Minor Mrs. Lovey Wilson Smith Kullak—Octave Etude Miss Bessie Patterson Mendelssohn—Concerto for two Pianos 1st piano—Miss Mamie A. White 2d piano—Mrs. Lovey Wilson Smith Brief addresses by Patrons and Friends of the School Mrs. Mary Church Terrell Hon. George H. White Mrs. Coralie Franklin Cook Dr. Klemm Hon. John P. Green and others Friday, September 16, 1904 Piano Recital Miss Mamie A. White Assisted by Pupils of Voice Department 1 Beethoven—Sonata Pathetique Op. Grave Molto Allegro Adagio Cantabile Rondo 2 Bach—(a) Inventions Nos. 1 and 8 (b) Gavotte in D Major Transcribed by William Mas[illegible] 3 Jensen—Galatea Grieg—Butterfly Grieg—Sonata Op. 7 Alla Menuetto Allegro Moderato 4 Mendelssohn—Concerto Capriccio Brillant Orchestral parts on 2nd piano by Mrs. L.W. Smith [Transcription only of the New York Evening Journal, other documents are light or obscured] THE NEW YORK EVENING JOURNAL. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST. 162 NASSAU ST., NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1903. The Progress of the Colored Race. BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY W. R. HEARST. The race problem seems to be solving itself, if we are willing to take the trouble to look into the matter. Here is what a few colored graduates of the Washington, D.C., High School are doing: Dr. West, assistant surgeon-in-chief of Freedmen's Hospital, a high school boy, is said to have passed the highest mark in a competitive medical examination held a few years ago. Two of the wealthiest and most skilful colored physicians in Washington-Drs. Francis and Martin-received their scholastic training in the high school. Many of the colored letter carries in the District are high school boys, who have won their positions fairly and squarely in civil service examinations. Charles L. Thomas, head of the biological department of the M Street High School and the Manual Training School, is a high school boy. As captain in the volunteer army during the Philippine campaign, Frank Stewart rendered such effective service and so favorably impressed his superior officers by his superb qualities as a soldier that he was made President of a town in the Philippines, the civil and criminal jurisdiction of which was placed in his hands by Uncle Sam. Both the Stewart boys, as they were called while they were studying in the colored high school, were graduated from Harvard college with honor. Frank, the ex-President of the Philippine town, is now practicing law in Pittsburg, while his brother, Charles, is a dentist in Boston. Oliver Davis, is another high school boy, now second lieutenant in the United States army, was the first colored man who passed the examination for a commission in the army from the ranks. Three of the finest lieutenants in the Spanish-American war- Thomas Clarke. Harry Burgess and William Cardoza- were all high school boys. If you should visit the training station in Newport to-day you would probably see Joseph Cook, another representative of the colored high school, teaching a class in electricity there. The first colored man who ever won the distinction of being commencement orator at Harvard College was Robert H. Terrell, who studied in the Washington High School, and who is now presiding in a Justice's court. The first colored man who was ever elected class orator at Harvard was Clement G. Morgan, another high school boy, formerly a member of the Board of Aldermen in Cambridge, Mass., and at present a lawyer of of good repute. The young man who won the Pasteur prize at Harvard College about five years ago, who was twice chosen one of three out of a possible 4,000 to represent Harvard in her debate, first with Princeton and then with Yale, the young man, who, in addition to all his honor, was finally elected class orator, was Roscoe Bruce, also a former student of the Colored High School. I am in receipt of a most interesting letter from George G. Thompson, principal musician in the Twenty-fifth Infantry, U. S. A., colored. Speaking of an appeal for justice and kindness to the colored race, published in this column some time ago, Mr. Thompson says: Apart from the appeal to the dominant race, it is an appeal to the man and womanhood of our own people, and is calculated to awaken a feeling of chivalry in the men and courage in women, and of hope in general among all the downtrodden and persecuted peoples. There is a desire on our part to live up to those words, and prove the author of them right; and there is also a spirit among the readers of the better class of the other race to look for cause and effect before condemning without certain knowledge. And that is an inestimable gain for us. It gives us a chance to appear in our best light, and many who see us only as beasts find that we are very human in spite of prejudice. The average colored person of intelligence does not want social recognition in the way the average middle and lower class people of the South think; in other words, the social equality that demands the right of entry into their private lives and affairs. What we do want is the recognition of ability and worth, and advancement according to merits in whatever branch of life's service may enter. We don't claim these rights because of a desire to marry the girls of white families. Such a suggestion is preposterous concerning us as a race. Neither do we want, nor expect to be given, admittance to any and all houses on terms of social equality; but we do want to so far remove the prejudice of color against the American speaking negro that he will not cause of comment and dissension should he be asked to participate in any kind of social gathering by those who know his worth. Mary Church Farrell is a colored woman, author, journalist and speaker, of brain and talent of dignified presence. The Colored People's Magazine of Boston is a publication which compares favorably with many of our most popular monthlies. It is edited and contributed to by the dark-skinned race, and is an evidence of the steady intellectual achievement of the colored people. Truly, as Booker Washington recently said, "It is time the white people realized that there is a higher as well as a lower class among the colored population." Bund deutscher Frauenvereine. Internationaler Frauenkongress 1904. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell Washington Dear Madam, Frau Schmitt charges me to tell you in response to your letter of April 8th that an invitation to speak at the Berlin Congress in section 2 on the subject of "colored female servants" has been sent to your address beginning of February, it must have been lost by the mail. I now repeat this invitation and as we have [now] seen your programme, we add another invitation to the first one. Would you give on June 13th in the evening meeting a report on 'the Progress of Colored Women'? As we have very little time would 10 minutes be sufficient for this report? If this is not possible then let it be from 10-15 minutes. Hoping to hear from you concerning these two reports I am yours truly Baroness Olga von Beschwitz Secretary of the Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine Dresden, Mozart Str. 5. April 19th 1904 F H Gilbert Real Estate & Livery Stable 15 Douglass St Bklyn. D.S. Willis Real Estate & Insurance 458 Carlton Ave Bklyn. John B. Nail Restaurant 6th Ave N.Y. Will send you a few more a little later should you desire them — For Mrs Terrell 4/25/04 Dear Mrs Terrell Thank you very much for letter received today — I greatly appreciate your kind words — Have asked her Chase of the Age to write something — He is writing something for the Freeman Indianapolis — Don't like to write of myself— Am not of sufficient importance— Am only working in a small way — Sincerely yours, F.P. Moore April 25, 1904 The Western National Bank of the City of New York Wilford H Smith Atty at Law 150 Nassau St and Member of the Afro American Realty Co — Philip A Payton Real Estate Agent 13 W. 131st Does a splendid business James E Garner General House Cleaning Business Runs 4 wagons, employs 15 men steadily and at times 75 to 100 James C Thomas Undertaker 493 7th Ave Does the largest business (will send you names of others) Metropolitan Mercantile Realty Co 15 Nassau St J.C. Atkins Treas. Virginia Transfer Co John E Greene Mgr. 453 7th Ave Wm A Heyliger Caterer Does a very fine business Residence 202 McDonough St. Bklyn. Wm H Smith Caterer 48 Wall St Lemuel L Williams Real Estate 107 W 32nd St N.Y. John B. Moseley 794 Fulton St. Real Estate Brooklyn Saml R Scottron Mfg Co. 598 Monroe St. Does a splendid business with the retail houses like, Wannamaker, Abraham & Straus & others, — pedestals and vases James C Marshall Hotel Marshallett C.M. Batley, Photographer — Peterson & Fortune N.Y. Age — The Moore Printing Co. F.R. Moore Mgr. 181 Pearl St N.Y. The Afro American Investment and Building Co Brooklyn N.Y. Oberlin College Oberlin, Ohio President's Office April 27, 1904 Mrs. Robert H. Terrell 326 T street, N. W. Washington, D. C.: My dear Mrs. Terrell: Mrs. King and I want to send you a most hearty invitation to be with us during your stay in Oberlin, and we hope that it may be possible for you to stay over until Thursday, meeting the graduating class of the Theological Seminary Wednesday night, and perhaps informally saying something to them at that time. We expect Dr. James Stalker, of Scotland, also to be with us, and I hope that he may be willing to talk to the men a little at that time, as well as in the commencement address the day following. I thought that these two addresses would certainly make the senior class reception unusually worthwhile, and we are planning to put it on that evening on this account. You will not need, I am sure, to prepare something new. You can use something that you already have, perhaps speaking on the subject "Opportunities of service opening in the South." Very sincerely yours Henry C. King The Independent 130 Fulton Street New York Editorial Rooms Telephone 3928 