General Sherman's Girlfriend (Draft)

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

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