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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 1 of [Robert Lee Wright] February 1939 iooert Lee vright 6alisbury C Attorney at Law Tiilliam Edward hennessee writer COUNSELORATLAW Original Name Changed Name Robert Lee Wright Stonewall Dexter
- Contributor: Hennessee, William Edward - Wright, Robert Lee
- Date: 1939-02
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 2 of [Robert Lee Wright] COUNSELOR AT LAW Slowly along the hot and dusty Carolina road moved a battered Studebaker wagon Sitting in the straw of its bed were Jefferson Davis Stonewall Jackson Julius Caesar and Naopleon...
- Contributor: Hennessee, William Edward - Wright, Robert Lee
- Date: 1939-02
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 3 of [Robert Lee Wright] Clumpin Billy four sons in five years and had worked his fields and tended his stock while doing so Her labors of both kinds had left their marks But in spite of...
- Contributor: Hennessee, William Edward - Wright, Robert Lee
- Date: 1939-02
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 4 of [Robert Lee Wright] live up to right from the start iiebbe I cant ever give em much else but theyll allus hey to say their Pa an Ma started em out right As a sutler...
- Contributor: Hennessee, William Edward - Wright, Robert Lee
- Date: 1939-02
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 5 of [Robert Lee Wright] had done right well for hisself and now that taxes were confiscating much valuable real estate in the reconstructed south he lowed hed buy a mite of it mebbemight be good policy...
- Contributor: Hennessee, William Edward - Wright, Robert Lee
- Date: 1939-02
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 6 of [Robert Lee Wright] fore went up town one Sunday to overlook the various congre gations Now hits like this Ma he started at the dinner table that noon I looked em all over and tie...
- Contributor: Hennessee, William Edward - Wright, Robert Lee
- Date: 1939-02
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 7 of [Robert Lee Wright] to be perfectly frank there are no vacancies on our church rolls at the present time Depend upon it though that I shall place your name upon our waiting list and should...
- Contributor: Hennessee, William Edward - Wright, Robert Lee
- Date: 1939-02
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 8 of [Robert Lee Wright] difference Now me and your Lila well just set back and be indifferent like and go to church with each one of you kinda turn about So you boys do like I...
- Contributor: Hennessee, William Edward - Wright, Robert Lee
- Date: 1939-02
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 9 of [Robert Lee Wright] of Clumpint Billy each took his place in the business and religious if not quite in the social life of the community From doctor to undertaker to lawyer as from Tinker to...
- Contributor: Hennessee, William Edward - Wright, Robert Lee
- Date: 1939-02
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 10 of [Robert Lee Wright] was dripping wet although all the money tne important money had been derived from or was dependent upon the liquor interests he aligned himself wholeheartedly with the dry cause His fatherinlaw who...
- Contributor: Hennessee, William Edward - Wright, Robert Lee
- Date: 1939-02
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 11 of [Robert Lee Wright] toward my wet clients but suppose he is a dry then I shall have his consideration And as with tne judge so and more so with the jury The wets will be...
- Contributor: Hennessee, William Edward - Wright, Robert Lee
- Date: 1939-02
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 12 of [Robert Lee Wright] dictated by policy It finally became an obsession He would not speak he would not act until his mind had rapidly thought out the effect Each sentence each iosture was dictated by...
- Contributor: Hennessee, William Edward - Wright, Robert Lee
- Date: 1939-02
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 13 of [Robert Lee Wright] receivership for Stebbins and Company Jefferson was another creditor and was appointed receiver and Honorable Stonewall Jackson Dexter attorney and counselor at law practice in State and Federal Courts became in nis...
- Contributor: Hennessee, William Edward - Wright, Robert Lee
- Date: 1939-02
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 14 of [Robert Lee Wright] His motions and gestures were unhurried and circular Rarely even in his most passionate flights of oratory did he raise his voice or make a gesture in the horizontal or vertical planes...
- Contributor: Hennessee, William Edward - Wright, Robert Lee
- Date: 1939-02
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 15 of [Robert Lee Wright] But his tricks were not always of the shady variety Sometimes they savored almost of genius He was a rough and ready psychologist of no little ability Once when defending a hardened...
- Contributor: Hennessee, William Edward - Wright, Robert Lee
- Date: 1939-02
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 16 of [Robert Lee Wright] It was always his policy to use as many witnesses as possible Most farmers like the dollar a day and mileage they got for coming to court not to speak of the...
- Contributor: Hennessee, William Edward - Wright, Robert Lee
- Date: 1939-02
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 17 of [Robert Lee Wright] Honest Jake The judge was forced to order the nams res gestae of the larceny turned over again to the defen dant Mrs Dexter had country ham at her next book club...
- Contributor: Hennessee, William Edward - Wright, Robert Lee
- Date: 1939-02
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 18 of [Robert Lee Wright] of the old man and out of his range of vision Then the tactics changed Mr White youre considered one of the leading farmers in your comAunity are you not This asked...
- Contributor: Hennessee, William Edward - Wright, Robert Lee
- Date: 1939-02
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 19 of [Robert Lee Wright] still uncut It was even said by these mean people that he had been sold the set in an unguarded moment by a slick book drummer who said it was the latest...
- Contributor: Hennessee, William Edward - Wright, Robert Lee
- Date: 1939-02
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 20 of [Robert Lee Wright] But two there were to whom he was the judge his wife and his faithful cook When he entered his portals he became Judge Dexter the patrician southern gentleman a Randolph a...
- Contributor: Hennessee, William Edward - Wright, Robert Lee
- Date: 1939-02
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 21 of [Robert Lee Wright] of the wagon in Fraleys meadow to the pseudo ancestral board under the i_roud Dexter arms is a long jump but Stonewall was agile and he made it oo0oo
- Contributor: Hennessee, William Edward - Wright, Robert Lee
- Date: 1939-02