CORTLANDT Cable Address INDEFULT NEW YORK May 6, 1904 Mrs. Mary C. Terrell, Washington, D. C. My dear Mrs. Terrell;- I have by no means forgotten your very pleasant call which I enjoyed very much altho it was a good while ago, and it will be a pleasure to meet you again; but I do not see how we can use this article. We have published some considerable on that subject at one time or another, perhaps all we ought to at the present. What you say is certainly in the line of a proper solution of the difficulty. I am, very truly yours, William Hayes Ward Editor The North American Review Franklin Square, New York May 9, 1904 Mrs Mary Church Terrell, 326 T St., Washington, D.C. Dear Mrs Terrell:– I send you herewith, proofs of your article "Lynching from a Negro's Point of View". As you will observe, I have cut it down to some extent, but it still exceeds the length which would be most convenient for me. In reading it over, perhaps you can indicate portions that might be omitted without detriment to the article. Kindly return proofs by next post. Yours very truly, David A. Munro Subdistrict Court No. 8 Robert H. Terrell, Presiding 707 G Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. May 11, 1904 Darling Wife, A thousand congratulations on your success with Review. I have sent sketch and informed editor that you would send proofs on from Oberlin. Fondly, Berto The North American Review Franklin Square, New York Hon. Robert H. Terrell, 707 G Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. The North American Review Franklin Square, New York May 12, 1904 Hon. Robert H. Terrell, 707 G Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. Dear Sir:– Pray accept my thanks for your kindness in respond- ing to my telegram of yesterday, in Mrs Terrell's absence. Perhaps I can answer to you, some questions which Mrs. Terrell adresssed to me in a letter, which cane here while I was in England. (1) The article will appear in the June number. (2) I cut the article down, but not severely. (3) I propose to pay $75.00 for it. Yours very truly, David A. Munro Telegram B196NY R 14. 513pm New York May 11th, 1904 Mrs Mary Church Terrell, No 326 T St, Washington, D.C. Please send me by to-night's mail biographical notes regard- ing yourself for use in the review. D A Munro. Night Message The western Union Telegraph Company Number 3H Sent by RJ recd by X Check 10 Paid nite Received at: 7:50am 5-12 1904 Dated: Washington DC 11 To: Mrs Mary Church Terrell Pres. King. Oberlin O. Wait in Oberlin for proof of article from Review Congratulations R.H. Terrell Buus Sentlcher Franenvereine InternationalerFranenkongreh 1904 Berlin, den 27. April 1904. Friedrich Wilhelmstrasse 7. Sehr geehrte Frau! Frau Stritt hat mir Ihren Brief ubergeben und freuen wir uns, dass Sie am Internationalen Frauenkongress teilnehnmen werden. Wir erwarten ein Referat von Ihnen über die Lage der farbigen Frauen im Dienstboten-beruf. Redezeit 10 Minuten Mit verbinalichsten Empfehlungen Vorsitzende der Sektion 2 des Internationalen Frauenkongresses Internationaler [Frauenkungrek] 1904 Mrs. Mary [Church] Terrell Justice's Court Sub-District N.8. 326 T street N.w Washington D. C. Amt 6. 644. Mittwoch In Abend Verehrtes Fraulein werde mich freuen, wenn Sie Freitag Abend oder Sonnabend fruh zu mir ubersiedeln. Vorher ist leider uber die Stuben ver. note of yesterday. I am afraid it is scarcely likely that the Review will be ready by the date you mention But we shall see. The North American Review New York May 18, 1904 My dear Mrs Terrell I thank you for your letter of the 15th inst. Your article will appear in the June number of the Review just as you saw it in print, without further reduction I am glad to know that you did not think the force the paper impaired by the excisions I made At this late day, I don't Know what the prospect may be of making an arrangement with some publication for an article on the International Congress of Women, as, doubtless, most periodicals have provided for some account of that Convention. But it might be worth your while to communicate with some of them on the subject - say, Munsey's, The Independent, The Outlook, all of New York. Should you pass through New York on your way to Germany, I should be pleased to meet you, if you found it convenient to call here. Believe me, with kind regards, Yours very truly, David A. Munro May 19. The above was written last evening, and this morning's post brings your Virginia Union University DEPARTMENT OF THEOLOGY AND CHURCH HISTORY F. G. LEWIS RICHMOND, VA., June 11 1904 Dear Mrs. Terrell: I wish to express the admiration of Mrs. Lewis and myself for your article in the current number of the North American Review. Among the many discussions that have appeared, none seem to us to be weightier in fact, or to express the facts more pointedly or more attractively. My statement is a very conservative one, and is intended to be that, for this purpose of avoiding any appearence of extravagance. I think I should be perfectly safe in saying that none of the discussions so touch the heart of the matter and do it so happily. Being in the North American Review, I trust that it will be read by many thoughtful people and will thus come to have the influence which it merits. It was high time that such a word be spoken -- and the ears of some will surely hear. Very sincerely yours, F. G. Lewis Mrs. Robert H Terrell, Washington NEW YORK, July 12, 1904. 190 Judge Robert H. Terrell, 707 G Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Dear Judge:- Your note was received. We used the matter from the Post current in leads [*in the age,*] and [*I*] have made it the basis of one of the leading editorials on our women for the August Number of the Colored American Magazine. And you are to get your article in here as soon as you for we are waiting for it. As far as Mollie and Phillis are concerned nothing would please us better than to [*have*] you ship them off to Red Bank when Mollie gets back as yo u suggest. It is up to you. Jessie is not very well, but will be all right by the time Mollie comes. Think we can look at Mollie when she gets back? Whew! Yours in haste, [?] Washington, March 23, 1864 Register of the Treasury. Treasurer of the United States. Treasury Note. REVERSE. United States of America. This note is a legal tender, at its face value, excluding interest, for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt. Counterfeiting on altering this note, or passing any counterfeit or alteration of it, or having in possession any false or counterfeit plate or impression of it, or any paper made in imitation of the paper on which it is printed, is felony, and punishable by $1,000 fine, or 15 years' imprisonment at hard labor, or both. EDITORIAL ROOMS HARPER'S WEEKLY HARPER & BROTHERS FRANKLIN SQUARE NEW YORK June 17, 1904 Dear Sir: In response to my request of June 13, you were kind enough to send a half-tone cut of Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, of Washington. I presume that the half- tone was sent through an error on the part of one of your assistants. We use in the cuts for the Weekly a very fine screen and cannot reproduce from the cut you kindly sent. I am accordingly returning the half-tone to you herewith, and if it is not troubling you too much, may I ask if you will kindly have the photograph sent to me by return mail. With many thanks to you for your courtesy inthe matter, I am, Very truly yours, [?] HARPER'S WEEKLY Editor, The Washington Post, Washington, D.C. FIVE-TWENTIES OF 1862 (ACTS OF FEBRUARY 25, 1862, MARCH 3, 1864, AND JANUARY 28, 1863.) Length of loan, five or twenty years; redeemable after May 1, 1867; payable May 1, 1882; amount authorized, $515,000,000; amount issued, %514,771,600; sold at an average premium of .049 + of 1 per cent.; interest, 6 per cent., payable semi-annually (May and November); first issue, fourth fiscal quater of 1862; outstanding June 30, 1896, $218,600; included in the public debt statement under the title of "Old Debt." The first act, in order to provide for funding the Treasury notes and floating debt of the United States, authorized the issue of $500,000,000 in bonds, redeemable at the pleasure of the Government after five years, and payable twenty years from the date. The second act authorized an additional issue of $11,000,000 in bonds to persons who subscribed for the loan by January 21, 1864. The third act authorized an additional issue of $4,000,000 of these bonds, to be sold in the United States or Europe. The Memphis Tenn. August 8th, 1904 Ms. W.A.H. Wormley Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Wormley, I think you for your kind invitation to be present at the Welcome Reception of Mrs. Terrell and regret that business engagements will prevent my attendance. Please allow me to add that I appreciate this splendid compliment to my daughter more than I am able to express in words. Yours sincerely, R.R. Church [* The Country 75 Bayley gives "the premium [ ] in the 'Receipts and Expend- [993.75] was on the sale of Five- [ing] warrent No. 408 of September [f] these bonds were purchased for [e] United States at New York, at [eing] $1,370.62, as per pay warrant [ ] of March 31, 1875, the latter filed [ere] was a rebate of interest on this that of 1874, both inclusive, there [nging] from 6.47 to 15.9 percent. Bayley does not show any pre- [ount] of $1,441.369.68 was all paid 1864, and 1865. The interest paid Register's Office 1000 [ ] the [rica] [ ] Dollars, redeemable at the pleasure of [le] after the 30th day of April, 1882, with [cent.] per annum, payable on the first days [ ] by act of Congress approved February *] [* Register U.S. Treasury [ate] from date; amount authorized, no [41.65;] sold at par; interest, 6 per [outstanding] June 30, 1896, $3,000; [le] of "Old Debt." [es] named, to public creditors who date, or earlier, at the option of [e] of these certificates in payment the interest payable in lawful [ ] on account of premium" on this [0,000,000] in certificates