Some good ladies in Boston arranged a public meeting in the interests of Tuskegee, to be held in the Hollis Street Theatre.

This meeting was attended by large numbers of the best people of Boston, of both races.

Bishop Lawrence presided.

In addition to an address made by myself, Mr.Paul Lawrence Dunbar read from his poems, and Dr.W.E.B.

Du Bois read an original sketch.
Some of those who attended this meeting noticed that I seemed unusually tired, and some little time after the close of the meeting, one of the ladies who had been interested in it asked me in a casual way if I had ever been to Europe.