SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA JUSTICE'S CHAMBERS January 14, 1911. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, 326 T St., N.W., Washington, D.C. Dear Mrs. Terrell: In reply to your letter of the 12th inst. I was amply rewarded for the time and effort of going to the M Street School the other afternoon and as I tried to tell you I was deeply interested in your presentation of the subject. I think it has a quality that will secure attention wherever it is given and that it will do a great deal of good. I would not suggest any cooling of the warmth of your tribute to Mrs. Stowe because I think it is all justified and I think more good is done by appreciation than by criticism when dealing with such a character. What we need is to catch the glow of her own great spirit. The only suggestion of change that I could make would be that you might perhaps show Mrs. Stowe's book to be a part of the great anti-slavery agitation. It was at once the product of the agitation and in some respects its most powerful stimulus. If you treat it in this way your tribute to Mrs. Stowe will be less likely to appear unjust to the other workers for the same cause, at the same time you will not leave it doubtful that her effort was unique. (M. C. T. - 2.) In fact she not only touched many who could not be touched by the appeals that had been made by other abolitionists but she reached great masses of people who could never have been reached at all by the others. Boys and girls read her story and a few years later appeared as the soldiers and nurses who gave themselves in the great conflict. Uncle Tom was dramatized and won upon the state the applause of those who never would have listened to any anti-slavery address. The part the book played in the movement for emancipation is an interesting historical study. I do not feel competent to deal with it and my suggestion may be of no practical value. The address just as it stands commands my sincere admiration. If you can improve it in any respect I shall rejoice with you. Very cordially yours, Wendell Phillips Stafford THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ART AND SCIENCES FOUNDED 1824 RE-INCORPORATED 1890 OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES A. AUGUSTUS HEALY PRESIDENT HON. CHARLES A. SCHIEREN FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT CARLL H. DESILVER SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT ROBERT B. WOODWARD THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT GATES D. FAHNESTOCK TREASURER GEORGE C. BRACKETT SECRETARY OFFICERS OF THE COUNCIL REV. J. M. FARRAR, D.D. PRESIDENT J. HERBERT LOW, M.A. SECRETARY DIRECTOR PROF. FRANKLIN W. HOOPER, M.A. OFFICE: THE BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, LAFAYETTE AVENUE BETWEEN FULTON ST. AND FLATBUSH AVE. Brooklyn, January 23rd, 1911. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, 326 Tea Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Dear Madame: I thank you for your letter of January 21st with circular enclosed. In case you have other subjects on which you will lecture than "Uncle Tom's Cabin," I will be very greatly obliged if you will kindly send the titles of the lectures to me to be laid before our Lecture Committee the coming spring. Very sincerely yours, Franklin W. Hooper W. Calvary Baptist Church Robert Stuart MacArthur, Minister. 57th Street, bet. 6th and 7th Aves., New York City. Jan. 23, 1911. My dear Mrs. Terrell: I am glad to receive your letter and circular. I remember you with the utmost distinctness. I recall our conversations on the piazza of the hotel, and I recall also your eloquent words spoken on the platform at Winona. Yes, I think I might open the way for a lecture by you in the chapel of Calvary Church. Our chapel seats a large audience. I do not think, however, we could make room for the lecture until after Easter Sunday. Easter comes this year on April 16th. What is the honorarium which you would expect? Are