For years, I have known you intimately, through your poems. The people of the "Great West" would like to see you—as they cannot come to you, could we not persuade you to come to them?
Am known extensively over our State—as a lecturer before "Teachers Associations," and can arrange for you to give ten readings of your poems, in ten of our largest cities (you, East, would call them towns) at $50 for night—total $500.00—your expenses need not be more than $100, to and from your home here—netting you $400 for a fortnights work. You will confer the greatest favor on your many Western friends by accepting. If the Winter be too severe; could you come in the Spring—say, May? Trusting to hear favorably from you—I am—
Sincerely yours Marion ThrasherWill furnish you the highest references.
loc_vm.00430_large.jpg loc_vm.00431_large.jpg Proposal for Western Course of Readings Dec. '85 | Marion Thrasher loc_vm.00432_large.jpgCorrespondent:
As the letterhead indicates,
Marion Thrasher was superintendent of Edgar Public Schools in Edgar, a small
town in south central Nebraska.