Letter from James Foster, a 68-year-old prisoner in Wetumpka, Alabama, to Governor W. D. Jelks.
In the letter Foster asks the governor to grant him parole: "If you and the Board will parole me Governor I swear by all the true Gods that ever existed that I will ever reverence the Alabama Board of Pardons, and hold perpetually as my Trinity, the True God, Governor Jilks [sic], and Ethics.&q...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/3468 |
| Summary: | In the letter Foster asks the governor to grant him parole: "If you and the Board will parole me Governor I swear by all the true Gods that ever existed that I will ever reverence the Alabama Board of Pardons, and hold perpetually as my Trinity, the True God, Governor Jilks [sic], and Ethics." He explains that he plans to work as a photographer, and he encloses some samples of his work. He also mentions that he had also written the previous governor about the matter but did not receive a response before W. J. Samford's death; that letter was printed in The Montgomery Journal on May 17, 1901. Both the photographs and the second letter are also available online: https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/photo/id/7459 and https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/voices/id/2920 |
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