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GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

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GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'><BR><BR></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>“I Am Not Worried or Grieving”</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'><BR><BR>(1864-1943). Educator and pioneer in agricultural sciences. Born a slave, Washington rose to prominence with his work with peanuts, sweet potatoes and soybeans; founded George Washington Carver Foundation at Tuskegee for research in natural science. ALS “<i>G.W. Carver</i>” on his Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute letterhead, 4to, 1¼pp, single leaf, Tuskegee, Jan 16, 1933. To Ford Davis, a white student studying botany whom Carver befriended. In part, “...<i>I did not want to write you until you could see the marvelous book, which contains one of your beautiful letters...It is one of the finest examples of crystallized love I have ever seen. I do hope my dear boy is well, the closing of the bank of Tuskegee did not leave me money to get a pair of shoes, but I am not worried or grieving just praying for health and strength to do my work</i>...” Boldly penned. General toning, two file holes at top margin through two words of second page; normal folds; o/w Fine.</span></p>