103 WEST 131 ST., NEW YORK CITY. March 11, 1918. MR. MONROE N. WORK, Editor Negro Year Book, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. _Dear Sir_: I presume you received my letter of February 18, also the one of January 19, relative to corrections in the data on Reconstruction. I herewith send you a few more before you go to press on your book pertaining to the part the Negro played in the political history of the Southern States during the Reconstruction period: I am in error as to James Martin, of Abbeville, who was assassinated, as being colored. I was informed that he was colored, but in reading the eulogies delivered by the different members of the House and Senate, I find that he was not even an American. He was a native of Ireland. W. A. Bishop, who represented the Greenville district in the first legislature, was white, not colored. In the list of delegates to the Republican meeting at Charlestown, May 9, 1867, he is given as white in Reynolds' book. I met a friend from Greenville about ten days ago and in speaking to him about Bishop he said that he was white and that he knew of no colored Bishops in that district. On page 9 of my data I state that Mr. Whipper was born in South Carolina. I met his son, who is living here, sometime ago and he informed me that his father was born in Pennsylvania. With reference to Judge Whipper I would add that one of the first acts of the first legislature was to elect a commission of three members to revise and consolidate the Statute laws of the State and that he was the first member elected. Quite a tribute to his legal ability. On page 12 add the following names as from the North. Rev. B. F. Randolph--Senator--Orangeburg district. W. J. Whipper--Member--Beaufort district. Judge J. J. Wright--Beaufort district--afterwards Associate Judge Supreme Court, and on page 8, under his name please state--born in Pennsylvania. On page 107 Reynolds' book--Abbeville Co.--W. J. Lomax, should be Hutson J. Lomax, this is official. On page 59 and 77 he has it H. J. which is correct. Same page--Fairfield--Henry Jacob, should be Jacobs--He was also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention--See page 77. Very Respectfully, (Signed) H. A. WALLACE Copy. SUMNER AND STEVENS ADVISE WITH REFERENCE TO RECONSTRUCTION POLICY IN SOUTH CAROLINA The late Honorable Francis L. Cardoza at one time Secretary of State for South Carolina, several years before his death stated to the undersigned the following in substance: That a number of colored men met and appointed a committee which was sent to Washington to get the advice of Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens concerning the formation of the political organization for the newly enfranchised Negro citizen shortly after the adoption of the 14th Amendment.