orgia House of
Representatives, representing Liberty County in the "80's" a few
years after his graduation from Atlanta University. As far as I
know he was the most thoroughly educated colored man to have had
the privilege of being a member of the Georgia Legislature. I
knew him intimately. We were pupils at Beach Institute, this city
at the same time, later fellow students at Atlanta University.
Again regretting that I am not able to give the desired
information, I am

Very truly yours,
Signed--
P. A. DENEGALL.

SAYBROOK, CONN.
February 14, 1920.

MR. MONROE N. WORK,
Tuskegee Institute
Alabama.

_My dear Sir_:

I have read with keen interest the facts presented by you in the
Journal of Negro History for January 1920 on "Some Negro Members
of Reconstruction Conventions etc."

I have known intimately Gen. Samuel Smalls and his family in
Beaufort, S.C. and Miss Olive Rainey and her mother, daughter and
wife of Joseph H. Rainey; Miss Mamie Hayne of S.C. daughter of
Henry E. Hayne.

One daughter of Gen. Smalls still lives in the paternal home in
Beaufort, where are the books and personal possessions of her
distinguished father. She was companion and house-keeper for him
in his late years; she is doubtless able to furnish much valuable
information.

Brothers of Henry E. Hayne still live, though they do not
identify themselves with the Negro race. The daughter does,
however, and has friends of her father's generation who could
help in building up a Hayne's history.

Among the relatives is the mother of my husband and a large
family of relatives, the older ones of whom lived thro'
Reconstruction Days in South Carolina.

Miss Rainey and her mother live in Springfield, Massachusetts.

My own family on the maternal side is descended from George
Houston, member of the Alabama Legislature 1868-70.

I have long felt that the last opportunity to collect data
concerning this interesting period in our history, is while this
present generation lives; the next generation will have no
interest in it.

If I can assist