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Aug. 30th 1939 Riverton, Ky.

Jack Conroy, Esq., The New Anvil, Chicago, Ill.

Dear Jack Conroy:

   If you can lift a paragraph or two from this story without injury to the story, you have my permission to do so.   It is entirely too long.  It is a story but few magazines would dare publish and several writers would not care to write it.
    You are a Southerner, so am I.  We know that in the South, White men have had woods colts by Colored women; Whereas, on the other side, if a black man assaults a white woman - you know what happens.  it is my belief that the white should remain white and the black remain black.  If I were a Negro, I wouldn't want a drop of white blood in me.  We (the Whites) have certainly been unfair to the Negro women don't you think?
    My story is based on facts.  You can believe it or not - but it is.  The women lived in the rock cliff as I wrote in the story.  I didn't know whether to make a story or a short novelette