Description
Letter from her stepfather, Marion Hamilton, to Patricia Stephens regarding media coverage of the civil rights movement in the South and announcing the engagement of Junior Houston to Annie Phillips.
Creator
Hamilton, Marion M., 1901-1973
To
Due, Patricia Stephens, 1939-2012
February 24, 1960
Dearest Patricia:
Guess Priscilla and you are all ears now wondering what the next move will be made. It can be some tense moments for you and I can imagine the anxiety.
We have listened to all Radio Broadcast and News that comes over Television, keeping up with the news in the paper and checking on events that are taking place in other parts of the South. It is all one grand mess. I just hope there will be some gains accomplished.
This is intended to be just a note as I have some news for you that might not be to your liking and on the other hand it may come as a relief. So here goes.
Junior Houston has placed a ring on the finger of Miss Annie Pearl Phillips. She says they are now engaged and plan to marry soon.
Miss Annie Pearl Phillips is a Traveling Librarian in the school system and is assigned to my school. She works here on Mondays and Tuesdays, at Lake Shore Elem. on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and at Okeechobee one week Friday and at Rosenwald the [other] week Friday. This is her first year out of school. She is twenty-two (22) years old and quite attractive in an odd way.
Junior has not mentioned this to your Mother nor to me. I don't know if he still has you thinking that you are the one and only, or if he is trying to play the two of you at the same time. Only time will tell.
Got to hurry now. Be good and write.
Love
[Signature] Daddy Mario
Chicago Manual of Style
Hamilton, Marion M., 1901-1973. Letter from Marion Hamilton to Patricia Stephens, February 24, 1960. 1960-02-24. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/329138>, accessed 14 November 2024.
MLA
Hamilton, Marion M., 1901-1973. Letter from Marion Hamilton to Patricia Stephens, February 24, 1960. 1960-02-24. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/329138>
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(State Archives of Florida/Hamilton)
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