there any other facts which you could give me as to details? Would you prefer that we pay you a certain fixed sum, sell tickets, and realize all we could on the lecture, or would you rather give it without charge, and we take a silver offering? Any suggestions you may make I shall heartily appreciate. Truly yours, R.S. MacArthur. [*]Copy[*] Washington, D.C., Jan. 25th 1911. To the Board of Education of the District of Columbia: The report has come to us that Major Arthur Brooks, the military instructor in the colored high schools of this city, has tendered to your honorable body his resignation as such teacher. Many of us are parents of pupils in these institutions, and all of us are deeply interested in the welfare of the public schools of Washington. We believe that we voice the sentiment of the colored people of this community when we say that no teacher has done more to bring the colored schools before the public in a commendable way than has Major Brooks. As a disciplinarian his influence upon our boys for good cannot be too highly praised. During the twenty years in which he has been their drill master he has devoted himself to their interests and training in a manner that defies all criticism. No duty has ever been assigned to him by his superior officers in the schools that he has not willingly, cheerfully and most effectively performed. It has been largely due to the kind of training that he has given our boys and the personal example he has set them by the spirit with which he performs his duties that so many of them have been molded into self reliant young men. We take the greatest pride in our school battalion which he develops year after year to such a high point of efficiency. Some of the most capable colored officers who served their country during the Spanish--American war were young men who received all of their military training in our high school under the supervision and instruction of Major Brooks. In addition to all of this Major Brooks occupies a unique place in our community as Commander of the First Separate Battalion in the District National Guards, an organization of which we are justly proud because of their splendid record at home in the camp. Taking all of these things into consideration, we shall regard it as a tremendous loss to our schools if Major Brooks should sever his connection with them. We, therefore, pray that your honorable body will not accept his resignation, as it is the purpose of ourselves and other citizens to induce Major Brooks, if possible, to reconsider the action which he has taken. Respectfully, Robert H. Terrell, Judge of the Municipal Court, Ralph W. Tyler, Auditor for the Navy Department, A.C. Garner, Pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church, W.A. Warfield, M.D., Surgeon in Chief, Freedmen's Hospital, Lewis E. Johnson, Sec'y Y.M.C.A. Colored Men's Branch, E.J. Morton, Chairman, " " " " " " " Jno. R. Francis, M.D. W.T. Vernon, Register of the Treasury, Jno. C. Dancy, Former Recorder of Deeds, Jas. A. Cobb, Ass't U.S. Attorney, E.D. Williston, M.D., 1507--S. Street, N.W. Wm. H. Harris, 1633--L. St. N.W. W. Calvin Chase, Editor, The Bee, Thomas L. Jones, Attorney-at-Law, Henry Lincoln Johnson, Recorder of Deeds, Whitfield McKinlay, Collector of Customs, Wash. D.C. Wyatt Archer, 1714--P. St. N.W. Thos. J. Calloway, General Manager Lincoln Memorial Building Co., W.A. Pinchback, Secretary Andrew F. Hilyer, Treasurer S. Coleridge Taylor Choral Society C.S. Cuney, Office Auditor for P.O. Department, Wm. S. Hawkins, Attorney-at-Law, George H. DeReef, Ass't Clerk Municipal Court W.R. Griffin, Chief of The True Reformers, Armond W. Scott, Attorney-at-Law, A.M. Curtis, M.D., 1939--13th St., N.W. W.L. Houston, Past Grand Master G.U.O. of O.F. in America, Jno. N. Goines, Printer, 1344--You St. N.W. Henry P. Slaughter, Editor Odd Fellow's Journal, P.W. Price, M.D., 1128--G. St. N.E., W.H. Conn, Deputy U.S. Marshal, Judson W. Lyons, Ex-Register U.S. Treasury, H.A. Davis, 1821--8th