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John S Lewis, Publisher J. L. McGoldrick, Bus, Mgr L. A. Nixon, Editor John E Stewart, Adv. Mgr. Air Transportation The Weekly Trade Journal of Commercial Aviation Subscription 1265 Broadway, New York, N.Y. One Year, $5.00 Telephone: Longacre 2329 Two Months, $1.00 Single Copy, 20 cents May 25, 1929 Mrs. K.[strikethrough] Hattie Meyers Junkin 4123 Paskard Road Toledo, Ohio My dear Mrs. Junkin: Mine is a very irritating task. It was wished upon me and the only reason I accepted was, perhaps, to become acquainted with one who has grown up with the aviation industry and it knows better than most of the rest of us. The bare facts are these: As I understand, you wrote Mr. Nixon, explaining that you held a veritable treasure of pictures taken before, and after, 1914; and wondering whether he would care to make use of them. His letter was turned over to Mr. Sandt, who I believe, wrote you to send them in. There then ensued corres- pondence between you and Mr. Sandt. Unfortunately, I have been able to find only two or so letters in this correspondence. These, being unconnected to the unitiate, have harassed my mind and piqued my curiosity. The whole thing has now been thrown on my shoulders, I being the Do You Remember Editor. I don't know why I wasn't given the pleasure of the first correspondence with you. At any rate, before I can do much I must learn more regarding the case. I now have two very interesting albums of aviation pictures, a very well written article on "The Spirit of Commercial Aviation As Seen By a Women," and what I take to be an editorial on "Aviation" signed by Elwood J. Junkin. The two albums are very carefully reposing in the largest and most secret drawer of my desk. The article signed by yourself is neatly folded and clipped in my MS Received file, as is the editorial on Aviation. Now then, what to do? My first step is to select those pictures which I think would go best in the Do You Remember department. This is a fairly easy job, because the pictures, as a whole, are interesting and useable. But the composition of captions for them is most difficult. Now if I had a little background of what, in toto, they are all about, the job would be a great deal easier. Won't you please overlook all the editorial red-tape your pictures and correspondence have gone through and give me a background so that I could write captions worthy of the pictures? I'll appreciate it more than I can tell.