Melvin Purvis Signed Request for Payment

Melvin Purvis
Florence, SC, February 8, 1951
Melvin Purvis Signed Request for Payment
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Melvin Purvis (1903-1960). 1p measuring 8.5" x 11", Florence, South Carolina, dated February 8, 1951. On WOLS Florence Broadcasting Co. Inc. letterhead and signed "Melvin Purvis" as President and General Manager. Addressed to Mr. L.L. Plummer of Sears Roebuck & Co., requesting a payment of $87.29. The letter has flattened folds and light wear to the corners. Boldly signed.

Plummer has responded to the letter with a note written in pencil: "Mr. Pervis [sic], I wrote and told you just as soon as...I started to make a little money I would send you something on out. And I will do exactly that. I have had one tough 90 of it this winter..."

Melvin Horace Purvis II was an FBI agent who was instrumental in capturing bank robbers John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd in 1934. In his later military career, he was directly involved with General George Patton, Hermann Göring, and the Nuremberg Trials. In 1938 Purvis moved to Florence County, South Carolina, where he got married and had three sons. In 1941, he became a partner in the ownership of local radio station WOLS. Purvis would die 9 years after this letter was written, at the age of 56.

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8.5" x 11"