purchased [ ] August 5, 1862) was covered in The $3,183.75 balance (deposited [743] of June 30, 1866, erroneously *] President, Beriah Wilkins Secretary, John F. Wilkins Treasurer, Robert C. Wilkins The Washington Post Co. Washington, D.C. June 22, 1904 19 Mr. R.H. Terrell, Justice of the Peace, City Dear Mr. Terrell: - Harper's Weekly desires a photograph of Mrs. Terrell, as you will see by the enclosed letter. Please answer the same. Yours truly, Scott C. Bone Editorial Rooms Harper's Weekly Harper & Brothers Franklin Square New York June 28, 1904 Dear Sir: I have your letter of June 25, together with the portrait of Mrs. Terrell which you were good enough to send. Please accept my cordial thanks for your courtesy in the matter. Yours very truly, Editor Harper's Weekly Hon. Robert H. Terrell, 707 G Street, N.W. Washington D.C. [* [March] 17, and July 11, 1862, and [s'] notice; amount authorized, [amount] outstanding to contract, [of] 1862; outstanding June 30, [er] the title of "Old Debt" $25,000,000 for not less than [payable] after ten days' notice. [ts] to $50,000,000, at rates of [authorized] a further increase of further increase not to exceed decrease of the rate of interest [uire]. The interest paid was *] [* [February] 25, 1862). [11,] 1862, act June 30, 1864.] [rer] of the United States, New York, ---, 186-. [ays] to the credit of the Treasurer of --- per centum per annum will be [y,] after ten days' notice upon the Original --- ---, Assistant Treasurer. *] [* [over] *] (Transcription of top letter, paper underneath is obscured) June 9. 1904 Dear Madam. I have read with deep interest & with the impotent shame that every fine American suffers in the face of the fact-your direct-& fear less article in the current number of the American Review. My regret is that in this [ ] and publication the circle of your readers is necessarily limited I would suggest- if you feel it to be within your powers. That you embody these truths (with moderation and justice) in the form of the novel. You possess the fervor of conviction (which is of first-value in such an effort) and that can easily carry your work above the difficulty of literary expression. There has lately been published a book written so and with justice upon the case of the Jews in Austria 'Idyls of the Gass' - a story of wrong written about the life of a child. With the [business?] of the question of the Negro to us all. I believe a book of that sort would have a wide influence upon the mind of the public. By Faithfully yours, Bruce Porter To Mrs. Mary Church Terrell [VISIBLE PRINTED PAGE] COUNTRY 83 alance, January 14, 1862- nd New York, $3,937,500; payments interest was paid s, $124,258 (report 143279) ,903 (report 145,977); total, ar 1862, per the "Receipts" ts on account of the regular erly threw out of that loan $5,625,000 as a subscription Y 17, 1861.) nd October 1, 1864; amount at an average premium of annually; first issue, August the public debt statement 150." ding $250,000,000, for which sued in such proportions as g 7 per cent., the notes to be e rate of 7.3 per cent. per zed the issue of a part of the ese bonds to be exchanged m. but no such bond was to such bonds to exceed the $650,320.44 premium was mount of $36,504.35 was paid 863. The interest paid was .19 and Oct. 1, 1861). OBVERSE Interest one cent per day. $50 Three years after date . $50 The United States promise to pay to the order of ------ Fifty Dollars, with 7 3/10 per cent. interest, payable semiannually. Washington, August 19, 1861. ------ ------, ------- --------, Register of the Treasury Treasurer of the United States. Convertible into 20-year 6 per cent. U.S. bonds, act of July 17, 1861. Five coupons attached, last six months' interest payable with note, prior installments payable only on presentation of coupons therefor. [Letterhead of the Washington Post Co., Washington, D.C.] June 22, 1904. Mr. R. H. Terrell, Justice of the Peace, City. Dear Mr. Terrell:- Harpers' Weekly desires a photograph of Mrs. Terrell, as you will see by the enclosed letter. Please answer the same. Yours truly, [signed] Scott C. Bone [Letterhead Editorial Rooms Harpers' Weekly, New York] June 28, 1904 Dear Sir: I have your letter of June 25, together with the portrait of Mrs. Terrell which you were good enough to send. Please accept my cordial thanks for your courtesy in the matter. Yours very truly, [signed] Editor HARPER'S WEEKLY Hon. Robert H. Terrell, 707 G. St., N.W., Washington, D.C. Lewis Douglass, Real Estate Broker, 2002 17th St. N.W., Washington, D.C., June 30th, 1905 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Dear Madam: It is hard work for me to write owing to my affliction. I am trying to pen you a word for my gratefulness though I have to write with my left hand. You will weigh my gratitude with full justice when I tell you that you have uttered the truth in your article "Lynching from a Negro Point of View." You have told the truth and you have my thanks for your daring. (I know of no other of our race who has been true to womanhood as you have been to have told the truth with as much directness as you have given it to the public. My thanks are due to you and I give them with a heartiness that is boundless.) Yours with great respect Lewis H. Douglass Friend Terrell: Will you give the inclosed letter to your wife when she comes home. I have read her article. She is the greatest woman that we have. I am getting along pretty well. I am trying to learn to write with my left hand. Tell her that her article is a master piece. Yours truly Lewis H. Douglass in the recent parliament of women, which met in the City of Berlin, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell deserves the thanks and praise of the American people. Yours truly, Walter H. Brooks Pastor, Nineteenth Street Baptist Church Residence 1419 Corcoran St. NW ps. Will give notice of the testimonial at my Sunday service, Aug. 7th Washington, D.C. August 5, 1904 Mr. Charles R. Douglass Dear Sir, While I have given substancial proof of my sympathy with the movement to tender Mrs. Mary Church Terrell a public testimonial, on her return from Europe, I have at no time cherished the expectation of being among the thousands, who, on the evening of August 10th, inst, shall assemble to do this distinguished lady the honor, which her services, at home and abroad, so richly merit, as my arrangements for the summer will not permit me to be present. Permit me, however, to say, that, for all she is, as a woman of culture and character, and for all she has done, in serving her own people, and in standing forth as a Representative American. John E Milholland Esq 4 Prince of Wales Terrace Kensington London The Review of Reviews Edited by W.T. Stead Telephone No.2867 Mowbray House, Telegrams "Vatican, London." Norfolk Street, Strand, London, W.C. Dear Mr Milholland July 15 1904 This is to introduce to you Miss Mary Church Terrell the coloured lady who wrote that admirable Article on the lynchings in the South In the North American Review which I noticed in the Current Review of Reviews I am Yours truly W.T. Stead National Purity Conference La Crosse,Wisconsin, U.S.A., Oct. 17-19, 1905 This is the "last call" for the National Purity Conference. For the past several months we have been announcing the Conference by circulars and in hundreds of publications throughout the United States and Canada to acquaint friends of the Purity movement every-where with the time and place of the meeting. The preliminary arrangements, which have been more successful than we could possible expect or hope for, are now complete. The most eminent workers in our country will attend, and lend themselves unreservedly to the work of the Conference. A program is provided which could not be excelled either as to the subjects treated or the personnel of the speakers. The railroads have granted most liberal and convenient rates. La Crosse is prepared to extend every courtesy which can add to the comfort of delegates or aid to facilitate the work. The purpose of this Conference is to give careful consideration to and an opportunity for the thorough discussion of the present situation in our Country as pertains to the cause of Purity and the evils against which we are fighting and to decide upon and formulate definite working plans for an aggressive, united, forward movement. Rescue work, preventive methods, the traffic in girls, law enforcement, divorce, race suicide. State toleration of the Social Evil, additional laws now needed, will each and all receive attention, while methods of agitation and education for promoting a higher standard of purity in family and individual life will be recommended. No person who is interested in amy phase of the entire purity movement will fail to find their special subjects fully covered in the discussions and addresses. The two morning sessions will be devoted entirely to conference, and every delegate who desires to address the gathering will be given opportunity at one of these sessions. This is the most important gathering of Purity works ever held in this country. But one thing is now required to make it successful in accomplishing the great purpose for which it meets; and that "one thing" required is a large attendance. At least a thousand delegates from all parts of our country should rally to this call. In no other way can so an effective a blow be struck against the greatest evil in the world, or greater aid be given in instituting an aggressive, concerted. forward movement in "the greatest reform this world will ever see." Therefore, we urge upon all Christian and reform organizations to send delegates, and upon individual friends of the movement everywhere to come, and invite others to come, and join with us in this Conference, no matter what sacrifice or effort may be required, for the work's sake. For any further information as to the entertainment of the delegates etc., address B.S. Steadwell, La Crosse, Wis. COMMITTEE. B.S. Steadwell, Chairman, La Cross, Wisconsin