Sales Technologies Group

May 16, 1992

Dr. Edward Cashin

Augusta College

2500 Walton Way

Augusta, GA 30910

Dear Uncle Edward,

Enclosed are the sketches I have developed for each of the 11 chapters. Some are closer to being finished than others, but I think each will give you an idea of what I can do. I edited some of the text with thick black pen. Mostly adding commas to build in pauses in longer sentences or to separate compound sentences.

The finished drawings will be cleaner and will incorporate some screened shading for uniforms, shadows, etc. This screening is done by cutting out the shapes on a light board– much like tracing, only using a knife. Adds a lot to the drawing.

If any are objectionable, or if you have a better idea, feel free to edit and/or delete at will. After all, it’s your book!

I have also enclosed a sample of what can be done with a Macintosh and a laser printer. The resolution of this typesetting is 300 dots per inch. This can be used for final product for free, or once complete, the final version can be printed with a service bureau for a few dollars per page on a 1,200 dot per inch Linotron.

If you can provide me with the final copy on diskette, I can then drop the text into PageMaker on the Macintosh, converting quoted titles to italics, quotes to “curly” quotes (note how the beginning quote is different than the end), etc. Since most of the work is actually keying the text, you would be saving the labor cost of having it retyped.

The sketches are my originals which I will need to work from if you want me to proceed.

And let me apologize here at the end for the delay. In the past 4 weeks I have closed on my town house, bought a new house, gotten a new position in the company, and been on an extended business trip in Arizona. Somewhere in all that, the time just flew by.

Let me know what you think.

Jeb Cashin

Enclosure

    Sketches

    Manuscripts

    Sample Laser Printing

[see also: pays]

A gathering together of old, dear friends

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Together they gathered, on hearing the news,

sharing a sniffle, a tear, some boohoos.

The Lorax was there, and Horton, with Who,

the Cat in the Hat and Thing One and Thing Two.

The Grinch? He attended. And others we know.

Their faces were long, there spirits were low.

The first speaker was Thidwick, the Big-Hearted Moose.

His heart it was grieving, for his friend Dr. Seuss.

“Oh the places he took us, the places we’ve been,

the worlds he created with strokes of his pen.

“The whimsy and fun and sweet little ditties,

that taught love of reading to millions of kiddies…”

“He wouldn’t be happy to hear you like that,”

reminded a smiling Cat in the Hat.

“Remember our friends, those millions who read us?

We’re silly to think that they will forget us.

“Those girls are now women! Those boys are now men!

And so the old cycle starts over again.

“The children who played with the toys, dolls and puppies,

have grown into creatures called Buppies and Yuppies.”

“One day, in their lap, sits a bambino, papoose.

On that day they will need us, the creatures of Seuss.”

“You’re quite right, of course,” said Horton’s Who.

“We have quite a lot of work yet to do.”

And slowly, so slowly, their frowns turned to smiles,

spreading so wide, miles upon miles.

-The Atlanta Constitution Editorial Page

* * *

“You’ll be on your way up!

You’ll be seeing great sights!

You’ll join the high fliers who soar to great heights!”

(from “Oh, The Places You’ll Go”. Seuss, 1990)

* * *

Theodor Seuss Geisel

March 2, 1904 – Sept. 24, 1991

Got the cartoon inspired

by the guy who plays

guitar at the entrance

to Winn Dixie published

in this month’s

Fishwrap. [AMUG

Newsletter.]

I’m married to a woman whose hero is Cher. (Mermaids.)

Parenthood is…

… admiring your 3-year-old’s whirlwind of a scribble as he explains to you that it is a tomato. Lord knows, you just don’t see it, but you tell him it’s a nice tomato. But he is disappointed, and tries to explain, as if from a foreign land and in a foreign tongue, that it’s a TOMATO. Suddenly, in a moment of miraculous inspiration, a voice in your head reveals the truth. “OH!” you exclaim. “A tornado!”

The child is delighted. As you look again at the whirlwind of a scribble, you realize out loud, “That’s a fine tornado!”

The face of 3-year-old pride is priceless.

Danny and I spent the day together while Kathy worked and Nicole was spending the weekend with Lauren and her grandmother.

While putting the vacuum away after cleaning up the blueberries he spilled on the carpet, Danny found two pieces of chalk in the closet. He drew some teenage ninja turtles in a ghost.

He told Kathy that when he becomes a cub scout that he is going to be a Cubcake just like Nicole is a Brownie.

VENUS

by Nicole Cashin

March 13, 1991

I live on the planet Venus.

I left Earth becuse it was trashy.

One day I woke up on Venus the planet had bubble trees. I saw an Ellian at a beach. She had an upside down nose, it had six mouths, it had one ear. She was my friend. Her name was Wierd-Mouth. I put my face inside a bubble when it poped I could fly. I felt pretty good. The ocean was full of candy. There are lots of milkshake flowers. I lived in a ginger bread house you could eat. I had the best time I’ve ever had.

The sand was real colorful. The trees had one-hundred dollar bills. I was very rich. I went to mcdonalds for ice-cream. Then we went to the park. It was real hot so we went to the beach. I ate lot’s of candy it was amazing I didn’t get sick. I had lot’s of friends. I liked it.

Then I went home and played in my pool. The pool had lot’s of cakes. Then I picked Milk Shakes. I picked strawbarry, choclate, banana. They were good. I’m never going to earth again.

The End

[Nicole writes…]

I went on spring break I went to the movie theater I saw the never ending story was good it’s about a boy who goes in a story book and saves the book.