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Title:
Letter from John T. Wightman to Richard Harvey Wright, January 3, 1888: Electronic Edition.
Author:
Wightman, John T.
Wright, Richard Harvey, 1851-1929
Funder:
Funding by the Institute of Museum of Library Services (IMLS) and the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), with support provided through North Carolina ECHO.
Transcription Information:
Text transcribed by: Barbara Post
Images scanned by: Digital Production Center
Text encoded by: Katherine M. Wisser
Transcription Edition:
Edition: First edition,
Date: 2006
Publication Information:
Publisher: Duke University Libraries
Date: 2006
Availability: ©This work is the property of the Duke University Libraries. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching, and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text.
Source Information:
Title: Letter from John T. Wightman to Richard Harvey Wright, January 3, 1888
Author: John T. Wightman
Date: 18880103
Note: A Baltimore clergyman, John T. Wightman expresses his disapproval about the photographs packaged in cigarette boxes and the evil the cigarette cards are doing to youth. Wightman begs Richard Harvey wright to end the packaging of "vile pictures" in Lone Jack cigarettes.
P: Richard Harvey Wright Papers, 1870-1952, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Class: Cigarette industry -- North Carolina -- 19th century
Class: Cigarette cards -- North Carolina -- Durham -- 19th century
Class: Lone Jack Cigarette Company (Lynchburg, Va.)
Class: Tobacco industry -- North Carolina -- Durham -- 19th century
Class: Ethics
Class: Correspondence
Class: Durham (N.C.) -- History
Class: Wightman, John T.
Class: Wright, Richard Harvey, 1851-1929
Class: Durham (N.C.)
Class: Baltimore (Md.)
Class: Lynchburg (Va.)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Cigarette industry -- North Carolina -- 19th century
Cigarette cards -- North Carolina -- Durham -- 19th century
Lone Jack Cigarette Company (Lynchburg, Va.)
Tobacco industry -- North Carolina -- Durham -- 19th century
Ethics
Correspondence
Durham (N.C.) -- History
Wightman, John T.
Wright, Richard Harvey, 1851-1929
Durham (N.C.)
Baltimore (Md.)
Lynchburg (Va.)

advantage, and some of the pictures are of this good character, but, my dear Sir, let me most respectfully expostulate against some of them coming into the hands of young boys and perchance falling under the eyes of pure girls. These evil ones add really nothing to the sale of the article, while they are polluting our innocent children. Let me beg for them, for your own little boy, if you have one, for your own little girl, if there be one in your family, or if not for your Mother's sake, for your sisters [sic] sake, in behalf of all the pure women of the land, in behalf of the boys at school and even the little girls, let me,

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