St. N.W. James F. Bundy, Sec'y & Treas. Howard University Law School, Chas. I. West, M.D., Associate Professor of Anatomy Howard Univ. Thos. H.R. Clarke, 1st Lieut, 8th U.S.V.I. W. Sidney Pittmann, Architect, A.S. Gray, Druggiet, 1200--You St. N.W. C.W. Childs, M.D. J.R. Wilder, M.D. C.A. Fleetwood, War Department. Paris, Texas Feb 1st, 1911 Dear Mrs. Terrell: Your card rec'd several days ago, mentioning another party to go abroad. I have written so many of my friends to that effect I find it a hard matter to get them in the notion. In my next letter I hope to send you two names I want to believe they are going before I put you to the trouble of writing them. I am waiting their final answer now. When do you think of coming this 2 far south on another lecture tour? We are always glad to have you. When you are ready to come just let us know. Mr. Guest is quite well and joins me in sending regards to you and yours. Of course you understand that if you are successful with the party I am a member. Trusting you are well and having success in arranging the party. Yours with respect, Adlanta L. Guest, 520 N. 22nd St, 735 Exchange Building Boston 2nd February 1911 Mrs. Mary C. Terrell 326 T Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. My dear Mrs. Terrell: I have your letter of the 30th of January, and I shall be very glad to help you in the matter that you speak of. I am not particularly in touch with the authorities of Wellesley College, and it may take me some little time to find out how I may best accomplish it, but I will do it as soon as I can and let you know. It seems to me there should be no difficulty in doing it. Yours truly, M. Storey 800 Sixteenth Street Feb 6th 1911 My dear Mrs. Ferrell Enclosed please find check for $10.00 which is my contribution to the Prudence Crandall Association which certainly is doing a good work in furnishing those necessaries to children who cannot afford them and it would be a pity to have to give it up-- Yours sincerely Clara S Hay The Church of the Pilgrims 100 Remsen Street Brooklyn, New York, Feb. 7, 1911 Ministers Edward F. Sanderson Leslie Willis Sprague Mrs, Mary Church Terrell 326 Tea Street, N.W., Washington D.C. My dear Mrs. Terrell:- I have your letter inquiring about an opportunity of speaking at the Church of the Pilgrim in Brooklyn. I should be very glad to have the work presented here, but we have just arranged for an address by Booker Washington, and also one from Fisk, so that it does not seem advisable at the present time to make place for another along the same general line. Very sincerely yours, Edward F. Sanderson EDWIN R.A. SELIGMAN 324 WEST 86TH STREET NEW YORK February 23, 1911 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, #326"T" Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. My dear Mrs. Terrell: I am very glad to be able to reply to your letter quite frankly. I found nothing to criticize in your address, and much to admire. I think your presentation was forceful and not extreme and I think it is always good to rub these things in to an audience that does not know much about them. The only thing I should be disposed to object to was that you did not quite carry out the title. You started out by saying that you were to speak on the bright side of things, and you devoted about nine-tenths of your discourse to the dark side. I think it would have been more effective if you had devoted about two-thirds of your discourse to the dark side and about one-third to the bright side summing up and combining at the end. I think you could have aroused your hearers to the same pitch of interest in this way and could have made quite as effective a plea at the end. In short, my point is that the proportions were not quite right, although the matter was quite effective. With high regard, Faithfully yours, Edwin R.A. Seligman ERAS/JAH [*P.S. I find that among the leading members of this society nothing but gratification was expressed at the masterly handling of a