Sale 2471 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 29, 2018

198 198 c   (EDUCATION.) Lockwood, Lewis C. Mary S. Peake, the Colored Teacher at Fortress Monroe. Frontispiece portrait and 2 other plates. 64 pages. 16mo, publisher’s cloth, minor wear, moderate spotting; moderate foxing, lacking tissue guard; school library inscription on flyleaf. Boston:American Tract Society, [1863?] [600/900] Scarce narrative of the life and work of Mary Smith Kelsey Peake (1823-1862), a trailblazing African-American teacher. Peake was the first teacher for freedmen hired by the American Missionary Association, and founded a school for the children of ex-slaves in the fall of 1861 at Hampton,VA, held under the Emancipation Oak near Fortress Monroe.The author of this biography knew her work first-hand while he served as a missionary at Fortress Monroe. Mary Peake died of tuberculosis in 1862, but the small school she founded evolved into Hampton University. Afro-Americana Supplement 1310; Sabin 41750. Only 4 copies in OCLC. 199 c   (EDUCATION.) Washington, Booker T. Letter to a fellow educator regarding a new student at the Tuskegee Institute. Letter Signed to Professor David E. Gordon of the La Overture School in St. Louis. One page, 10 x 7 3 / 4 inches to sight, on letterhead of the Tuskegee Institute; mailing folds. Matted and framed with a photograph of Washington; not examined out of frame. Tuskegee, AL, 22 October 1904 [300/400] “Samuel Wilson, to whom you refer, has entered Tuskegee and we shall give him every opportunity to take advantage of the opportunities offered here. He has already made a very favorable impression upon us and we hope that he will live up to your recommendation.” EDUCATION LOTS 198 - 202