Pres., Northwestern Purity Association. Elizabeth B. Grannis, 5 East 12th Street, New York City, Pres., National Christian League for Purity. O. Edward Janney, 837 N. Eutaw St., Baltimore, Md. Pres., American Purity Alliance. J.B. Caldwell, 81 Fifth Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, Pres., National Purity Association Post Office Telegraphs West Central District July 13, '04 St James St. To: Mrs Church Terrell Care Quietude Lane Only just returned can you call four thirty tomorrow Thursday afternoon Lady Warwick Warwick House St James Review of Reviews London Mowbray House, Norfolk St. Strand, W.C. Mrs Terrell West Central Hotel Holborn London July 17, 1904 My Dear friend & Comrade Herewith a letter of introduction to Mr. Bunting I hope it will help you. You deserve help and will command it. It was a sincere pleasure to me to meet you yesterday. I hope that we may meet again. And what is perhaps even better I feel confident that the words feel inadequate though they were which I was privileged to address to you will dwell in your heart as a glowing flame of hope and courage to warm & cheer ???spirit you in dark days or darker nights. May God bless you & make us both more & more continuously grateful that he has chosen us to be his junior partners in the cause of His priestess woman Join Yours gratefully [ ] Nead Telegram 289 Mrs Church Terrell c/o Fred Smith 101 Soton Row Post Office Telegraphs, July 16, '04 Handed in at Dunmow 11:15 AM Mrs. Church Terrell Care Quietude Ldn I had leave town important pressing business shall return Monday can you call see me Monday six o'clock afternoon so very sorry about Wednesday Lady Warwick Easton Dunmow Essex The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute South Weymouth, Mass. August 1, 1904. Hon. John C. Dancey, Office Recorder of Deeds, Washington, D.C. Mr dear Mr. Dancey:- I have received the invitation to attend the reception to be given to Mrs. Terrell, and regret very much that engagements long since made will pre- vent my being present to do honor to one who has won such a notable success abroad in behalf of our race. I am glad to see, however, that the citizens of Wash- ington are taking the proper method of giving her fitting recognition. There are several matters which I want to talk with you when I can see you, but I have not been able to be in Washington during the summer, but hope we may meet by chance, if in no other manner, sometime soon. Yours very truly, Booker T. Washington W.H. Baldwin, Jr. 128 Broadway, N.Y. COPY July 15th, 1904. Mr. Archibald H. Grimke, 1415 Corcoran Street, Washington, D.C. My Dear Sir: I take the liberty of writing you my word of commendation of your article which appeared in the "Atlanta Monthly". It is the best exposition of the subject that I have ever seen. I have called the attention of various persons to it. You have stated the case logically, philosophically and ethically, and in the end the principle which you have laid down will control. I feel very much elated to see your article this month, (and also the article of Mrs. Terrell.) With kind regards, Yours truly, (Signed) W. H. Baldwin, Jr. [Aug 4, 1904] 1, Garden Court, Temple, E.C. Dear Madam If you were to send an article of 3000 or 5000 words on the difficulties in the way of the U.S negro, and something about the real statistics of lynching briefly put )for of course you cannot repeat your interesting article in the N.A. Review which I read) — we shall be very glad to look at it on approval. Yours very truly G.M. Trevelyan –> temporary editor Independent Review c/o E Jenksby 1 Garden Court Temple London EC. Oberlin College Oberlin, Ohio President's Office August 6, 1904. Mr. dear Mrs Terrell: I want to congratulate you as well as the College upon the fine impression evidently made by you at the Berlin Congress. It must have been a great satisfaction to you, as it was to your friends. With most pleasant memories of your visit, here, I am, Very sincerely yours, Henry C. King Mrs Robert H. Terrell, Washington, D.C. 2506 K Street My Dear Mrs. Terrell I have [ ] friends capable of such an intellectual effort as yours in N.A. Review of June___ Accept my hearty congratulations. Oberlin College Oberlin, Ohio President's Office August 6, 1904 My dear Mrs. Terrell: -- I want to congratulate you as well as the College upon the fine impression evidently made by you at the Berlin Congress. It must have been a great satisfac- ton to you, as it was to your friends. With most pleasant memories of your visit here, I am, Very sincerely yours, Henry C. King Mrs Robert H Terrell, Washington, D.C. The brilliant southerner is its ardent admirer. In fact there can be but one verdict - admirable. I hope all is well with you in your interesting trip. Yours sincerely, Julie Guinevere [?????] This address always finds me. I go to a private camp in the Adirondacks in July. The Concord_August 8th, 1904 the receipt of your invitation to attend the reception to Mrs. Terrell for the evening of August tenth, & to say to you that I hope my health will permit me to be there. I wish our newspapers would give fuller accounts of the Congress at which Mrs Terrell distinguished herself, and the incidents connected with Mrs Terrell's addresses in German & French. In this way people would understand more fully why this reception should be tendered her. Sincerely yours, John Eatreu Coleridge-Taylor Concerts, Convention Hall, Nov. 16th and 17th, '04 Board of Managers: John F. Cook, President. Miss Lola Johnson, Vice-President. Andrew F. Hilyer, Treasurer. Thos. A. Johnson, Financial Secretary. Prof. John T. Layton, Musical Director. Dr.J.E. Rattley, Librarian. Arthur S. Gray, Secretary. 2302 Sixth Street, N.W. Dr. F.J. Cardozo, Dr. W.H. Conner Jno. W. Cromwell, R.J. Daniels, Miss Harriette A. Gibbs, Miss Marie C. James, Mrs. Robert Pelham, Jr. R.W. Tompkins, The S. Coleridge-Taylor Choral Society Incorporated 1903 Andrew F. Hilyer, Treasurer, 2352 6th St. N.W. Washington, D.C. August 11.04. Dear Mrs. Terrell - I wish to express to you my thorough appreciation of your efforts for the race, and of the great good you have accomplished by your attendance and speeches at the recent International Council of Women at Berlin, Germany. I must also compliment and thank you for the masterly address you made last night. It was a great meeting and a great occasion, and sure all left it highly edified and encouraged. Yours, Cordially, Andrew F. Hilyer J. Douglas Wetmore, Attorney at Law, Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. H. C. Tysen, 2124 K. St., N. W., Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. Tyson: It was very kind of you to remember me, and I assure you I appreciate the honor of being invited to the reception to be given Mrs. Mary Church Terrell on the 10th inst., and I regret very much my inability to attend. I had already planned to leave home on the 13th inst. for an extended vacation, and I cannot possibly change my plans at this late date. Remember me very kindly to Mrs. Terrell, and tell her I feel that she is deserving of all the good things the magazines and papers have said concerning her and the valuable services she rendered the race while in Europe. And also tell her that I feel proud that I am able to say that she is a friend of mine. Again thanking you for your kind invitation, and wishing a very pleasant time for the guest of honor and all present at the entertainment, I am, Yours very truly J. Douglas Wetmore. Aug. 8, '04. [* an average rate, net, of 8.74 per cent discount. The total discount was $135,402.08, *] Tuesday, Aug 16. 04. My dear Mollie:_ Ever since I heard of your return I have wanted to write you a long letter, but I have been, and am still, head over heels in work of the most ordinary kind + there seems to be no "let up" ahead for me, so I just frittle in to say 'howdy do' & to tell you with what pride & pleasure I read of your triumphant tour abroad. I was kept posted through the kindness of Wm Judge & I think him a dear good fellow. & intended to write & tell him with what satisfaction 2 I chuckled over three articles. From the frenchman's point of view you [ ] the white thing & I agreed with him of course. I knew you'd [ ] the spots out of the other side when you begun to say things so I'm not one bit surprised. Some times when you get through receiving congratulations if you ever do, sit down & describe your "glad rags" for dears interested in em" & want hum just what you did have in that so dazed the frenchees am. Your dad declared to me confidentially that his head was swollen beyond the usual size & his hat band had been changed several times. 