Personal Diary of Mrs. Dan Moody Page: 2

                                
TEXAS' LEADING NEWSPAPER
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Office of the Publisher
February 11, 1965.
Mrs. Dan Moody,
2302 Woodlawn,
Sunset Hill,
Austin 3, Texas.
Dear Mildred:
It may surprise you to know that this morning
when I came to the office and found your manuscript about
living in the governor's mansion on $333. 33 a month,
I pushed everything aside and read the diary through
from "kiver to kiver, " word for word.
It's definitely not destined for publication in its
present form in any Texas newspaper.
For one thing, it's entirely too personal in nature,
but I guess that's what every diary is like. The greater portion
of it reads like a love story between you and Dan, and a lot of
the people that you mention in the diary are not sufficiently
identified.
There are portions of the diary which verge on
libel, although I doubt very seriously whether you could libel
Farmer Jim Ferguson and his wife at this time, but you never
can tell. I think the Fergusons still have two daughters alive,
and they might sue you for libel because of parts of your diary.
Then, too, you take some pretty dirty digs against
Amon Carter--"Rule or Ruin" Carter--in which I think you are
entirely justified, but which I doubt whether Amon, Jr. or other
members of the Carter family would appreciate.
You evidently were fond of Ross Sterling and his
wife, but you do make him out a kind of simple-minded peasant
in your diary. In this you were eminently correct, I might add,

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