To: List subscribers, Subject: Metta Hanna documents. I have received forty or fifty letters since my post about the documents of Metta Hanna. None connected directly to Metta, but from concerned and helpful people from all over the country. Some wrote to just say thank you for me trying to find a home for these items, and many with constructive ideas and suggestions. Tonight my wife and I went down the mountain for dinner. When we returned home I had about fifteen letters in my in box, in reference to the Metta Hanna documents. Most were heart warming but one message hit me wrong. I may be getting touchy with old age. Here is the letter I took offence to. (copied and pasted) Hi! I would love to have these! I will pay for postage and a reasonable cost. I have been researching Crawford Co., IN for years, and have a connection to the Johnsons! Please let me know! To make money from the Metta Hanna items was not the object of my post. These are not the kind of treasures to be bartered or sold. My only intentions, when I made the post, was to find a close family descendent of Metta Hanna's. Hopefully one involved in genealogy, and make them a gift of these items. In my estimation the above letter doesn't prove diddly squat to me. It sounds more like an unconcerned collector of antique documents, rather than a grateful excited relative of Metta's. The person that gets these items will have to do a little better at proving there relationship to Metta than the letter indicates. Besides, I took offence to the offer of money for something I wished to give to a deserving person. The treasure is not really mine to sell and it will not be sold. It is the property of Metta Hanna and if I can not find any one I feel should have it, it will be given to an entity that will make it available to all to view and benefit from. If I am wrong I'm sorry, but that is the way it's going to be! It is not my intentions to hurt any ones feelings by this writing, flaming the person that made the offer nor to start a fire in anyone's hip pocket. I'm an old man and set in my ways. Since the ball game is in my back yard, I'll make all the rules. One thing more, in my original post I stated the High School diploma was from Johnsonville High. It is rolled extremely tight and every time I unrolled it to read, it curled back up. Actually it is Jasonville High. Thanks to those of you that caught my error. Sincerely and best wished, Del Del Black In the beautiful Tehachapi Mountains of California