3 Your husband is in the same fix no doubt & I dont blame him. Criss Jessole has been fruttering indeed here in an unusual way. Wanted to come & help welcome you but as that was impossible wrote the longest letter imaginable full of his sentiments. You fear you & Mr Terrell wouldn't know just how he felt I think he sent you a copy. So you see, we all have a feeling of personal pride & are basking in the light of reflected glory which you have shed upon us. "Just because you're from Memphis". Am getting ready in a half hearted sort of way to take the boys to St. Louis but I have (over) 4 almost no desire to go. Am just keeping my promise to them. Had hoped to meet you there but you were doing stunts before the Empress of Germany. Will probably leave here on the 24th. Kiss Phylliss and lots of love to all. Tell the Judge "Thanku". Lovingly [A?] Mollie you were so kind & thoughtful to send me that goodbye letter while on board the "What-do-you-call-it" after you had sailed. I sobbed like an infant & slept with it under my pillow for many nights just as a much younger person might have done. Well my heart is still young & true & my appearance the same. Am still wearing sailor hats A. Aug. 26, 1904 To the Editor of Collier's Weekly, Permit me to thank you from the very depths of my heart for that fine editorial on that barbarous lynching in Ga. which appeared in this week's issue of Collier,s Weekly. I have never read one which expressed my view on the matter so succinctly and strongly as does yours. In the June number of the N.A. Review I have an article on Lynching from A Negro's Point of View, which you may have seen. When I think of the cruelties constantly perpetrated upon my defenceless race and see how our former friend, the North, sits calmly by and lets the tragedy go on, I wonder what the end of it all is going to be. I am not a pessimist, but it is hard to see the light in the density of the darkness which surrounds us to day. Not long ago you published a story written by Thomas Nelson Page, in which he heald the educated Negro up to ridicule and scorn by painting a character which is as impossible as it is vicious and disgusting. Of course you cater to the taste of your readers, and I find no fault with you for that. I am only grieved to my heart that the readers of your magazine can find any pleasure in such a slander of a race already resring under burdens greater than it can bear. The press in the North has closed its columns to the Negro's side of the story, but the South can always finds columns open to its falsehoods and travesties of the race for whose vices and defects it is largely responsible. I did not mean to write so much on this phase of the subject, when I started? Perhaps you may have read that a colored woman addressed the International Congress of Women which recently met in Berlin Germany. I am that individual, and I inclose a few comments upon my address from the press of this country and from France. Please note especially what M. Remy, the correspondent of the Temps says. When you read the editorial from the Washington Post, please remember that it is southern in sympathy and sentiment and marvel at the breadth of the editor who wrote it. There are many southern people whose hearts are all right on the race problem, but who dare not live up to the light they have. The South is a despotism in which there is no such thing as freedom of action and speech at variance with the teners to which the majority hold. I wonder whether you would care to have an article on some phase of the race problem from a colord woman's point of view. The South has been heard against us, will you not let the accused say a word of defence? Whether you decided to take an article from me or not, I am just as grateful to you as - can be for that manyly humans expression against the burning of those two poor, ignorant, wicked wretches to whom I cannot forget that I am bound by the ties of blood. I might add hers, too, that one of my best friends I ever had, who was present at my wedding and who gave me one of the handsomest presents I received was lynched in Memphis Tenn? some years ago for no other reason than that he was too prosperous. pardon me for trespassing so your patience and your time. 2. Cheyne Gardens London, S.W. [Sep 7, 1904] Dear Madam Many thanks for your letter. Will you send the article to me here, when you have done it. Our pay is two pounds for a thousand words. Yours very truly J M Trevelyan ... The Independent 130 Fulton Street New York Editorial Rooms Telephone 3928 Cortlandt Cable Address INDEFULT NEW YORK September 8, 1904 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, 326 T St., N.W. Washington, D.C. My dear Madam:- Your letter to Dr. Ward has been handed to me for reply. I am glad you liked our editorial some weeks ago which mentioned you. If you would care to write the short article about Samuel Coleridge Taylor, I think very likely we can use it, tho I cannot promise definitely in advance. At any rate, will you not send it to us? with photographs Very truly yours, Hamilton Holt Managing Editor [*From Haydee Campbell, we were little girls together. She was the head of the kindergarten in St. Louis. She writes about the Biennial of the NA of C Wm St. Louis in 1904*] St Louis, September 15th, 1904 Mollie Darling: This is "St Louis" day at the Fair but my loyalty shall be first to you. I suppose you have wondered why I should have been silent so long but Mollie I have done so much work this summer. I have had boarders most of the summer and did all of the work, and aside from that, the social strain was terrible and of course I had to think I was very necessary to each and every function (and wasn't a bit) and the last week in Aug I simply gave up and had to go to MD for I was sick, the next week found me entering in upon my school duties and I never felt so little like work in all my life so I am simply drifting now. You know I have always felt proud to call you "friend" but that pride has been supplanted by a 4 so Mrs Cliffords name was offered for the position of said sec'y along with some other Mrs Clifford list - so the staff remains as it was with the one exception - it was that tame that in 20 minutes it was all over with the resolution comittee did not bring in a thing of sufficient note to bring about any discussion and so ended the St Louis convention. Mrs Washington was criticized by the women of the convention and Mrs Thurman in particular. The women of the convention was to have held one session at the hall of Congress at the Worlds fair ground, the day before (after all preparations were made for there reception even to the finest band on the ground being detailed at the main entrance to escort the ladies in automobiles) Miss Haller and some ugly black negro were refused dinner in a very fine cafe - she reported this and Mrs "B.T." made a motion that the body refuse to go out there and so carried - Well of course the evening papers reported this and as Mrs Thurman said Mrs Washington after seeing it in print feared it would rest upon Mr "B.T" so in BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal. WARREN LOGAN, Treasurer. TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE. (INCORPORATED.) FOR THE TRAINING OF COLORED YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN. COMMITTEE ON INVESTMENT OF ENDOWMENT FUND: MR. WM. H. BALDWIN, JR., President Long Island Railroad, 128 Broadway, New York City. MR. J. G. PHELPS STOKES, 47 Cedar St., New York City. MR. GEORGE FOSTER PEABODY, 27 Pine St., New York City. MR. ROBERT C. OGDEN, 784 Broadway, New York City. 2 Tuskegee, Ala,. Joy akin to jubilation since "our girlie" went abroad and was [?] not only for her race but for a nation, for the vainity of a nation has been aroused by your eloquent flow of german and french oratory. We applaude you most generously, my card of "Welcome" sent by you has been passed all the way down the line and each person felt proud to have known you. Now to the convention - Mrs Vashin was here less than an hour ago and I asked her - [was] summing up the whole affair what was her verdict? The reply was - "Tame, tame in the extreme", and so it was. I had never attended one that was so flat as you know Mrs Yates has no magnetism, and is very yielding in the hands of a competent moulder, her presence is prim, speech halting, her welcome 5 the morning issue she came out in a denial saying that ladies of the convention took the joint stand and the blame should not be placed upon her as she did not do it. So the women were we?? and so expressed themselves other than that I heard nothing more, One new thing the 1st Vice President is also "delegate at large" that is Mrs. Washington. She will attend all writings where the N.A.C.W. are to be represented. Your greeting was most kindly received and I suppose you received the cablegram that was sent to you as a spontaneous request from the body. The first night that the club women assembled at the " citizens reception" I handed to each one your card and all were very appreciative of your thoughtfulness and it was a beautiful sentiment coming from you. Now Mollie don't kill me, the first letter you sent to me to read before the convention I did so and when returning in the car with Mr and Mrs David Gordon the wind was about to take my hat away and to hold it I laid the letter( which I was bringing home to keep as you requested) with [Sept 1904] Dresden - A., Datum des Poststempels. Wintergartenstrasse 3. [*1904*] Sehr geehrte Frau, Wie Jhnen bereits bekannt sein durfte, hat der Vorstand des Bundes deutscher Frauenvereine als Organisationskomitee des Jnternationalen Frauenkongresses in Berlin, den allgemeinen Wunschen Rechnung tragend und entgegen seinem diesbezuglichen fruheren Beschluss, nun doch die Herausgabe eines Kongresswerkes in Aussicht genommen. Es sollen darin jedoch nicht die vollstandigen Verhandlungen sondern nur ausgewahlte Referate der vier Sektionen under der allgemeinen Versammlungen zum Abdruck kommen. Mit der Auswahl des Materials wurden die Sektionsvorsitzenden, mit der Redaktion die unterzeichnete Bundesvorsitzende betraut. Das Werk wird voraussichtlich im Herbst, im Verlag von C. H a b e l, Berlin, erscheinen und einen starken Band von ungefahr 600 Seiten umfassen. Der Preis fur das ungebundene Exemplar ist auf 5 Mk., fur Mitglieder von Bundesvereinen und Kongresstheilnehmer auf 4 Mk. (Subskriptionspreis) festgesetzt. Da unter den ausgewahlten Referaten auch das von Jhnen am 13. 6. uber das Thema, Sie [??????] der [?????