Letters, May 16, 1938

"Harpers Ferry to Eagle Pass"

Sirs:

I'm hardly a professional Southerner, but I can't take it lying down, suh. I mean, of course, this damnable reference to Franco as "Spain's R. E. Lee." [TIME, May 2] . . .

You may expect Southern colonels from Harpers Ferry to Eagle Pass to cancel their subscriptions. And if you do it again, I'll have to begin praying over you myself.

VIRGINIUS DABNEY

Editor

Times-Dispatch Richmond, Va,

Sirs:

As a son of a Confederate veteran, who, for four long years, followed "Marse Robert," I protest. . . .

WILLIAM...

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