M.F.Foster, the member of the Legislature from Tuskegee.

Second, we received one thousand dollars from the John F.Slater Fund.

Our work seemed to please the trustees of this fund, as they soon began increasing their annual grant.

This has been added to from time to time until at present we receive eleven thousand dollars annually from the Fund.

The other help to which I have referred came in the shape of an allowance from the Peabody Fund.