difficult subject*] Vienna Library Association. Dr. Paul Richmond, President. Mr. Charles L. Snyder, Vice-President. Mr. E.W. Pierce, Secretary. Mr. John C. Hunter, Treasurer. Trustees. Mr. Andrew T. Huntington. [Dr. A.G. Coumbe.] Mr. Ralph Lewis. Mr. E.S. Bethel. Mr. Vincent Smith. Committees. Book. Executive. Entertainment. Mr. Charles L. Snyder. Mr. Wm. B. Lewis. [Mrs. A. G. Coumbe.] Miss Susan Hunter. Mr. Bassett Lee. Mrs. Wm. B. Lewis. Miss Jean P. Moxon. Capt. H.L. Salsbury. Mrs. Geo. B. Chamberlin. Miss Mary Huntington. Mr. Arthur Lewis. Mrs. L.M. King. Mrs. E.S. Bethel. Mr. E.W. Pierce. Mrs. E.S. Deverick Vienna, Fairfax County, Va., Feby 27 1911 Mrs. R. H. Terrell, Wash., DC Dear Mrs. Terrell: Referring to our conversation of Friday I find that as high as 70 pupils have been crowded into one room for our teacher in the Colored school at Vienna, and that there is not a reference book of any kind in the school except the dictionary which I recently gave. Don't you think we could raise money enough among the colored people in Washington to put a good encyclopedia in the school as a beginning toward putting the school on a good foundation? If you think so I will personally call on every colored school teacher in the City, if you can furnish me the addresses, as a beginning. I am sure each would give a little and I will send you my check for $2.50 to start it if you will consent to act as custodian of the fund. Kindly write me Vienna Library Association. DR. PAUL RICHMOND, President. MR. CHARLES L. SNYDER, Vice-President. Mr. E. W. PIERCE, Secretary. MR. JOHN C. HUNTER, Treasurer. Trustees. MR. ANDREW T. HUNTINGTON. [DR. A. G. COGME.] MR. RALPH LEWIS MR. E. S. BETHEL. MR. VINCENT SMITH. COMMITTEES Book. Executive. Entertainment. MR. CHARLES L. SNYDER. MR. WM. B. LEWIS. [MRS. A. C. COVARKK.] MISS SUSAN HUNTER. MR. BASSETT LEE. MRS. WM. B. LEWIS. MISS JEAN P. MOXON. CAPT. H. L. SALSBURY. MRS. GEO. B. CHAMBERLIN. MISS MARY HUNTINGTON. MR. ARTHUR LEWIS. MRS. L. M. KING. MRS. E. S. BETHEL. MR. E W. PIERCE. MRS. E. S. DEVERICK. Vienna, Fairfax County, Va., 190 at the office here in Washington (General Land office) instead of at Vienna Sincerely Yours, E.W. Pierce Charles A. B. Pratt, Chairman Noah C. Rogers, Treasurer Twenty-third Street Branch Young Men's Christian Association of the City of New York Telephone, Chelsea 1984 215 West Twenty-third Street Religious Work Department Secretaries in Brazil A. F. Travis, Director Myron A. Clark, Rio Janeiro A. W. Yergin, Industrial Work John H. Warner, Pernambuco Feb. 28, 1911. (Library of Congress Stamp) I take genuine satisfaction in commending Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, of Washington, D. C., to any association that desires a strong presentation of the negro situation, as it exists to-day. Mrs. Terrell, who is a graduate of Oberlin, is a colored woman of most gracious bearing and charming tact, with all the characteristics of the successful platform speaker. She feels keenly the suffering of her race, and does not attempt to conceal the difficulties of the situation. Yet she does not give way to bitterness, nor does she indulge in sensational statements. Confining her to facts, she makes her appeal to Christian manhood for fair play, and none except the most prejudiced could deny the reasonableness and justice of her claims. A Ferdinand Travis Religious Work Director. were to speak there I would surely have been among your listeners. I am interested & should like to know whether you secured any engagements to lecture for the N.Y. City Board of Education. Did you? If at any time you will speak in this town please let 1911 Tel. Lenox 3850 1020 Fifth Avenue Dear Mrs. Terrell At the Sunrise Club Dinner last evening I heard from Mrs. Sterling that you made a most stirring address at the Ethical Culture Society on Sunday morning, I wish I had known you Me know where & when so I my, if possible, go to hear you & tell others to go too. With kindest regards & best wishes, I