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Boach Haven
Wen Jeroey Juno 12,192B
Mr.Harral Ayres Managing Director OST.
Gunter Hotel San Antonio,Texas
My doarMr.Ayres,
Your letter of June 5th. has been forwarded to mo ,and the addcess given above is my summer address.
Tho old history series in the Record ,Tias rather misleading. It is difficult for mo to know what to do.When people ask® for information I feel I should give it to them, and I have given reporters data of various historical events. When I returned home last Fall after two weeks research in a stop -over in Washington , Miss Lucile Pyles a Record reporter came to see me and asked for interesting details of history newly found ana about the old buildings etc. I gave her some items not before published ip from my Washington notes,also referred her to the booklets I had written,and certain books and maps in our Library suggesting she study up on each subject and use the source material. She wrote some very nice papers and put one paper in that I had never been able to get in print before,the true history of the so-called Lon Toledo house that we have documentary evidence of its being built after IfcQ^.i think as a result of this Mr.Hewitt sold the house to the Catholic Sisters and it has been closed .The claim had been invented for it by a nan named Whitney that it was built in 1516 for the Indian bride of one of the men with Ponce ae Loon ,and you can see how impossible the story was. Miss Pyles was sick and went away and in the Historical Series the one you refer to about the Fountain of Youth was published,in the same paper was an editorial on the same subject,both written to look as if they cane from the oame source and had the endorsement or the Historical Society ,and by me as historian.My name was not mentioned, after talking it over I decided it would make less effect if no notice was taken of it , than if ne entered into a controversy. Later when a letter was published from a "Woman who nad done much historical work forthe city" 1 insistedthat a notice should be put in that 1 had not written it,nor did I endorse putting the Menendez coffin at the Fountain or louth. 1 told Mr.Fraser ,when he first come to me that I considered the well to be only an ordinary dug coquina well,of surface water ,that I had driven many times aver the Williams place beforeLuella Day bought it,and I must believe the evidence of my own oyes.
You speak of your historical shield ,what is it? If liks a shield in heraldry I would suggest the head of a rasor-back bostr for tho crest,it has most remarkable hon the Spaniards under Do Sota drove those pigs all the way to the Missiasipi River .
Chapter xii of "Far Away and Long Ago" by W.H.Hudson describes these pigs in South America B Don Anastacio was devoted to pigs.kkk- They wero of the wild- pig breed, originally descended from the European andmil introduced by the early Spanish Bolonists but after two or three centuries of feral life a good deal changed in appearance from
their progenitors. ---was about a third lesB in size than the domestic animal,with
longer lege and more pointed face,and of a uniform deep rust-red in colour." I enclose an ad of the Cantino map also one of the Velasco Geography first printed 189^. The firet is 6 pogetas the second 7 and a half peseta .The best way is to buy the pesetas at a bank and send them for the map and book. This geography is largely of the regions along the Spanish trail and only a few cents ever a dollar.Written between 1571 and 157^,it is net illustrated. This book store Garcia Rice & Co. Madrid was recommended to me by Dr.James Robertson and I have bought a number of books fronrtthem .
Hoping this is what you want ,1 remain	'
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Yours Truly

Librarian Hist.Soo.of St.Augustine