} gehaltene sich befindet, so erlaube ich mir, Sie a) um die schriftliche Erlaubniss zum Abrduck, b) um gefallige Uebersendung des Manuskriptes Jhres Referates (ev. wenn Sie frei gesprochen haben, um eine Niederschrift Jhrer Ausfuhrungen) an meine obige Adresse zu bitten. Um jedes Missverstandniss zu vermeiden, erlaube ich mir noch zu bemerken, dass: 1. die Referate nicht in Uebersetzung sondern in der Sprache, in der sie gehalten wurden, zum Abrduck gebracht werden; 2. dass wir uns das Recht, sie nach Bedarf zu kurzen, vorbehalten; und 3. dass wir dem bei derartigen Kongresswerken allgemeinen Usus gemass von einer Honorirung der Arbeiten absehen. Weitere Mittheilungen sowie eine Subskriptionsliste werden Jhnen spater zugehen. Der gefalligen, moglichst umgehenden Zusendung Jhres Manuskriptes entgegensehend Mit hochachtungsvollem Gruss Marie S t r i t t Vorsitzende des Bundes deutscher Frauenvereine. x Frauen in den [Vereiniglen?] Staaten Mit [he??lihe?] [Grussen?] M.S. Subdistrict Court No. 8. Robert H Terrell, Presiding 1904 For the Ambassador from the United States to Germany. Dear Sir: On the 13th of June I shall deliver a short address on the Progress of Colored Women at the Philharmonie, where the International Congress of Women will meet until the 18th of June. The State Department has given me a letter to the Ambassadors and Ministers representing the United States in foreign countries. I should be very glad to have a short interview with you, if you will kindly appoint the hour, when it will be most convenient for you to receive me. My husband, Robert Heberton Terrell, graduated from Harvard in 1884. As you are one of fair Harvard's sons, I thought this fact might interest you. From the enclosed circular you will see what I am attempting to do and what some well known people and papers think of my efforts. In the June number of the North American Review I have an article, which is an answer to one contributed by Thomas Nelson Page in the January number. will be thankfully rec'd. Hoping you will find the time to grant them this favor Sincerely yours (Miss) Lavinia Carter St. Louis, Sept 27 - 04 2660 Morgan St. My dear Mrs. Terrell. - I write you in interest of the "Christian Men's Social Club" of this City, which meets the 2nd Sunday "aft" of each month. I met the Club, upon invitation to contribute to the program at their last meeting, and read to them your article upon lynching in the June No. of the North American Review. The members were deeply impressed, and were made to see and feel more keenly the condition of the masses of our race in the South than many had even imagined. At the close of the meeting it was voted that each member buy a copy of the Review and asked that I write you expressing [you] their thanks and appreciation for publishing broadcast this awful crime of lynching. I feel that just a line from you would encourage the members more than I can tell you in writing. The club is composed of gentlemen. The object [being] being to promote a deeper spiritual life - and to discuss, and do those things which will be beneficial to the race. If you will address their Secretary Mr. Robert Smith 3027 Fair Av. St. Louis. The same will be read at their next meeting the second Sunday in Oct. which I assure you 1007 Lady St, Columbia, S.C. 10-13-04 Dear Mrs. Terrell-, Being in the city, private nursing also acting as secretary for Dr. when at leisure, I am glad of the opportunity of addressing you, our worthy patron, One that we can justly boast of. Also a few words concerning Dr. Evans wonderful works. I have had the pleasure of nursing for her as well, as the rest of the doctors of the city. I find that she has the reputation of being 2 equal to any the city affords. There she has a big practice among the best white and colored populations of Col. She's the first to establish a training school for colored girls, and she has more calls than she can fill. That is why I am here. She is an ideal physician and had I the means, the opportunity, I would emulate her for she is worthy. Now Mrs. Terrell I am am member of the class of 1903,- Freedman's Hospital, and tho' I haven't seen you to know it, I think Mr. Terrell has spoken in my presence, or at least I had the pleasure of hearing him. Pray that I may be of service to our race. Should an opportunity present itself for a nurse I beg your aid. Accept these few words from yours humbly, Nellie V. Johnson Albert S. White Lawyer and Notary Public President Central Law School Home Phone 5517 2704 W. Walnut St. Louisville, Ky, Oct. 16th 1904 My dear Mrs Terrell: Your very kind favor reached me Saturday and I appreciate the high compliment involved in the same. In accordance with your request I enclose a number of clippings personal to myself and also a brief statement in the same connection prepared by my husband, and if you conclude to use them you shall greatly oblige me by doing me the favor of giving the name of the magazine and the date on which your article will appear in order that I may be able to get it. My husband has a very large general practice a considerable portion of which consists of office work. Several years ago he was appointed U.S. Revenue Agent, a position which frequently takes him out of the city withdrawing him to some extent from his practice. My object in reading law was to assist him in holding his business and become generally useful as I believe that our women have a part to play in the crying demands and enlarged opportunities of the hour. I thank you for the programme you sent. I read an account in the Colored American of the splendid reception given you upon your return also read the associated press accounts of the conspicuous part you took in the great gathering of noted Women at Berlin. We cannot as a race be otherwise than proud of you and what you have achieved for us. For a number of years I have been reading of you and have always greatly admired what you have been doing to win for our race a high place in the public esteem. At the time you delivered your annual address to the Federation of Women's Clubs at Chicago was Vice President of the Women's Improvement Club of this city which sent representatives to that meeting and being much interested I read very carefully the accounts of the same and was highly gratified by the praise bestowed upon your eloquent effort. You have many admirers in this section of the country who keep in touch with your movements and are proud of every effort you make for a better race and nobler womanhood. Thank you for your kindness. I have the honor to remain yours for the race. Sallie J. S. White 2704 W. Walnut St Louisville KY Mrs Mary Church Terrell Washington, D.C. The Best Advertiser to Colored Trade. 5 cents per copy 50 " per year. $2.00 for five years. Colored Authors are requested to send in contributions of all kinds of interest to the average Afro-American. Contributions will be returned if not used. The Afro-American Magazine 97 Cleveland Ave A Monthly Repository of the Best Products of Negro Brain and Skill Chicago Nov. 5th, 1904 Mrs Mary Church Terrill, Dear Madam:- Your favor of 28th is at hand. We wanted something concerning the growth & progress of Woman's Clubs in the East. Mrs. Fannie Hall Clint will undertake this work in the Central States and Mrs. Josephine Salome Yates in the West Central States, Mrs. Elizabeth Fisher in the extreme West, [and] Mrs. Booker T. Washington (or some other author) in the South, and Mrs. Georgia DeB. Faulkner of Africa. We did not expect to pay anything for this class of articles as they are more valuable to you & to the work than they are to us. No one has asked yet for any reimbursement for this work. We pay 1 cent per line for stories accepted & suitable for our magazine. We will be glad to receive contributions from you along this line if preferred. Very truly yours, S. C. White Charleston Free Kindergarten Association, Colored, Organized 1902 PRESIDENT - MRS. C. E. SMALLS. 8 Marion St., Charleston, S. C. 1st VICE-PRESIDENT - MRS. A. McLAUGHLIN, 5 Islington Ct., Charleston, S. C. 2nd VICE-PRESIDENT - MRS. L. M. MELTON, 113 Coming St., Charleston, S. C. RECORDING SECRETARY - MRS. J. E. WILSON, 44 Aiken St., Charleston, S. C. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY - MISS PAULINE MILLER, 22 Cooper St., Charleston, S. C. TREASURER - MRS. MARY GREEN, 24 C St., Charleston, S. C. Charleston, S.C. December 5, 1904 Mrs. M. C. Terrell, 326 T. St. N.W. Washington, D.C. Dear Madam:– Sometime ago I wrote you a letter telling about our organization and its work and begged some assistance from your society. The ladies connected with our association are putting forth every effort in carrying out the true aim which is to rescue the poor and neglected children between the ages of three and seven from the pernicious influence of the streets by throwing a mantel of protection (the kindergarten) around them in their tender years; to train them in the way they should go. Thus the foundation for useful citizenship and noble manhood and womanhood will be laid. The Association has two kindergartens under its management. One is Charleston Free Kindergarten Association, Colored Organized 1902 Charleston, S.C. located in the central part of the city and reaches a large percent of children. The other is in the "Borough", a tough and much needed locality. Most of our people here though the work remains new to a good many, are doing what they can to help in the work. Last summer the Consolidated Railway Co. gave the children and some of their parents and friends a most enjoyable outing at a cost of $25.00 to the company. Dr. A. C. McClennan, surgeon in chief of the "Colored Hospital and Training School for Nurses", very kindly let us have the use of his piano. Rev. D. J. Jenkins president of the Colored Orphanage has helped financially and through the editorials of his paper "The Charleston Messenger". "The Southern Reporter" of which Rev I. E. Lowry is pastor, speaks in highest terms about our work. "The News & Courier" our daily paper, was not less kind in its praise Charleston Free Kindergarten Association, Colored Organized 1902 Charleston, S.C. It is hoped that the City Fathers will help another year. Your kindly lending a helping hand in our efforts to establish and maintain free kindergartens in Charleston will be highly appreciated by the organization and at the same time you will be greatly lessening the need for reformatory schools and penitentiaries. Hoping that your honorable board will lend a willing ear to our plea in behalf of the work of the free kindergarten and will give such assistance as it can. I am, Very truly yours, Pauline Miller, Cor. Sec'y the kindnesses from friends & the many happy hours he has had in your great country. How much I should have liked