<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body > <br>Lynne Burnett <lynneburnett@charter.net> wrote:<br><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">On this website: <a href="http://www.toonopedia.com/barks.htm">http://www.toonopedia.com/barks.htm</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"><p><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">it states: “<a name="cont">Most of Carl Barks's published work was unsigned. During most of his working years, he received absolutely no response from his readers, the vast majority of</a> whom knew nothing about him except there was something very special about his stories. When, in the early 1960s, he got his first fan letter, he thought it was a practical joke.”<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";display:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Does anybody know anything about Barks’s first fan letter? My father wrote to Barks in the early 60’s. I don’t have a copy of the letter my father sent, but I do have the letter that Barks sent along with a small hand drawn picture of Donald. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">I would love to know if my father was Barks’s first fan.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Lynne Burnett<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body>