CHARLES L. TODD
R. D. 4, Box 514, Harding Road
Clinton, New York 13323

May 19, 1993
(Tel: 315-853-8632)

Ms. Cathy Haney
The Clay County Museum
2127 Seventh Street
Clay Center, Kansas 67432

Dear Ms. Haney,

I was delighted to get your call, and will do my best to help you in what sounds like an exciting project. My problem right now is that we are selling our house and moving to Florida next November. At the moment, our basement is stacked with some fifty years of old files, books, art, etc., and it will take me a week or two to dig out material on that great event in Morganville so many years ago. As I recall it, Elmore McKee told much of the story in his book, but I probably do have more to add when and if I can find it. I will do my best! At the age of 81, I am never quite sure where every thing was put away.

Meanwhile, I shall never forget Velma Carson and Morganville, or my day in little Feves in France. A reporter from Metz came there to cover the big doings, and after my speech in lousy French, he asked me, �Please Sir, when I write your name as T-H-O-T-T-E instead of Todd.� I asked him why, and he said, �When les Boches invaded us, they were called �Der Tod Division' - and spelled that way, it means 'Death� around here.� So I became Mr. Thotte. Though I may have had too much of their strong Mirabelle, or plum brandy, it was all great fun. And so was my day or two in Morganville.

I shall get back to you as soon as possible. Meanwhile, the best of luck.

Cordially,

(Signature)

Charles L. Todd


P.S. The enclosed little book will tell you more about my nefarious past - though it doesn't include any of my �Operation Democracy� days, or my attempts to privatize American foreign policy with the People-to-People movement.