to have seen the modest little composer surrounded by his crowd of admirers! Do you know he wants to take me away for a quiet week directly he gets here? It will be so delightful & I have written to the landlady of the house where 10 Upper Grove S. Norwood S. C. Dec: 13th 1904. My dearest friend - So very many thanks for your sweet letter and the copy of the magazine. What a beautiful article you have written about my dear dear Husband! I am too shy to show it - as I long to do - to my friends, because of the flattering things you say about poor little me! Sometimes I long to sing in public again! and in my head is a mad scheme to pay a visit to your country and sing at recitals songs of my husband, accompanied by the composer! He would say "Why, you must be mad!" "America is not England; and demands the best in music!! I am happy now - writing to you, but all day long my maid and I have been at logger-heads, which you will admit is far from pleasant. I can hardly realise that my dear Coleridge sails for home _ and me _ to-day! It has seemed years since he left and I have missed him every hour of the day. But still of course I have been philosophical, and have thrilled with joy at the accounts I have read of his successes and I am sure I was as excited and elated over the results of the election as were many Washingtonians. Therefore I sent the President a card of congratulations, which he must have received about the time that my husband interviewed him - and to my surprise and amazement I received a "return thanks" card - that and the envelope with "White House" in the corner I am having framed of course! If Mr. Coleridge-Taylor does as I wished, I ought to receive a message from him before he sails from Boston. What a pity that the Committee did not engage a good tenor and soprano for "Hiawatha"! The composer seems charmed with the chorus, and has made me long to hear them. I shall look forward to having some more of your beautiful letters _ I wish I could write as fluently! Good night now, with renewed thanks for the magazine, your sweet letter, and love and all good wishes in the New Year to you your husband and "Girlie" I am your sincere friend Jessie H. Coleridge-Taylor. of the whole picture. I sent them all back to be toned down, hence the delay in sending them to you. You ought to have had them at Xmastime. I wonder if you have sent me the copy of the Evening Sun for which I asked! Do you know that I am the proud possessor of a card from your President _ I had almost said [underline] the [end underline] president_ sometimes I feel just as if I were amongst you all. we spent our honey moon in anticipation of this proposed little holiday. Of course my husband does not know this, and I shall not definitely arrange anything until his return. Did I tell you what a surprise I am getting ready for him? I have arranged a most interesting musical welcome, of about 36 of his closest professional friends, and they are to "discourse sweet sounds" from 3.30 p.m. about 6 p.m. on December 23 -the day after his arrival- The Programmes are to be typed at the back of one of his Picture Post Cards & if I can, I want Coleridge to sign each one. Mr. Downing a West African, will make a speech & I anticipate a happy re-union. Let us hope the Boat will be punctual & the dear man free from sea-sickness! I think I am allowing him ample time to get here from 13th - 23rd. If he is late, I shall collapse, after making so many preparations. By this mail, I am forwarding you the promised photographs. As you will see, they have been enlarged from the tiny one which my husband used to carry about (at least he was supposed to do so!) & that accounts for the roughness & blurred effect. heart [?} but kind being questioned when [?] Our Railway Station is Norwood Junction from Victoria or London Bridge in No London Brighton South Court Railway - or you can come to Selhurst & take a train to the very road. With kind regards Very [s??????y] S. [????????] 1904 10 [?][?] S. [?] J[?][?][?] [?][?][?] family will be delighted to see your [?][?][?] [?] Tuesday would be an Excellent day for me, [?] I am free any time between three & seven. If this should not do, Friday would do just as well, and I am conducting the [?] time Concert in the evening - if you [?] nothing like you please come later about five say & [?] on into as to [?] [?] Concert Please let us know which day you will come. I had already sent tickets around you & Judge Terrell - for any be [?] I [?] [?] interest - in the "Colour Question of the United States. I suppose you know I am going to Washington in November, so that you Please return this letter to Mary C. Terrell Electric Light, Steam Heat, Free Bus Hotel Rich C.A. Webber, Mgr Middleport, NY, Jan 12, 1905 Mrs Mary Church Terrell Spencerport NY Der Mrs Terrell Your letter reached me at 8 p.m. I have just called Mr Groves, the P.M. and he says that your telegram was received but no mail has come for you. If a letter comes later he will send it to Spencerport tomorrow at 2:23 pm. The editor did not mention your lecture in his little daily paper. He was not present. Many very pleasant things are being said about you and we are glad that we had you in the course. Of course people were affected differently, but there have been no criticisms of an adverse character. Some would have been better pleased if you had merely entertained them. Of course you could not make a business of that when the burden of the colored race is so heavy on your heart. It should lie as heavily on our hearts. I have been thinking all about your lecture, substance matter, address, and all. I like it no less upon reflection. It was a splendid effort full of refined womanly feeling. That is enough to say isn't it? God bless you and God speed you in your humanitarian zeal. Sincerely yours, F.F. Buckner P.S. I am not entitled to the "Dr." 418 Jacobs St. Charleston, W. Va. July 6, 1905 Mr dear Mrs. Terrell, We sent you the pin this week, a very simple affair, but hope that you will wear it sometimes in memory of the West Virginia State Federation. You will notice that it is a watch clasp, still it may be used other wise. Your letter, which was read before two of the Clubs, was very much enjoyed. We hope that you will write us again soon. Have noted with pleasure that you have addressed a number of clubs and similar organizations since you were here; would be so pleased to have you write us about such trips, if it is not asking too much. In meeting different persons every now and then I am more impressed with the fact that you have made some very strong friends here. Very truly, Mattie V. Lee International Council of Women Organized 1888 Motto - The Golden Rule: "Do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you." Office of the Chairman of the Committee on Peace and Arbitration. 633 North Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis, Ind. U. S. A. June 13, '05 Mrs. Lillian Thomas Fox, 625 W. North St. City. My dear Mrs. Fox, It gives me pleasure to hear that Mrs. Mary Church Terrell is to speak [for your people] at one of your churches in this city. Mrs. Terrell is a woman of education and fine abilities. It has been my pleasure to hear her address such audiences as are convened by the National Council of our own country, both in Washington and in other cities where executive sessions have been held. Last summer she represented her people at the Third Quinquennial of the International Council at Berlin. Mrs. Terrell has a stately bearing and an impressive manner, and speaks with intelligence and eloquence. I am sure her visit to the city will be an occasion of great interest [to the people of her race.] Hoping that you will secure for her a large audience worthy of the address which she will bring you. I am, with kindest regards, Very sincerely yours, May Wright Sewall Dictated. Hon. President of International Council of Women. A/S International Council of Women June 22nd. Dictated E.H. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell c/o Mr. Allen Simms 1314 Capitol Ave. N. My dear Mrs. Terrell: - I have been notified by Mrs. Fox of your address while in the city, and I write a note to express my interest in your having an engagement here, and my regret that my own engagements make it impossible for me to invite you to call on me while you are in Indianapolis, which I should be glad to do were you going to stay over Friday. I have engagements of importance and of long standing that take up the whole afternoon and a part of the evening, and your engagement for the evening will of course, make that out of the question for your call. Should your plans change, and should you stay in town tomorrow, I shall be very happy to see you if you can call on me any time between three and five o'clock. It gave me much pleasure to furnish a paragraph to Mrs. Fox for her little circular Greeting. Spoke at Exeter Hall and received an ovation. By special request at Hyde Park demonstration to 5000 and again at Arthur St. Church to one of the most enthusiastic audiences I have ever faced. My color is a help. The world is here to this meeting. Have made friends for life. N.H. Burroughs. Post Card, postmarked July 27, 1905, Washington, D.C. Myrtle Hall Harper's Ferry, W. Va. