Letter to Wilson L. Newman from George Washington Carver, July 18, 1930

July - 18 -30

My very own dear “Sonny Boy”:--

                How I wish I had you this very

minute to give you a good spanking.

just to think of you using that kind of

language and applying it to me, terrible to

think of.

    Of course you could prove most

anything by my table mates if it cast

aspersions upon me. As you know a good

strong disciplinearian [sic] is never liked.

    To be sure I remember Miss Caudill,

a beautiful and accomplished young

lady she is.

    I wish something could be found for

Mrs. Kester. Dear, I hope your Father is

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much better by this time, know just how

anxious you feel.

    Glad indeed am I to learn that your

physical condition is so good.

    Dear, I hope you can stop long enough

in Charleston to get at first hand its

historical setting; it is indeed such, I

am sure you will find it the quaintest

City you ever was in.

     I too was much depressed over the

happenings in, Texas, Okla. Ala, and Ga.

it seems as if Old Satan was loosed for a

little season and was buisy [sic] doing his

deadly work.

     The utterances of Mr. “Cole Blease” on

lynching is I think even more regretable [sic]

as it strikes at the very foundation of law and

order.

     Dear, to me it is so sad to think that you

are going so far away.

     May God ever bless and keep my precious

“Sonny Boy.”                         G.W. Carver[1]