Perhaps I can illustrate this point in no better way
than by relating the following incident. Mrs. Washington and I were
invited to attend a reception given by the Duke and Duchess of
Sutherland, at Stafford House -- said to be the finest house in
London; I may add that I believe the Duchess of Sutherland is said to
be the most beautiful woman in England. There must have been at least
three hundred persons at this reception. Twice during the evening the
Duchess sought us out for a conversation, and she asked me to write
her when we got home, and tell her more about the work at Tuskegee.
This I did. When Christmas came we were surprised and delighted to
receive her photograph with her autograph on it. The correspondence
has continued, and we now feel that in the Duchess of Sutherland we
have one of our warmest friends.
After three months in Europe we sailed from Southampton in the
steamship _St. Louis_. On this steamer there was a fine library that
had been presented to the ship by the citizens of St. Louis, Mo. In
this library I found a life of Frederick Douglass, which I began
reading. I became especially interested in Mr. Douglass's description
of the way he was treated on shipboard during his first or second
visit to England. In this description he told how he was not
permitted to enter the cabin, but had to confine himself to the deck
of the ship.
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