Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Booker T. Washington
President Roosevelt is pleased to learn that the plans for the building that Booker T. Washington wrote about were drawn up by his son-in-law, William Sidney Pittman. Roosevelt is interested to do anything he can to help with the building. He worries that the Brownsville Affair will be brought up again with the discovery of some of the men who were actively involved. He has shown Washington’s letter to the editor of The Outlook, Lyman Abbott.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-11-05