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Sent to;	North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama ‚ Louisiana ‚ Texas ‚ Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, î~ississippi ‚ Oklahoma.



April 14, 193‘?





Mr. i~dwi~n Bjorkman
State T)irector, Federal Writers‘ Project
Wo:ks Progress Administration
City Hall, Fifth Floor
Asheville, North Carolina

Dear ~:r. Bjorkrnan:

	We have received more stories of ex—slaves and are gratified by the quality and interest of the narratives. Some of these stories have been accompanied by photographs of the subjects. We would like to bave portraits wherever they can be secured ‚ but we urge your photographers to make the studies as simple, natural, and “unposed“ as poe— sible. Let the backgröund, cabin or whatnot, be the nonnal setting —— in short, just the picture a visitor would ex— pect to find by “dropping in“ on one of these old-timers.

	Enclosed is a memorandum of ir. Loraax with suggestions for simplifying the spelling of certain recurring dialect words. This does not mean that the interviews should be en— tirely in “straight English“ -— simply, that we want them to be more readable to those uninitiated in the broadest Negro speech.
		Very truly yours,
		George Cronyn
		4~ssociate Director
	.	Federal Writers‘ Project
GWC ronyn :I~B

This paragraph was added to the letter to Arkansas.

~:r. Lomax is very eager to get such records as you mention:
Court Records of Sale, Transfer,~ and Freein~~ of Slaves, as well as prices paid.