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    "ocrText": "COPY\nHerrin, Mr. M. H.\nOctober 7, 1954\nMr. M. H. Herrin\n3912 Thirteenth Street, South\nArlington, Virginia\nDear Mr. Herrin:\nIn the absence of the Vice President from\nWashington on the campaign trip, I wish to acknowledge your\nletter of September 30.\nI know that he will be sorry to learn of the\npassing of Mr. Cyrus L. Shannon and that he will appreciate\nyour thoughtfulness in sending this information on to him.\nYou may be sure that the Vice President\nwill be glad to see you when his schedule permits, and that\nhe would want me to send his best wishes to you and Mrs. Herrin.\nSincerely yours,\nPriscilla Joy Everts\nStaff of the Vice President\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nDC.V\n3912 Thirteenth St., South,\nArlington, Virginia,\nSeptember 30, 1954.\nHon. Richard M. Nixon\n4801 Tilden Street, N. W.,\nWashington, D. C.\nDear Mr. Nixon:\nSince I am a resident of this area, a very close friend of mine,\nMr. C. Rowland Shannon of Bradenton, Florida, whom I have known since\nchildhood has suggested that I send you a line to inform you of the death\nquite recently of his father, whom he advises you knew quite well and whom\nyou usually addressed as \"Uncle Cyrus\". This is, of course, Mr. Cyrus L.\nShannon, who was born April 3, 1864, in Jennings County, Indiana, and who\nwas raised from the age of about ten years by the paents of Allie Mill-\nhouse. I think they lived in Southern Indiana at the time, very likely in\nNorth Vernon.\nRowland also advises me that your parents visited him and his wife\nin Bradenton, Florida, in about 1948 or 1949, when they were living in\nWhittier, California.\nI have some very wonderful memories of Mr. Shannon, Senior, for I\nwas raised and went to school with Rowland in Bradenton, Florida, (although\na native of Moss Point, Miss. ) and when Rowland and I were just kids we were\nrather inseparable and I usually made his home headquarters on weekends for\nball games and the usual activities of youngsters prior to and during their\n'teens. Mr. Shannon, Senior, was a very courageous gentleman, and a repre-\nsentative type of good American whom all of us admire, and only a few months\nago I saw him for the last time when I visited Rowland in Bradenton.\nI have passed this news on to you because of the relationship you\nhad with Mr. Shannon and Rowland has suggested that I do so.\nMrs. Herrin and I live at the above address, I am an artist in addition\nto other activities, and have a studio in our home. The enclosure was the\nresult of an interview on my last visit to Bradenton.\nWe would be very much pleased if you and your family could come and\nvisit us some week end, Saturday or Sunday evening, when the pressure of\npublic life is not too heavy, or any date which is convenient to you. Fail-\ning this, we would like to make your acquaintance and Rowland has said that\nif I see you he wants to be sure that he can call on you when next he visits\nWashington.\nCordially and sincerely yours,\nM.Hotorin\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nprodenton Herald, Sunday, August 15, 1954\nFormer Resident, Now Famous\nAuthor-Painter, Visits Here\nBy MRS. ROBERT HOFFMAN\nM. H. Herrin, a former Manatee\ncounty resident, who has become\na well known artist as well as\nauthor, has been spending his\nvacation at Bradenton Beach at\nthe Beachcomber apartments.\nHis book, \"Creole Aristocracy\"\nis a historical work that was pub-\nlished in 1952 by the Exposition\nPress. It is a history of the\nfounders of New Orleans and\nmost particularly of the Vieux\nCarre section. He made five trips\nto New Orleans during the time\nhe was writing the book as well\nas doing research work at Tulane\nUniversity and the University of\nLouisiana. After its publication\nhe was awarded a life member-\nship in the International Mark\nTwain Society. This society was\nformed to prolong and continue\nthe interest in Twain's works as\nwell as to give notice and recog-\nnition to contemporary authors.\nBest Known As Artist\nAs successful as his writing has\nM. H. HERRIN\nbeen however, Mr. Herrin is best\nknown as an artist. After leaving\nTaft, Coolidge and Franklin D.\nManatee County in 1920 he at-\nRoosevelt, Thomas A. Edison, and\ntended Pratt Institute of Fine and\nthe Duke and Duchess of Windsor.\nApplied Arts in Brooklyn and\nDuring the last war he painted\ncompleted the four year course in\na portrait of the late King George\na year and a half.\nof England for the British War\nHe is most famous for his por-\nRelief Society of New York. This\ntraits, landscapes, and seascapes.\npicture was put on exhibition by\nHis method of portraiture is\nthe society and then sold by them\nunique. An avid camera fan and\nwith the proceeds going to British\na photographer of some distinc-\nWar Relief. In the present world\ntion, he takes perhaps a dozen\nsituation it is interesting to note\nphotographs of his subject. By\nthat this picture was purchased\nuse of these photographs he is\nby an Egyptian.\nable to cut to a minimum tire-\nMr. Herrin is listed in \"Who's\nsome sittings. In addition, it is\nWho in America,\" \"Who's Who\nalso possible for the subject or\nin the South and Southwest,\"\nhis family to select from the\n\"Who's Who in American Art,\"\nphotographs some fleeting expres-\nand \"The Official Directory of\nsion that the camera has caught,\nAmerican Illustrators and Adver-\nwhich might otherwise be difficult\ntising Artists.\" His work is on\nto reproduce in a portrait.\ndisplay at Rockefeller Center in\nAmong famous persons he has\npainted are former U. S. Senator\nNew York and numerous private\ncollections in many parts of the\nErnest McFarland, now running\nnation.\nfor Governor of Arizona; ex-\nComptroller General of the\nMr. Herrin, who was educated\nUnited States Lindsay C. Warren,\nin Manatee County, moved here\nof North Carolina; and ex-\nas a child from Mississippi with\nAssistant Comptroller of the\nhis parents, Mr. and Mrs. James\nUnited States, Frank L. Yates\nA. Herrin. His portrait of \"Miss\nof West Virginia.\nSue,\" (the late Mrs. Sue Stuart),\nMr. Herrin has a unique col-\none of his former teachers, is still\nlection of over 300 portrait\nhanging at Ballard Elementary\nsketches which he has made over\nSchool. His two brothers, M. K.\na period of years. These sketches\nHerrin and James E. Herrin, are\nwere made from photographs and\nstill living in Bradenton.\nportraits and when finished were\nsent by mail to the persons\nsketched with a request for their\nsignature. Each sketch in his col-\nlection bears the signature of the\nsubject and the collection includes\nDavid Lloyd George, Rudyard\nKipling, H. G. Wells, Presidents\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nUNITED\nSTATES\nM.H. Herrin\nPUSTAU\n3912 Thirteenth Street, South,\nSHINGTON\nSAVETWEE\nArlington, Virginia.\nII - AM =\n8:00\nBUY U.S. BeNDS\nMISSA\nPAYROLL SAVINGS 3 CENTS 3\nthe\nHONORABLE RICHARD M. NIXON\n4801 Tilden Street, N. W.,\nPERSONAL.\nWASHINGTON, D.C.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum"
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