499 West 24th Street
New York, N. Y.

May 30, 1950

The Mayor of Morganville
Morganville. Kansas

Dear sir,

We have heard of the work of Morganville in the American town affiliation program through Operation Democracy. We are two reporters who are going to Europe this September with plans to visit the European affiliated towns, including Feves in France.

After conferring with some of the towns with European affiliations and studying some of the work done by towns and counties in Kansas, we feel that we can understand the friendship that you have established with Feves. During our proposed visit to that town, we would like to present for you to the mayor a scroll or letter stating the continuing friendship that Morganville holds for the people of Feves.

Our purpose in visiting Feves and some thirty other towns in France, Italy and Germany is twofold: we would like to meet and know the people in these countries and we feel that to spend time in these affiliated towns would be the most satisfying way; and also we would like to publicize the contribution that American towns have made for international friendship.

We are writing to newspapers in Kansas to ask if they would be interested in stories about Feves. Our presentation of your message would be the main news angle of the stories. Pictures of the mayor accepting your message would be included.

Several national magazines, picture and women's, know about our idea and have expressed interest in accepting roundup articles about our visits. Editor and Publisher, the newspaper trade magazine, is printing a feature about our trip in an early summer issue.

If you would like some background information about us, we have included. a picture of ourselves. Both of us are graduating from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism this June. We are 22 and 24 years old. Audrey Poe, from Memphis, Tennessee, is a minister's daughter, worked for two years as a reporter on the Memphis Commercial Appeal and has had free lance articles accepted by the New York Herald Tribune. I live at Avon, Connecticut, am a daughter of a retired Marine Corps general and have had free lance articles published in Indiana newspapers and a national parents' magazine.

We are making this trip with the encouragement of the Columbia Journalism School and several editors on the New York Times and New York Herald Tribune.

If you will find our proposal to carry your message acceptable, we would like to receive further information from you during the summer about Morganville and your affiliation so that we may be able to make an accurate comparison between Morganville and Feves in our stories. If any representative for you has already made plans to visit Feves this summer, we are requesting your message for the fall and believe that our newspaper and magazine stories would not conflict with any previous plans you may have made.

Sir, may we know your answer by approximately June 19th so that we may be able to know whether or not to include your town in the Editor and Publisher article and so that we may begin to gather information for the magazines?

Very sincerely,

(signed) Sarah Cauldwell