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]
[1] "Wilson L. Newman correspondence with George Washington Carver, 1926-1943,” in the Wilson L. Newman correspondence with George Washington Carver #4641, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.. Transcribed by Hannah Skjellum.