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

July 12, 1993

Dear Cathy,

I began these attached notes to you several days ago. Meanwhile, I have dipped into those bloody files of mine, and began pulling out random items which might fit in with your Morganville story. The enclosed pieces are a drop in the bucket out of four large cartons, and I can add more if you aren't totally bewildered by now. Apparently when I got out of the People-to-People business thirty years ago, I intended to write a book, but got busy with other things, and stored the stuff away in the Hamilton College library.

The files deal with many other aspects of �Do-it-Yourself-Diplomany� besides town affiliations - and, by the way, I can understand your confusion over all the names given to those programs... �Operation Democracy,� �Town Adoption,� �Sister Cities,� �Hands Across the Sea,� etc. The latter seems to be used most often today. It seems to keep going despite the ending of the Cold War. Someday, even Baghdad might be �adopted.�

If your project gets going, and you want more from those Grass Roots, I'll be glad to share with you; and wish you luck. I would, however, like some of these items back - especially the Meyer Berger story in the Times Magazine. You may, of course, photocopy anything you find useful. I have written a blue-pencil �RETURN� on some of them - any time next month.

As I mentioned in an attached earlier letter, I am planning to send the files out to the Un. of Texas, where some of their PhD candidates or international affairs people might want to do a job on them. However, since the home, briefly of the �People-to-People Foundation� under Milton Eisenhower, perhaps one of its Universities might be interested. Any thoughts on that? After all, little Morganville and big Wichita helped start the ball rolling.

Sorry about the condition of some of this material. Thirty years, and mold, takes its toll.

Cheers!

(signature) �Lafe�

Charles L. Todd