Letter 28 November 1910. ALS, 3 pps.

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Letter 28 November 1910. ALS, 3 pps.

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Fisher, the principal of the Polytechnic Seminary in Danville, KY writes from Kalamazoo, MI to Mr. J.A. Quisenberry in Danville. Fisher had been offered a job of Field Secretary for Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute and writes to Quisenberry for advice on the business aspects of this move, which would end the Polytechnic Seminary and divert its funds to the Tuskegee Institute.

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