Gray Gables, Buzzard's Bay, Mass.,
October 6, 1895.
Booker T. Washington, Esq.:
My Dear Sir:
I thank you for sending me a copy of your
address delivered at the Atlanta Exposition.
I thank you with much enthusiasm for making the address. I
have read it with intense interest, and I think the Exposition
would be fully justified if it did not do more than furnish the
opportunity for its delivery. Your words cannot fail to delight
and encourage all who wish well for your race; and if our coloured
fellow-citizens do not from your utterances gather new hope and
form new determinations to gain every valuable advantage offered
them by their citizenship, it will be strange indeed.
Yours very truly,
Grover Cleveland.
