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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.)

my good Sir, beg, yes, beg in the name of a common God, stop all vile pictures. Let not your name be spoiled with this blot of crime. Surely a few dollars are not worth the bitter memory of a death bed that the money was gotten by the of the pure, and innocent youth of our land. Think my friend of your own boyhood. Think how easily a boy may be corrupted. Let me earnestly beg the [suspension or suppression?] of all indecent pictures from your boxes. Will you not do this? How easy. Will you lose anything? No God will see to that. "Better had a millstone be hanged about the neck of any one who shall offend one of these little ones." God will keep the terrible curse from falling on you.

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