Raynor HCA 2013-01
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/10/2013
Typed Letter Signed “Booker T. Washington,” one page, 7.75” x 10.25” (visible). Letterhead of “The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute,” Tuskegee, Alabama, February 23, 1904. To Ralph D. Paine, 826 DeGraw Avenue, Forest Hills, Newark, N.J. In apparent fine condition. In full, “By this mail I send you two copies of the address delivered in New York on the 12th of February. The chapter on the moral and religious work is being prepared and will go forward to you this week. I also hope to send the article on the Russell Plantation. I shall be glad to hear how the Ladies Home Journal matter comes out. I leave the choice of chapters entirely to you and to them. I am also having prepared the chapter on ‘Head and Hands Together’, which will be sent you this week. I think this will cover everything that you have suggested. I have spoken to Mr. Carver about hurrying forward his material to you.” Presented inside a 20” x 16” mahogany leather presentation display book. Matted together with mint blocks of four U.S. 10¢ Booker T. Washington postage stamps (1940) and four U.S. 3¢ Booker T. Washington centennial stamps (1956), a 4.5” x 6.75” printed illustration of Washington, the banner of the February 20, 1904 edition of the “New-York tribune Review Weekly,” a newspaper article about Washington’s address at the Hampton Institute titled “The Value of Negro Education,” and soil samples from Booker T. Washington’s birthplace and grave. The letter and related items displayed are under clear acetate and matted in tan suede.
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