ur is for us." I hope that what I
have thus very hurriedly written may prove of some value to you
in the preservation of the annals of Virginia as respects the
black man.

Respectfully yours,
(Signed) GEORGE FREEMAN BRAGG, JR.

P.S. I want to correct a statement. There were two of us in the
Lower House. Clinton Paige, and myself, were in the lower
chamber, and Moseley on the Senate side. I began my first work of
the ministry in Norfolk in 1887, and about that time the Hon.
R.G.L. Paige was appointed Postmaster of Norfolk City. He really
ran the office. I have spent many a pleasant moment with him in
his office there. It will be interesting to state just here, that
"Dick" Paige made his escape from Norfolk by way of the Under
Ground Railroad, only a little fellow of nine or ten years of
age, secreting himself in a vessel leaving that port. He was
educated in Boston. After the civil war he returned to Norfolk.

Round about the same time that I took charge in Norfolk, John C.
Asbury, now of Philadelphia, was practising law in Norfolk Co.
and city. Norfolk county is one of the largest and richest
counties in the State. Asbury was elected by the voters of that
county Prosecuting Attorney, and to my own knowledge, he most
acceptably filled the office during the term of four years, I
think, for which he was elected. He was recognized as one of the
able political leaders of that section. Captain Fields was
elected and served as Commonwealth's Attorney of Newport News and
Warwick county. Rev. J. M. Dawson was the county treasurer where
the ancient capital Williamsburg is situated, while a Mr.
Mitchell, for a number of years was the Collector of Customs for
the historic port of Yorktown.

(Signed) G. F. B., Jr.

Phone 4512

E.W. SHERMAN, _Vice President_
Guaranty Mutual Life & Health Insurance Co.
774 E. Waldburg St., Savannah, Ga.

Feb. 8th, 1920.

PROF. MONROE N. WORK,
Tuskegee, Ala.

_My dear Mr. Work_:

I have perused with considerable interest your review of the
political history of the Reconstruction period. I have gotten
from the review qu