TLS, one page, 6 x 8.25, Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute letterhead, May 11, 1906. Letter regarding his former slaveowners. In part: “The family to which I belonged in Franklin County, Virginia, was named Burroughs. The head of the family was named Jones Burroughs. The young man who was killed during the war, as I now remember, was named William Burroughs, and he had a younger brother who was also in the war and who was not killed, named Newton Burroughs, and I think he is now living. Miss Laura Burroughs, one of the sisters, I think is living somewhere in Franklin County at present. My mother was named Mrs. Jane Ferguson.” In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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