This transcription reproduces a personal audio recording sent by George Dougherty, a West Virginian trial lawyer and part-time entertainer, to Western North Carolina journalist, John Parris. Parris was a long-time columnist for the Asheville Citizen-Times, writing columns on Appalachian life and storytelling, preserving twentieth century mountain culture in his writing. Parris wrote over seven thousand columns and five books during his lifetime. The sender of the transcribed tape, George Dougherty, was a West Virginian attorney based out of Charleston, known for his persona as “The Earl of Elkview,” in which he performed songs on radio and stage. In the transcribed recording, Dougherty gives compliments on Parris’s writings, shares anecdotes of his West Virginian influences, and sings a song likely titled “Snuff-Dippin’ Woman for a ‘Baccer Chewin’ Man.”