{"id":983,"date":"1942-09-10T12:00:10","date_gmt":"1942-09-10T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp\/index.php\/2015\/05\/20\/letter-to-w-a-plecker-re-melungeon-classification-2\/"},"modified":"2021-09-12T05:38:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T05:38:10","slug":"letter-to-w-a-plecker-re-melungeon-classification-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/1942\/09\/10\/letter-to-w-a-plecker-re-melungeon-classification-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to W. A. Plecker re: Melungeon Classification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<h4>September 10, 1942<br \/>\nMrs. John Trottwood Moore<br \/>\nLetter to Walter Plecker<br \/>\nRegarding Melungeon Classification<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>September 10, 1942<\/p>\n<p>W. A. Plecker, M. D. Registrar<br \/>\nBureau of Vital Statistics<br \/>\nDepartment of Health<br \/>\nRichmond, Virginia<\/p>\n<p>My dear Dr. Pleckner:<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>We have Carter G. Woodson&#8217;s &#8220;Free Negro Heads of Families in the United States in 1830&#8221;, but I have never made a study of it.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for the circulars inclosed and I wish you full success with your undertaking.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. John Trotwood Moore<br \/>\nState Librarian and Archivist<\/p>\n<p>MRS JTM:VAR<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.multiracial.com\/letters\/plecker2.html\">August 5, 1942 Letter from Walter Plecker to Tennessee Secretary of State<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.multiracial.com\/letters\/moore.html\">August 12, 1942 Letter from Mrs. Moore to Walter Plecker<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.multiracial.com\/letters\/plecker3.html\">August 20, 1942 Letter from Walter Plecker to Mrs. Moore<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.multiracial.com\/letters\/moore2.html\">September 10, 1942 Letter from Mrs. Moore to Walter Plecker<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 10, 1942 Mrs. John Trottwood Moore Letter to Walter Plecker Regarding Melungeon Classification &nbsp; &nbsp; September 10, 1942 W. A. Plecker, M. D. 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