- Creator
- Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
- Call number
- MssCol 4673
- Physical description
- .1 linear feet (1 folder)
- Preferred Citation
Booker T. Washington letters, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Collection consists of two typescript letters dated 1901, signed by Booker T. Washington, African-American leader, educator and author, as well as a clipped signature. Letters are written from the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama and are addressed to publishers. Washington writes to John Kendrick Bangs of Harper's Weekly, inviting him to attend the Negro Conference at Tuskegee in February. He advises Bangs that he is mailing him a copy of his book, The Future of the American Negro, and promises to send an article he has written for consideration. A letter to the Youth's Companion gives permission to use his photographic portrait.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Purchased from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1936 and American Book Auction, 1962; donation by Merton S. Yewdale, 1937
Processing information
Compiled by Susan P. Waide, 2015
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Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328