Letter (LS) from Booker T. Washington, to Rev. Erastus Blakeslee, requesting money to cover the tuition of a student at Tuskegee Normal and Technical Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, c. 1900. On the letterhead of the Institute.
In full:
Dear Sir:Feeling that you would like to help forward the work which we are doing at Tuskegee for the elevation of our race in the South, I take the liberty of writing you and sending the enclosed circular which will give definite information.
The amount of work which our students do each year toward their own support is surprising.
Our students pay their own board, partly in cash and partly in labor. They are wholly unable to pay the cost of tuition, which is $50 a year for each one. If you can help us toward the whole or even a small part of one student's tuition it will greatly lighten our burden.
Boldly signed by Washington, who is named as principal.
