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562 & ••••••••• 280 • Henry A. Baker to SBA New York, Oct 20/05 My dear Aunt Susan: At a regular meeting of the Board of Directors on Oct 17th, I was appointed the Medical Director of this Company. 1 To say that I am pleased does not express all of my feelings—I am overjoyed, for the position is one of great honor and very great responsibility. I cannot help but feel,at this time,that your precept & teachings & those of Aunt Mary have helped to make me capable of holding such a position. I shall do all that lays within me to make my services satisfactory to those who have entrusted me with the office and I feel sure that I shall be successful . We are all well and send best love Your nephew U H. A. Baker Y ALS, on letterhead of Washington Life Insurance Company, SBA Papers, MCR-S. 1. The Washington Life Insurance Company, based in New York City. Baker wrote on letterhead that announced his new title. ••••••••• 281 • SBA to Booker T. Washington Rochester, N.Y. Nov. 6, 1905. My dear Friend—¶1 Your letter of Oct. 20th is received. Your last Annual Report is splendid . 1 The visit of the President at your Institute was most timely and it has had a splendid effect upon the south. 2 I don’t know but what the southern papers are scolding about it but I have seen nothing of it. Your school has set the example and Normal and Industrial schools are starting up all over the south. They are all splendid in that they are helping to educate the colored people and they are rapidly becoming an educated class. 20 october 1905 ^ 563¶2 Since the receipt of your letter we have held the annual meeting of the N.Y. State Suffrage Society. Miss Emily Howland of Sherwood, Cayuga Co. and Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller of Geneva, N.Y., were present. They both had received your letter, I think, and your annual report, and I said to them that it would be splendid if we three, with Mrs. Eliza Wright Osborn a sister of dear Lucretia Mott—of Auburn, N.Y., 3 could go to your 25th anniversary in April,or whenever you hold it. Mrs. Smith Miller is 83, and she failed to go with us when we were at Tuskegee three years ago and she has regretted it ever since. You will remember she is the daughter of Gerritt Smith,who was always the true friend of the colored people. I shall be 86 when that time comes. Now haven’t you a hotel or some place where we could go during our stay in Tuskegee, for we shouldn’t want to go there without making a good visit to you and Mrs. Washington, and the school in general. With love to Mrs. Washington and Mrs. Logan, Sincerely yours, U Susan B. Anthony Y TLS, on NAWSA letterhead, Booker T. Washington Papers, DLC. Directed to Tuskegee Institute, Ala. 1. The Twenty-fourth Annual Report of the Principal, Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, For the Year Ending May 30, 1905 (Tuskegee Institute,Ala.,1905).In it,Washington expressed hope that the coming twenty-fifth anniversary would be “celebrated in a befitting manner; that is, in a way that shall prove useful to the whole South” (14). (With assistance from the Tuskegee University Archives.) 2. Theodore Roosevelt visited the Tuskegee Institute on 24 October 1905. 3. SBA confuses generations: Eliza Osborne was a niece of Lucretia Mott. The same disorientation occurs in SBA to Jessie Anthony, 26 August 1905, Film, 44:705–6; a visit to her nephew in Leavenworth is described as a visit to her late brother. Textual Notes¶2 l. 6 Osborn na sister of dear Lucretia Mott—p 6 november 1905 ...

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