Letter from George Washington Carver to Grady Porter of Tom Huston Peanut Company, February 3. 1942

One of the accomplishments which made George Washington Carver famous was his production of hundreds of model industrial products from crops like peanuts and sweet potatoes. In this letter to an employee of a peanut-processing company, Carver suggests that a soap he had made from peanut waste might be saleable. Carver manufactured few products himself, preferring to lead the way for others to do so.