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Letter to W.A. Hamlett from T.T. Wentworth, Jr., August 16, 1927
| Title: | Letter to W.A. Hamlett from T.T. Wentworth, Jr., August 16, 1927. |
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| Name(s): |
Theodore Thomas Wentworth, Jr., Creator W.A. Hamlett, Recipient |
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| Type of Resource: | still image | |
| Genre: | Correspondence, Letter | |
| Date Created: | 1927-08-16 | |
| Date Issued: | 1927-08-16 | |
| Publisher: | West Florida History Center, UWF Libraries, digitized from materials loaned by the UWF Historic Trust Resource Center | |
| Place of Publication: | Pensacola, Florida | |
| Extent: | 1 letter | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | The letter is written on letterhead for T. T. Wentworth, Jr., Hardware, Tools, and Cutlery. Addressed to Dr. W. A. Hamlet (sic) and dated August 16, 1927. Wentworth states he has enclosed a check for $2.00 for 40 copies of the August issue of the Kourier Magazines (actual wording is "Fonty Kourier Magazines." It is believed this should be Forty). Wentworth states that "Having a mighty hard fight down here. The Catholics have a boycott on my business, and you know how the Protestants are here. Many intermarried with Catholic and other ties that the Catholics have entwined about them." He continues and says most of the local ministers will not work with the Klan. | |
| Identifier: | uwf_ht_2016.035.0332 (IID) | |
| Note(s): | A Project of the Gulf Coast Digital History Project. | |
| Subject(s): |
Ku Klux Klan Theodore Thomas Wentworth, Jr. W.A. Hamlett Kourier Magazine Escambia Klan No. 57 Pensacola, Florida 1920s 1927 |
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| Held by: | University of West Florida Historic Trust Resource Center, Hilton Green Room | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/uwf/fd/uwf_ht_2016.035.0332 | |
| Use and Reproduction: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/ | |
| Host Institution: | UWF |