am, Sincerely yours, Eva Wyeth February 21st-(1911?) Board of Education of the District of Columbia Franklin School Washington, D.C. Alys. E. Bentley Director of Music March 3rd 1911 My Dear [?] Terrell I call you twice on the phone but could not reach you. I want to thank you for your help and interest for better things- Board of Education of the District of Columbia Franklin School Washington, D.C. Alys. E. Bentley Director of Music 2 And your splendid courage is always a fine inspiration. I heard such good things of your talk in New York and you may be sure I followed it up, with Board of Education of the District of Columbia Franklin School Washington, D.C. Alys. E. Bentley Director of Music 3 my praise of the work you are doing here. Thank you again. Sincerely, Alys. E. Bentley Bellevue Hotel, Boston, Mass. March 11, 1911. Dear Mr. Villard: Mrs. Loud would like to have Mrs. Terrell speak before their Calhoun Club about Wednesday before the Conference, for the purpose of interesting the Club members in the conference. They will pay $10. toward her travelling expenses; but have no money for a fee. Will you please ask her if she will do this? I wish you could be here at the Committee meeting next week. There are such a number of details to be arranged that the Committee don't dream of, and I feel decidedly chary of making any suggestions. Sincerely yours Frances Benscoer Oswald G. Villard, Esq. 20 Vesey Street New York OBERLIN COLLEGE HENRY CHURCHILL KING, PRESIDENT JAMES R. SEVERANCE, TREASURER GEORGE M. JONES, SECRETARY Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Washington, D.C. Dear Mrs. Terrell:- A few days ago a young lady who is studying in this institution called at my office and requested that there be sent to you a revised address list of all living colored graduates of Oberlin College, and asked me to give to her this list for your use and for the use of some Mrs. Stuart. As I understand it, the Mrs. Stuart who wished this is not a graduate of the college, and I was not sure that it was a proper request. I did not comply with the request, but judged that if you considered it a proper use, you could send this list to her. Yours very truly, George M. Jones Secretary. Oberlin, Ohio, April 13, 1911. M Colored Graduates Revised to date of April 11, 1911 Class 1856 Alexander - Louisa - L. Oberlin - Ohio. " Jones - John Cra??? - 131 Dodson st. - Greensboro - N.C. 1859 Jones - Elias T. - 155 S Main - Oberlin - Ohio 1860 Jones - Mrs. " ". - " " " " " " Oliver - Mrs Susan R. - Port Gibson - Miss. " Thompson - Charles H. - address unknown 1862 Muse - James H. - 444 I st. N.W - Washington - D.C. 1865 Howard - Mrs. Marion L. - 2224 6th st. N.W - Washingston D.C. " Norris - Francis J. - 286 W. Mitchell st. - Atlanta - Ga. " Capp??? - Mrs. Levi J. - 754 S. 12th St - Philadelphia - Pa. " Tucker - Thomas D-. Dead. 1866 Piles - James H. - 308 S. Limestone st - Springfield - Ohio. 1867 Patterson - Channie A. - 1532 - 15th st. - Washington D.C. 1868 Anderson - Mrs. Caroline S. - 1926 S College ave - Phila. Pa. 1870 Rice - Mrs. Adelaide G-. 345 Franklin ave - Brooklyn - N.Y. " Gloucester - Eloise H - 144 Remsen? st. - Brooklyn - N.Y. " Jones - Darah M. - 1003 H. st. - Sacramento - Cal. " Meriwether - Mrs. Mary R. - 1211 S. st. - Washington - D.C. " Sto??m - James - 2004 17th st. - Washington - D.C. 1871 Patterson - Emma E. - 1532 - 15th st. - Washington - D.C. 1873 Parker - Hale G: - 5711 Ingleside ave. - Chicago - Ill. 1874 Anderson - Matthew - 1926 S. College ave. - Phila - Pa. 1875 Jones. Anna H - 2444 Montgall ave.