P. O. Box 271,
Leesville, Louisiana,
October 9, 1944.

Mr. A. H. Moore,
8902 Baring Cross Street,
Los Angeles (44), California.

Dear Comrade:

I have your undated circular letter, mailed October 3rd, and
bearing the names of George Cantrell, Walter Millsap, Roy McDonald,
Bernie Stevens, Sidney L. Young and yourself.

I agree heartily with the three statements that your group is
agreed on. I agree heartily, too, that a history of the Llano
movement should be written, and that no later time can be as good
as now. For several years I have planned to write such a history,
and I have made a start on it, but for a long time have not added
a word. The reason is that I work in the office of the Clerk of
Court and Recorder here, that I live about a mile and a quarter
from the office and walk to and from for the exercise, that I live
in a little cabin of my own, recently built, and get my own meals
to keep down expenses and put by something against the time of
losing the job when the war ends, possibly earlier, and that at 68
I don't have what it takes to drive myself pretty hard all day and
then drive myself evenings otherwise than in the necessary house-
keeping.

The Receiver of the Llano del Rio Company of Nevada, Mr. C. D. Ferguson, has in his custody a large part of the files of the Colony office, and among other things the minute book of the Board of Directors. There are in the office in which I work large numbers of papers and documents relating to the Colony, and in the files of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, in New Orleans, there are still others. At Tulane University is a copy of a thesis that Mr. Frederick Hanover wrote some seven or eight years ago, in which he summarized his findings resulting from a study of the Colony that he made to get a degree from the University. I intend to look through the papers that are in Leesville, also to go to New Orleans and look over the papers in the Supreme Court files and Mr. Hanover's thesis, for the purpose of summarizing such of them as seem pertinent.

The original incorporation papers of the Llano del Rio Company
are doubtless in the files of the Secretary of State or Corporation
Commissioner of California, and a certified copy of each on file and
of record in the County Clerk's office in Los Angeles. The Secretary
of State's office in Carson City, Nevada, has later papers or
records of them. Summaries of some of them will be pertinent.

The history of Llano that I have had in mind would be so
largely my own, and would be written from a viewpoint and for a
reason so peculiarly my own, that it might be hard to integrate it