TLS, one page, 8.25 x 11, Tuskegee Normal letterhead, April 15, 1903. Washington pleads for funding for the Institute. In part: 'I am spending some time in New York in the interest of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, and I take the liberty of calling your attention to its condition. Our most urgent needs at the moment are in the direcction of securing money to pay our current expenses and the increasing of the endowment fund.' In fine condition. RRAuction COA.