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in pencil in top margin Sherman, V. L.

V. L. Sherman Rt. 2 - Box 426, H ---ville, N.C. Sept. 19, 1958

Dear Jack:

      The retracting cord on the typewriter broke, and I have been too lazy to fix it.
   The editorial in today's Hendersonville "Times -News" will interest you I think.  The editor, "Jimmie" Fain, son of the old editor, who was such a good friend before his death last year, has a liking for Negroes.  Someday I'll write about him to you.  The old man's photograph stands on the chest, here.
   The card is a sketch of mine, made for a "country fair" sale at the church.  With other wares for sale, especially bee-hive crossed out:  bans  buns, the church made off pretty well.  Edneyville is a community about 10 miles from here, about half way to Bat Cave at the