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell T Street N.W. Washington, D.C. U.S.A. 1706 Seventeenth Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. November 17, 1905 Mrs. M.C. Terrell, 326 T Street, N.W. City. My dear Mrs Terrell: Your card of November 14th. relating to the proposal to form an Oberlin Alumni Association has been received. I regret very much that an earlier engagement for Saturday evening will prevent me from attending the meeting which is to be held for the purpose of perfecting an organization. The idea is a good one and one which I have long hoped might be realized here where there are so many Oberlin alumni. I shall be very glad indeed to cooperate in such a movement and to render whatever services possible in furtherance of its success. Very cordially yours, J.L. Love Washington, D.C. November 17, 1905 Dear Mrs Terrell: My sister and I are in full sympathy with the movement to form an association of Oberlin graduates, but we are members of the Metropolitan choir and for years it has been their custom to rehearse on Saturday nights and for this reason we shall have to forego the pleasure of meeting the friends on Saturday night. Very truly yours, Chanie and EmmaPatterson Postal Card, postmarked Washington D.C. Nov 19 1905 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell 326 T St. N.W. Local Mileage Book 335917 Bought Dec. 20 1904 2004 17th St. Washington Nov. 19 1905 Mrs Terrill: Dear Madam - It was my purpose to attend the meeting of Oberlin Graduates at your house last evening but was prevented from so doing by circumstances which I could not control. I hope however you had a pleasant meeting. Yours truly, James Storeau Baltimore, Md. Dec. 3, 1905. Dear Mrs. Terrell, Your postal of Nov. 14th was received and owing to recent illness, I was not able to attend a meeting of the Oberlin Alumni. I think such an organization just the thing; I shall be glad to be numbered among you. Please count me in and let me know where the next meeting is to be held. Very sincerely, Lucy Messer Davis 1917 - Druid Hill Ave. Dec 5 - 1905 This letter was written by Charles H.Williams, Fennimore [Baraboo], Wisconsin, a white man intensely interested in colored people. He sympathized with them and denounced those who oppressed them The Rev. Thomas E Barr of Milwaukee said in an address to his people, as reported , Dec. 10 "last." President Roosevelt grasps the heart of the nation. Why? Because the people are persuaded that he is honestly and resolutely determined to give every body a square deal, to see to it that, rich and poor alike obey the law and are protected by the law." He grips the heart of the nation because of the evident interest of a manly and honest interest to deal justly in all matters coming within his province as the President of the nation, of all the people. But as this is a people nation and the people are the governing and ruling power, through their representatives. There are some things of, grave importance, which their Representatives, the President included, do not do, unless called for demanded by the people. One of those important things, duties, is interfering by the National Government with the actions of 2 States, known as states rights, which formerly existed, but in relation to some matters of great importance of general public interest and welfare of [to] very many citizens, it was buried and covered so deep up, never to be resurrected. Notwithstanding, President Roosevelt dined with Booker T. Washington, a negro man, as his invited guest, at the White House, a very proper and creditable act and has appointed a number of Negro citizens to office in both North and South, he makes in his recent message to Congress, no mention of the inhuman barbaric cruelties and injustice committed and permitted towards Negro citizens in all Southern States of this great civilized and Christian nation. Why? Simply because it is probable, the people do not call for, demand of the National Government to interfere and put a stop to such inhuman, uncivilized acts so discreditable to a people professing to be the most civilized of all other people. Why do this people, the governing power of the nation, claiming to be civilized and Christian, permit, quietly acquiesce in a degree of barbaric cruelty and injustice towards a people, now citizens of the nation, who with their ancestors were oppressed two and a half 3 centuries by white citizens of this nation, more cruelly and unjustly than ever before committed in the past ages of the world, as known to the scholars and investigators of its history and, now during forty years, even more severely wronged than in the past? Simply because of an education of a most serious and cruel prejudice towards the decendants of a people stolen from their native land Africa, brought into this nation by force and enslaved, in the most cruel slavery known to man. Which prejudice was quite fully shown in the year 1832 [where] when, the church organizations of Boston would not permit William Lloyd Garrison, and his associates to hold an anti-slavery meeting in any church, school house or other building controlled by them. About the same time the entire power and influence of the state and churches of the State of Connecticut, with the half of the mob were actively engaged to prevent Prudence Crandall, a Quaker women, from teaching school for Negro girls. Has it not been a duty, in all the late years of the nation, of the church organizations, their members individually and their ministers, especially the latter, to teach and 4 put in practice the teaching of Jesus that, All men are brothers - Do unto others as you would they should do unto you - applying them particularly to the long oppressed and cruelly wronged people having Negro blood in their veins. Doing so in an out spoken public way, to remove that cruel prejudice; to openly protest against and condemn the barbaric savagery and injustice, now in practice in the Southern States, toward our Negro brothers and sisters, and, finally induce the people to call on, to demand of the National government the prevention of all such inhuman acts and injustices towards that people, created by the All Wise Father with black skin for purposes of his own? Has not the time come, more especially for the Rev.Thomas E. Barr and other ministers of liberal faith, who teach righteousness, right living and doing, here in this world, doing as Jesus and the other great Prophets of the world before and since his time taught and did, as the Christian duty; had spoken out boldly in their churches and otherwise, in efforts to educate their people and others, to condemn and remove that cruel prejudice towards people having Negro blood in their veins, many of them now citizens of the nation and, of 5 and of rights should be, entitled to all the rights and privileges thereto belonging and [had] called upon the National Government demanding that the barbaric cruelties and injustices in practice towards them should be prevented and, those committing such great wrongs be punished as provided by law. Fennimore Wis Dec 25 1905 Chas. H. Williams of Baraboo Wis A Few Remarks. Relating to the condition of people generally of this world, indicating quite a general failure to progress towards and to the best of lives here in the world on which they live. The slow progress of the people of this world, to that position of character, evidently designed to be possessed by all, respecting the rights of all; doing unto others as we would be done unto and living righteous and upright lives. The elevation of the people of this world to the best of lives here, in other words, the establishment of True Morality as the basis of character in each and all the people. It is very probably, this was the intention and desire of all All Wise Father, that people in their progress from the uncivilized, the lower stages of life, would become as near perfect in character, here in this world, as could be attained too, with their many weaknesses. The Hereafter about which, they were entirely without knowledge, to be provided for by the Creator, who, knew all there was to know about it. Present conditions of people came to them and to those of past ages, by the failure of those actively interested in the well being of people, to fully understand and appreciate the teachings of Jesus and the other great Prophets of this world, before and since his time. Many of those so interested, have been, during the long past, since the time of Jesus, laboring seriously and faithfully in efforts to save the souls of people in the Hereafter, about which they had no knowledge, and during the same time devoting, in a judicious and helpful way, very little time to that true character building so evidently designed by the creating Heavenly Father. Character building which can only be accomplished through several generations and continued true moral education as previously stated. Baraboo Wis Dec 21/07 Chas. H Williams (White) Lexington Dec. 17, 1905 My dear Mrs. Terrell: I have been shamefully remiss in having waited so long before replying to your very kind & interesting letter from Nov. 6 & owe you every apology for my delay. I hoped that I might see you when you were in Boston, a week ago, but I was unable to attend either of the meetings at which you spoke, & only yesterday did I learn from the N.Y. Age that you were present at the meeting in Joy St. Church at which I spoke last Sunday. I judge that you had to leave before it was over, to meet another appointment. The various meetings & other observances from my father's centenary were remarkably successful & interesting & we appreciate very heartily the efforts of all who labored so earnestly to make them worthy of the event. In response to your request, I take pleasure in sending you another portrait of my father, though I have none with the autographs that I can spare. Neither have I available photographs of myself & Mrs. Garrison & our boy, as it is long since we visited a professional photographer, or a photograph of my library with its relics. It would require three or four views to bring them all in, & the room is so small as to make focussing difficult. I have no objection whatsoever to your writing a description of your visit to us, if you place the emphasis on the house and it's contents rather than on the inmates! I read with much interest of what you wrote of your Western visit & Purity work, & I am gratified to note that your husband has just been reappointed judge by President Roosevelt. Please offer him my congratulations & also my appreciation of his recent tribute to my dear father& believe me. Very sincerely yours, Francis J. Garrison Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.