Letter from:

                          Mrs. Robert Caffey Liddon
                              609 Fourth Street
                         Corinth, Mississippi 38834
                               April 22, 1993
  Dear Milton,

          I enjoyed your letter very much.  I never knew Roscoe Turner
  personally, but I remember an experience when I was in college.
  [1931-1935]  I went to Randolph-Macon at Lynchburg, VA.  He came there to
  speak.  He had his pet lion there with him.  After the speech I went up
  to introduce myself and speak to him, but for some reason he was not
  interested in speaking to me.  I taught Mary Emma Turner, his sister, and
  she and I are good friends.

          I well remember the day we were coming from Memphis.  I had never
  thought of bridges getting slick previously.  I was coming down the hill
  behind your folks.  I saw them turn completely around- never touched the
  side of bridge and ended up in direction of Corinth.  Needless to say I
  travelled very slowly then.  When I got on other side they were stopped.
  I asked if there was anything I could do.  Your Daddy said "No but they
  had to sit there a few minutes to calm down."  I was young then, but I
  had three elderly women in the car with me-- my mother, Bobby's mother,
  and Mrs. Maggie Young.  Not only did seeing them skid probably save us,
  but I have had a respect and fear of bridges when it is wet and turns
  cold ever since that experience...                        

                                    Sincerely,
                                    Margaret Liddon


  REPLY:

  4-30-93

  Dear Mrs. Liddon,

       Thanks so much for your letter and recollections of Roscoe
  Turner...  I would suspect it was from 1930-1932 since those are the
  years after which Gilmore, his pet lion grew too large to fly.

       I have no ready explanation for his disinterest when you introduced
  yourself to him.  Two things I would suspect.  One is that he could not
  remember any personal contacts with your family in the periods 1895-1911
  and 1920-1925 when he was living in Corinth.  [Mrs. Liddon's father, Dr.
  Williams moved to Corinth from Savannah, Tennessee in 1923]  Second, by
  most written accounts, Roscoe's outward appearance was largely an act for
  the public and he was in many ways a shy person, very emotional.  It
  could have been somewhat discomforting to be strutting his stuff in front
  of someone from his own hometown who might know of his humble beginnings
  or some embarrassing details of his personal life while he was speaking
  at a distinquished educational institution.   Herbert Brady told me a
  story yesterday of Roscoe's father chewing him out after hearing about
  Roscoe lecturing school children about "How, if he had only had the
  opportunities in school they had" when Roscoe apparently was one of the
  world's great offenders when it came to avoiding school and schoolwork.

        Your memories of the icy bridge helped round out the story- I think
  I know it now from every perspective.   It is interesting to me how, in a
  small town, events in our lives can be so interconnected and related....

  Thanks again for your letter,

  Milton Sandy, Jr.