ALS signed “Patsy & all,” seven pages, 6 x 9, May 3, 1961. Letter to friend Marie Flynt, in part [grammar and spelling retained]: "Well after getting that letter the other day I don't what to write, but I'm sure gonna get things stright with you gal, cause you are sure thinking all wrong. You know Ree that you don't need to get me gifts or jobs to keep my friendship and you didn't say or do anything to make me mad or hurt me. So please, let me explain why I haven't had a chance to write and don't you ever think for one minute that you are a friend for a purpose. You are and have been the dearest friend a girl could ask for. I love you like you were my own sister and I'm ashamed because I haven't been able to write you. Before the trip (after you called) I wrote & left it for Charlie to mail, and he forgot it…I have this infection in my insides and have had the greatest of pain with it and have been trying to get the house deal straightened out…I had to go away to work T. V. and radio and sit in on a Pet Milk converence (3 days of it after talking to you before I left & then when I left on Thurs the 19th at 6:30 p.m. I rode all nite to Winston Salem N. C. till 7 a.m. Fri. Couldn't sleep after getting there stayed up & did the shows Fri nite there and after the show got on Farons bus & rode all night till 12 the next (Sat.) day to Jacksonville Florida…did the show Sat nite there (4 hour show) then got a plane for Kansas City at 1 a.m…and did 3 shows there before I ever got to a bed to rest. Then I slept the next 2 days and called home to Charlie & got cussed & then I stayed drunk & just flat lived it up the rest of the tour & had a ball because Leon McCauly's Western band was playing behind me. Wow! What a band. On top of everything else I was ready to get a divorce I'm tired of being left one night a week all night long & never knowing were he was. And tired of everything in all. Like the day I went to the hospital at 9 a.m. Sun morn, he had been home 2 1/2 hrs. from being out all night drunk and my neighbor had to take me to the hospital. I'm sick of this shit…Ree, believe me I didn't forget you and you should know me well enough to know that a hit record don't make my friendship any different with any one. And I know that all your words, prayers and thoughtfulness are sincere and I know I have a true friend in you…Now! Some good news. My record is #5 in C & W and is 70 some in pop & still climbing. I've got a chance to be the star singer on the Don McNeill Breakfast Club Radio Network Show regularly (waiting to hear from them) and the Opry is going on T. V. Network coast to coast for Pet milk & maybe Johnson Wax every other week I think and Pet Milk & Old Divine (the boss at W. S. M.) asked for me to be on the first showing." In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, addressed in Cline’s own hand. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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