OPERATING THE BAKER. DALLAS. 700 ROOMS, 700 BATHS THE TEXAS. FORT WORTH. 600 ROOMS, 600 BATHS THE GUNTER. SAN ANTONIO. SSO ROOMS, 530 BATHS THE BAKER, MINERAL WELLS, 450 ROOMS, 430 BATHS THE GOODHUE. PORT ARTHUR, 200 ROOMS, 200 BATHS THE STEPHEN F. AUSTIN. AUSTIN, 250 ROOMS, 230 BATHS lUcitlen fron ®I|C CSlmter San Antonio, Texas 501 Gunter: I'arch 10, 19 52 ?.5y dear Mrs . Browne: Our talk last night and your suggest]' on about a carefully prepared book for the Alamo directs my mind into a channel that, I believe, should enable you to have the best historical book for tourists of any city from Florida to California. Talking things over, like last night, always prompts better thinking. A little book of pictures, diagrams and maps can be prepared, with the historical reading coupled with each picture, so that any tourist, student or casual reader can be led to each old scene and get the history story with each place. This has been my method with the Old Spanish Trail publications and it has been popular. I have photographs, etchings, plates, and associates, to assure such a publication. It would probably require two months or more to whip it all together because care should be exercised to state carefully that which is known history and that which is only legend.....and also to reduce everything to brief, simple statement; writing briefly and clearly is hard. No city in these Spanish Borderlands (and this includes all California) has such a wealth of material as San Antonio. A book of 50 or more old historical illustrations is possible here; it would be difficult to get together 10 such illustrations in any other city. Saint Augustine and New Orleans might reach 10 such pictures. Once the illustrations and the historical data are carefully assembled the Alamo association would have a book valuable for all time. Then your suggestion that the Alamo have its own postcards becomes possible and could be worked oibt. With nothing sold at the Alamo except your approved publications, the intelligence, dignity and integrity of you Alamo leaders would be established in a way for you to be proud of. Profits from these sales would continue steadily thru the years. Merchants, missions, tourist offices and others in San Antonio should be glad to handle an official and attractive publication; if so, both your service to San Antonio and your Alamo income wouId be enhanced. I have never suggested anything like this, although frequently in mind.