NY Times Style Editor

7/14/92
The New York Times
New York, NY 10036

Dear NY Times Style Editor:

Happy Bastille Day! I tried repeatedly to thank you over the phone for sending me the pictures of my wedding from the May 24th, Sunday Times and to apologize for giving you a hard time about your newspaper's unfortunate policy of withholding negatives of unpublished photographs (despite pledges made by both your columnist and photographer). Having declared my good intentions on no less than five separate occasions, to different people who comprise your phalanx of assistants and call interceptors (only to be put off and not have my calls returned by you), I can only infer a fierce resolution on your part to never subject your delicate and discriminating eardrums to the apparently loathsome timbre of my unworthy voice. Hence the missive you are now holding.

Whereas I am grateful for the four 8x10's you promised and sent me, alas I'm sorry to report that there is a problem. The top photo of my wife, myself and our mothers was inadvertently printed vertically, thus making it off-center and without an important part of my mom's right shoulder as well as a good deal of the background that so beautifully and horizontally appeared in the style section of your fine publication. I assume such a mistake could never have been made by an experienced photo editor such as yourself. You probably didn't see it. The task of doing anything nice for me -- promised or otherwise -- was evidently so distasteful to you that perhaps you enlisted the support of one of your eager -- if incompetent – aforementioned helpers. This is, of course, supposition on my part. I sense that you are a person of high integrity and, as such, am certain you'll want to make this thing right and reprint the two 8x10's correctly to restore the missing chunk of Mom and the excised background floral arrangements, now that this error has finally been brought to your attention. Thanks in advance for your efforts.

Sincerely,

Jake Daehler

P.S. The two 8x10's of the bottom photo of my wife up on the chair are beautiful and expertly printed!

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