September 10, 1942
Mrs. John Trottwood Moore
Letter to Walter Plecker
Regarding Melungeon Classification
September 10, 1942
W. A. Plecker, M. D. Registrar
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Department of Health
Richmond, Virginia
My dear Dr. Pleckner:
You were most kind to reply so fully to my letter, and you have given me so much information on this vitally interesting subject that I am really grateful.
My husband was so interested in it and had studied it with a view to writing on the subject but never got around to it. I recall that he was interested in an article on the Melungeons that appeared perhaps two years before his death (May 10, 1929) in the Dearborn Independent. I do not have the article but I think it was written by a North Carolina writer. I am sorry I cant be more definite but if there is a file in the State or Public Library it might interest you.
We have Carter G. Woodson’s “Free Negro Heads of Families in the United States in 1830”, but I have never made a study of it.
Virginia is fortunate to have you and Miss Kelly doing such an important piece of research. I wish Tennessee could borrow you. Anyhow, what you are doing will be, in effect, for all the Southern States and there was never a time when it was more needed.
If I am in Richmond at any time I shall certainly be pleased to stop by your office and talk with you and Miss Kelley. If your work is to be published we shall want to secure a copy for this library.
Thank you for the circulars inclosed and I wish you full success with your undertaking.
Sincerely,
Mrs. John Trotwood Moore
State Librarian and Archivist
MRS JTM:VAR
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