A letter from Booker T. Washington to Charles F. Meserve, January 25, 1897, Shaw University Archives, James E. Cheek Learning Resources Center, Box SU181, Office of the President of Dr. Charles F. Meserve, Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina. Retrieved by Jerry M. Grimes, 2022.
Jerry Michael Grimes II, "A Collision of Remnants: Sarah Baker Leonard Tupper and the Quest to Build a Post-Enslavement America " (PhD diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2025), 145.
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Second Letter [transcribed by Jerry M. Grimes]A letter from Booker T. Washington to Charles F. Meserve, January 25, 1897, Shaw University Archives, James E. Cheek Learning Resources Center, Box SU181, Office of the President of Dr. Charles F. Meserve, Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina. Retrieved by Jerry M. Grimes, 2022.
Jerry Michael Grimes II, "A Collision of Remnants: Sarah Baker Leonard Tupper and the Quest to Build a Post-Enslavement America " (PhD diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2025), 145.
Jerry Michael Grimes II, "A Collision of Remnants: Sarah Baker Leonard Tupper and the Quest to Build a Post-Enslavement America " (PhD diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2025), 145.
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Raleigh, N.C., Jan. 5, 1895
Rev. Booker T. WashingtonPrin. N&I Inst., Tuskegee, Ala.
My dear Sir: -
I am in receipt of your kind favor of the 2nd inst inviting me to be present at the Tuskegee Negro conference on the 26th of next month. I shall accept this invitation if it is possible for me to do so. I have to make a trip to the north before that time and shall do everything in my power to make my arrangements so that I can return in season to be with you. I am deeply interested in your work and shall be glad to show my sympathy by my presence. Trusting that the conference will meet your anticipations and will be productive of great good to all concerned, I remain
Faithfully yours,
Charles F. Meserve,
President
Rev. Booker T. WashingtonPrin. N&I Inst., Tuskegee, Ala.
My dear Sir: -
I am in receipt of your kind favor of the 2nd inst inviting me to be present at the Tuskegee Negro conference on the 26th of next month. I shall accept this invitation if it is possible for me to do so. I have to make a trip to the north before that time and shall do everything in my power to make my arrangements so that I can return in season to be with you. I am deeply interested in your work and shall be glad to show my sympathy by my presence. Trusting that the conference will meet your anticipations and will be productive of great good to all concerned, I remain
Faithfully yours,
Charles F. Meserve,
President
Third Letter [transcribed by Jerry M. Grimes]A letter to James E. Shepard from Charles F. Meserve, January 8, 1895, Shaw University Archives, James E. Cheek Learning Resources Center, Box SU181, Office of the President of Dr. Charles F. Meserve, Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina. Retrieved by Jerry M. Grimes, 2022.
Jerry Michael Grimes II, "A Collision of Remnants: Sarah Baker Leonard Tupper and the Quest to Build a Post-Enslavement America " (PhD diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2025), 178-179.
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Raleigh, N.C., Jan. 8, 1895Mr/James E. Shepard800 S Church St., Charlotte, N.C.
Dear Friend: -
Your favor of the 7th ins [illegible] is at hand. I was surprised to learn that you have been written to by my attorneys concerning your indebtness to Shaw University. I had some time ago as you know, a talk with you and remembered your promise. I instructed my attorneys that there were several who had made promises for future payment and that they should not write to them. I presume, in view of the large number who are owing Shaw, several hundred in all, that they made a mistake and did not correctly remember the names of those that I had spoken to them about. I shall be glad to see you in a few days as you say you will be in Raleigh.
Faithfully yours,
Charles F. Meserve
President
Dear Friend: -
Your favor of the 7th ins [illegible] is at hand. I was surprised to learn that you have been written to by my attorneys concerning your indebtness to Shaw University. I had some time ago as you know, a talk with you and remembered your promise. I instructed my attorneys that there were several who had made promises for future payment and that they should not write to them. I presume, in view of the large number who are owing Shaw, several hundred in all, that they made a mistake and did not correctly remember the names of those that I had spoken to them about. I shall be glad to see you in a few days as you say you will be in Raleigh.
Faithfully yours,
Charles F. Meserve
President
Research Publicly Presented, October 23, 2025, 11:00 aM
As a part of the Inaugural Graduate Research Symposium, I was honored to present my findings publicly for the first time. I have been researching the contributions of Sarah Baker Leonard Tupper to the founding of Shaw University, formerly the Raleigh Theological Institute (1865-1870), and the Shaw Collegiate Institute (1870-1875). My extensive findings are the result of the cooperative efforts between my committee chairperson and dissertation committee at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and the staff of the Shaw University Archives, James E. Cheek Learning Resources Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. The working title, "A More Secure South" was later changed to "A Collision of Remnants: Sarah Baker Leonard Tupper, and the Quest to Build a Post-Enslavement America."