Letter from Rosa Pearle to Benjamin F. Barnes
Elizabeth Jane Dugan (under the pseudonym “Rosa Pearle”), editor of Rosa Pearle’s Paper in Sedalia, Missouri, writes to Benjamin F. Barnes, providing extensive detail about Laura A. Hull Morris, the woman at the center of the Mrs. Morris incident. Dugan discusses Morris’s immoral and adulterous behavior, drunkenness, and “loud” manner. She supports President Roosevelt and criticizes Senator Benjamin R. Tillman for his derogatory statements concerning the president and the situation.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-01-18