[Purported letter from a NYC Jew, J. W. Pealer, Jr. to an anti-Semitic Southerner named Forest Sammons]

n.p. n.p., [195-?]. A strange piece of anti-Semitic propaganda in the form of a purported letter from a NYC Jew named J. W. Pealer, Jr. to Forest Sammons (1895-1954) of Huntington, WV. The letter begins by addressing Sammons as a “Heine Bastard” and follows from there insulting Sammons and Southerners in a profanity-laced tirade. It concludes with a curse: “In a moment, DEATH PRAYERS, FROM THE MYSTIC CABALA will be said against you, your wife, and damn stinken brat BASTARDS of children…To hell, with you, you filthy son of a bitch, THE JEWS have destroyed over 150 races, and nations who abused them. So the blackest of misfortune to you and yours, you dirty filthy Goy bastard.”

Following the letter is an unsigned reply that swears to the veracity of the letter and the consequences of the Jewish curse: “This tender token of Talmudic ‘tolerance’ and Pharisaic ‘brotherhood’, sent to a wealthy contractor, bank director, and coal mine operator [Sammons], who died a violent death, is absolutely authenic [sic] being typed from the pencil-printed original, with original emphasis and errors.” It goes on to warn, “We befuddled Gentiles had better soon wise up to this fratricidal strife which the Pharisaic Conspirators are stirring up for the sole purpose of enslaving and decimating the goyim of both and South and the rest of our nation.”

Sammons was a minor figure in the anti-Semitic far right who led the one-man West Virginia Anti-Communist League from his home in Huntington, WV. He stamped all of his correspondence, “Stop the Jew!” and was known for distributing copies of the spurious Benjamin Franklin quote concerning the Jews. As the letter intimates, Sammons was a wealthy contractor, and although he died in 1954 at age 59, there is no evidence that he met a “violent death.” See Roy, pgs. 76-78.

A 14” x 8 ½” sheet mimeographed from typescript. Folded once, else a Fine copy. One copy in OCLC at Michigan State, although with an incorrect publication date of 1952 (Sammons didn’t die until 1954). Item #10053

Price: $150.00