- Kansas City - Mo. " Scarborough - William S. - Wilberforce - Ohio. 1876 Jackson - Martha R - 21 Grove st. - Chattanooga - Tenn. " Conner Mrs Caroline - 1935 - 11th st. N.W. - Washington D.C. 1877 Cook - George F. T: - 1212 - 16th st N. W. Washington D.C. 1878 Watkins - Solomon G. - 435 Polk st. - Topeka - Kan Class 1891 Wilkinson - Robert D. - Orangeburg - S. C. - State College. " Wood - Mrs. Ida G. - 2509 N. 4th st. - Kansas City - Kan. 1892 Alexander - Fannie E. Helena - Ark. " Dunn - Dr. Maud L. - 179 Elm st. - Chicago - Ill. " Love - John L - 1706-17th st. N. W. - Washington. D.C. 1893 Bond - Mrs James. Berea - Ky. " Cross - Connie - 2409 Flora st. - Kansas City - Mo. " Hayson - Walter B. - Dead. " Martin - William L. - 155 Washington st. - Chicago - Ill. 1894 Bovieau - Charles H. - L. Box. 327 - Bridgeton - N. J. 1895 Bond - James - Berea - Ky. " Dawley - William H. - 1714 Park ave - Kansas City - Mo. " Senior - Daniel L - 2306 Webster ave - Pittsburgh - Pa. 1897 Hill - George W. - Dead. " Purnell - Daniel H. V. - 1125 Delaware st. - Anderson - Ind. " Shippen - Clara R. - 1316 V. st. N.W.-Washington D.C. 1899 De Berry - William N. - 275 Eastern ave - Springfield. Mass. 1900 Washington - William L - Lexington - Va. 1901 Hill - Mrs Jane C. - Manassas - Va. " Goin - E. F. - 363 Orchard St. - New Haven - Conn " Goin - Mrs. Viola W. " " " " " Langston - John M. - 2540 S. Jefferson ave - St. Louis - Mo. " Marsden - Ralph A - Tuskegee - Ala - Box 29 1902 Glenn - Ampleas H. - 401 U. st. N. W. - Washington. D.C. " Robinson - Merton P - 406 U st N. W. - Washington " " " Wilkinson - Garnet C. " " " " " " 1903 Edwards - Dara H. - 300 South road - Elizabeth City - N. C. " Langston - Carroll N. - 411 - 4th ave N. - Nashville - Tenn. 1902 Wickliffe - Mrs. G. W - 1602 N. Georgia ave. Los Angeles, Calif. Class 1903 Henderson - Hattie M. - 42 E. Lorain st - Oberlin - Ohio. " Peabody - Harlan W. - 32 N. Cedar - Oberlin - Ohio. " Riley - Augustus - 240 W. Newton st. Boston - Mass. 1904 Hale - Mrs. Leanne O. - 926 McGarry st. Los Angeles - Calif. " Dorsey - Mrs Grace D. - Chickasha - Okla. 1905 Cash - William L - 516 Anderson st. E. Savannah - Ga. " Smith - Virginia C. - 2729 Lucas ave. St. Louis - Mo. 1906 Fisher - Ruth A. - Loran - Ohio - P.O.Box 72 " Mallard - Franklin B. - 714 Manly st. - Raleigh - N.C. " Miller - Lucien I - 405 Columbia st - Helena - Ark. " Morrill - Samuel D. - address unknown " Robinson - Grace E. - Bluefield - W. Va - Bluefield Col. Inst. " Simmons - Harry J. - dead. " Wright - John C. - Tuskegee - Ala - Tuskegee Inst. 1907 Curry - Roberta M. - Tyler - Texas - Box 422 " Fisher - Lucien C. - Memphis - Tenn - 2nd Cong. Ch. " Johnson - George W. - 214 King st - Springfield - Mass. " Lawson - Josephine M.- " Morsell - Samuel R - 624 Duff st - Pittsburgh - Pa. " Stewart - Charles W. - 8 Institute st. - Jamestown. N.Y. 1908 Bolden - Bess A. - Tuskegee - Ala - Box 155 " Brodnax - Anna F. - Bennett College - Greensboro - N.C. " Brooks - Myrtle L. - 249 University ave - Knoxville - Tenn. " Cowan - James H. - 1532 - 15th st - Washington. D.C. " Steward - Gustavus A - Lawrenceville - Va. " Wolfe - Andrew J. - Gilbert station - Iowa. 1909 Ballard - John E. - 2250 - E- 46th st - Cleveland - Ohio. Sims - David H - Oberlin - Ohio - 34 Council Hall . Class 1909 Stewart - Della M.- 19 Vine st - Oberlin - Ohio. Young - Maud E.- Howard Univ. - Washington D.C. 1910 Gordon - John A. - 1808 M. St. N.W.-Washington D.C. Jones - Joseph H. N. - 617 W. 3rd St - Plainfield - N.J. Lane - Willard M - Shaw Univ. - Raleigh - N.C. Rainbow - John H. - 1101 Charles st - Wheeling - W. Va. Robinson - Howard N. - Lawrenceville - Va - Box 139. 800 SIXTEENTH STREET May 9th 1911 My dear Mrs Terrell It will give me great pleasure to allow my name to be used as one of the patronesses for the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe. As regards name of others - I presume you have already tho't of Miss Boardman- Mrs Archibald [H????n] Mrs Hobson 1720 N St and Mrs H K Porter 1601 I Street. I do not at this moment recall any others - please do not mention my name as having suggested them Yours truly Clara S Hay Washington D.C., May 16, 1911. Dear Mrs. Terrell: Replying to your letter of the 15th, I have to say that it will be impossible for me to attend the celebration to which you refer. At that time I will be far up in Canada on the St. Lawrence River, where I spend my