Robert Coles
... that Massachusetts Bay settler Robert Coles was sentenced to wear a red letter "D" for drunkenness, which some scholars have argued later inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter?
... that <a href="./Massachusetts_Bay_Colony" id="mwAec" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Massachusetts Bay Colony">Massachusetts Bay</a> settler <b id="mwAeg"><a href="./Robert_Coles_(settler)" id="mwAek" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Robert Coles (settler)">Robert Coles</a></b> was sentenced to wear a red letter "D" for drunkenness, which some scholars have argued later inspired <a href="./Nathaniel_Hawthorne" id="mwAeo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nathaniel Hawthorne">Nathaniel Hawthorne</a>'s 1850 novel <i id="mwAes"><a href="./The_Scarlet_Letter" id="mwAew" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The Scarlet Letter">The Scarlet Letter</a></i><span about="#mwt34" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"-?","href":"./Template:-%3F"},"params":{},"i":0}}]}' id="mwAe0" style="padding-left:0.15em;" typeof="mw:Transclusion"><span typeof="mw:Entity">?</span></span>