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(SCIENCE.) George Washington Carver. Letter announcing that "barriers, my precious boy, are being burned away." Autograph Letter Signed "Geo. W. Carver" to "My beloved boy Mr. Davis." 2 pages on one sheet, 11 x 8½ inches, of Tuskegee letterhead; 2 punch holes in upper margin, mailing folds. Tuskegee Institute, AL, 3 July 1934
The eminent scientist celebrates the reception his work is meeting throughout the south: "The 'Guiding Principle' as you please to call it would not have thrown us together and given us so many things in common if he did not mean that in due time we were to study and share our common interests together, and pass it along so that those who are to come after us will . . . develop this marvelous country, and in a way that it has never dawned upon humanity. Barriers, my precious boy, are being burned away. If you could be here a week and see the large number of people who come to consult me about their afflictions, people high in station. . . . Right here in the South (in Ga.) a whole church is praying for the success of the new work I am doing." The recipient was Ford Clinton Davis (1906-1976), a white peanut factory employee in Alabama, and a protégé of Carver.