summers. Of course, as you know, I sympathize with every movement intended to be in honor of Lincoln. Yours truly, John M. Harlan Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, 326 T Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 2 lack of confidence in my ability to say anything to command the attention of yr audience when following Mr Bucher. His line of talk will be so strong the audience will not have recovered by the time I am on my feet and my feeble effort HEADQUARTERS VETERAN RESERVE CORPS PACIFIC BUILDING WASHINGTON, - D.C. Monday 5/5/11 My Dear Mrs Terrell: On second tho't I use yr own pleasure and judgement abt. first or second person on yr. program. In asking to come first perhaps I am influenced by a stage fright or 3 will fall flat, particularly as it's a solemn occasion & no fun going. Fun relieves the tention & wakes the crowd up to a new line of talk. General Andrew S. Burt United States Army retired from active service. The [man?] Colonel(?) Soldier(?) who commanded for ten years that great regiment- the 25" U.S. Infty who says today if there is anything in his record [public or private] deserving of [?] public attention it is his out spoken advocacy of the negro's cause in this country persistantly 4 & consistantly from 1861 until now! A veteran of four wars A record from the Knapsack of a private in the ranks to the star of a General. or He has a record of a private soldier in 1861 to that of Brig. General in 1911. or He has a record from 6 are ?queenship. In other words please give me a good "send off"! Sincerely yours Andrew S. Burt 5 Private to General I enclose my military record out of wh- you may pick something that strikes you as better than that I have given. I have another purpose in sending it. Keep it on file and when I pass away I request you will see that my history is [ ] in S sh publish prints with wh-you 1520 Corcoran Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. November 17, Nineteen-eleven My dear Mrs. Terrell:- It is with a keen sense of regard that I write to you, informing you of the fact of my having read with interest, profit and pleasure your pamphlet on "Harriet Beecher Stowe". I have a peculiar pride in this instance in that I am its first reader. I received the bulletin of the Public Library and saw the work listed- therein, it having been transferred from the Library of Congress. Your book has a message, not for us alone, but for those who shall pass through this vale of tears in future years. I have recommended its careful perusal to my friends, and I wish it were possible to have so able a work adopted for the circulating library of our schools. In offering my sincerest congratulations to you on this your great effort, I commend you to the care and keeping of Him who "maketh the wilderness to blossom as the rose", and to ask and pray that you may live long to do good to a people whose one object is to rise, lifting upward as they rise. "Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquaint- ance is that of good books," and we need must get acquainted with the best there is of friends and books. Again praising your work and praying that occasions may arise when you shall again gave to us such stirring truths, I am, with every expression of good will, Very cordially yours, Daniel W. Chase Houghton Mifflin Company 4 Park Street - Boston Dec. 8, 1911. My dear Miss Pendleton: I take pleasure in introducing to you my friend Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, of Washington, D.C., who wishes to confer with you in a matter of deep moment to all the people of this country. Mrs. Terrell is a speaker of exceptional ability & power, and has been a member of the Washington School board for many years. I hold her in high regard, and am sure that you will be glad to make her acquaintance. Yours very sincerely, Francis J. Garrison. THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES FOUNDED 1824 OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES A. AUGUSTUS HEALY.......PRESIDENT HON. CHARLES A SCHIEREN.......FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT CARLL H. DESILVER.......SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT ROBERT B. WOODWARD.......THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT CLINTON W. LUDLUM.......TREASURER GEORGE C. BRACKETT.......SECRETARY RE-INCORPORATED 1890 OFFICERS OF THE COUNCIL REV. J. M. FARRAR, D. D. .......PRESIDENT J. HERBERT LOW, M. A. ........SECRETARY ------------- DIRECTOR PROF. FRANKLIN W. HOOPER, M. A. OFFICE: THE BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, LAFAYETTE AVENUE BETWEEN FULTON STREET AND FLATBUSH AVENUE Brooklyn, December 20, 1911. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, 326 T Street, N. W., Washington, D.C. My dear Mrs. Terrell: On behalf of the Board of Trustees and Council of the Institute I thank you most heartily for your series of five lectures on "The Negro in the United States." The subject matter of these lectures I am assured by officers and members of the Institute has been excellent, and the matter has been admirably presented. I regret exceedingly that I was not able to hear any part of any of your lectures. I needed to hear them. The lectures deserved to have a very large attendance. I believe the attendance should have been larger because of their great value. We have to take into account, however, that the great body of people in any community go to hear lectures only on those subjects in which they are especially interested, or go to hear lectures from which they derive some personal benefit or enjoyment. In other words, people do not go to lectures in order that they may help along a good cause, or in order that they may find what they themselves ought to do in the interest of a good cause. We can give a lecture on Goethe's "Faust" [*2. Mrs. Terrell*] and have a thousand come to hear it, although they have been hearing lectures on Faust, reading Faust, seeing the play and hearing the opera for a quarter of a century. All this is well, but I fear that this continual hearing of lectures, witnessing the drama and hearing the opera contains an element of selfishness among the well-to-do. We none of us have any right to spend our time and money in a selfish way, but only in the interest of the public good. We are glad to have the opportunity to offer lectures such as these that have been given by you because they are a protest against the selfishness and self indulgence to be found in members of any community. Personally I thank you also for coming to us. It has been a great privilege to me to make your acquaintance and I trust that we may have you with us in future years. Very sincerely yours, Franklin. W. Hooper. W. RADCLIFFE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS December 21, 1911 My dear Mrs. Terrell, We shall be glad to have you come on the 28th of February and to do what we can toward your securing a satisfactory audience. Though neither the College nor the Guild has any money for the expenses of which you speak, it does not seem right that you should pay them yourself. If you are willing to leave that matter swinging for a while, I hope to write to you again. Meanwhile we will regard the date as settled unless something unexpected happens. Sincerely yours, L. B. R. Briggs. Mrs. R. H. Terrell 735, Exchange Building Boston, Dec 8 1911 Dear Mr. Briggs I wish you would talk with Mrs. Terrell, who will hand you this, & see if she cannot be given a chance to address the Ratcliffe students. It seems to me in time that our young people should be made to understand the race problem in this country and hear the [role?] of the colored people. We are drifting with very serious trouble & the remedy is light. We cannot afford to play the ostrich & hide our heads. The sin will find us out Mrs. Terrell speaks very well and is a lady whose words will tell. Hope you can give her a chance. Sincerely M. Storey Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.