Elvis Letter found?

[Menwithbrokenhearts]

I found this on a website and wondered if any of you had seen it, what your thoughts were and if it was authentic. thanks!

Here's the link http://www.elvislightedcandle.org/th...c_hello-01.htm

[Lonniebealestreet]

I'm no expert, but for a number of reasons, I think not!

[Captain Elwood David]

Wanda June Hill is a certifiable fissured ceramic (ie: crack-pot) of The Elvis World.

There is also so much ignorance & MYTH on the above linked web-site, that I honestly wouldn't even know where to start to begin to address it all; therefore, I won't.

MYTH makes you feel good on the inside, but .................. as is usually the case in life -- --------> if it feels good, it probably isn't too good for you. (or at least keep it in moderation - no pun intended).


Cappy

[Menwithbrokenhearts]

Thanks you guys. I felt apprehensive about this site before I even read the first page of the letter. Besides that, I would think that something like this would have been widely covered in more than just this web site. Thanks again!

[T_J]

Wanda is a raving lunatic.

[Captain Elwood David]

Wanda is a raving lunatic.

Agreed.

That's also putting it mildly.

She should be the logo for "Coo-Coo For Coco-Puffs."

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She published a book with some of her stories right after EP passed away (sometime in 1978) ......... and even Vernon Presley said he had no idea what this lady was talking about or who she was.

She also, as recently as the mid-90's, was trying to sell some blatantly bogus (& bizarre) written material by EP.

I equate her as being the first "Gail-Brewer Giorgio."


Cappy

[joanne]

It doesn`t sound like Elvis to me.

[maia]

I am 57 years old and saw Elvis perform live from 1969-1975 - 36 shows in all, mostly in Vegas and most of those I sat by the stage. I came to know people who knew him. NOT the MM guys, but others who worked in the hotel or came often..some ?gate-girls?, etc.

I have in the past written Elvis articles and show reviews for Rex Martin, Strictly Elvis, Reflections (Charlie Hodge and Dan Mingori?s publication in the late 1970's), Elvis World, and several other Elvis magazines through the years. All this under my former name of ?Christine Hayes?.

After Elvis? death I came to know Wanda June Hill and some of the other people like her, who developed friendships with Elvis mostly over the telephone at first, due to his reaching out to them...to ordinary people who were not originally ?Elvis fans?. How did he find them? On movie sets (extras, etc.) was one way. Once he had a ?phone friend? he would call THEIR friends or family members.

Wanda Hill did not write her first book alone...she does not tell her story alone. There were 13 others in her Elvis phone group, and they knew Elvis had others he called like that as well. All 13 and Wanda contributed to her story. I have known Wanda now for about 26 years. She is one of the most sane, loving and honest people I know. I have met some others of the 13 and they are also nice, decent, normal people.

I have listened to (many times) excerpts from Wanda?s recorded conversations with Elvis. I have read almost all the transcripts of these conversations. I heard on those tapes the same man who spoke on the stage in Vegas at rare times in a confidential tone of voice different from the stage ?Elvis?. When he would switch to that voice he was no longer ?Elvis Presley? but instead became Gladys Presley?s boy. When I first listened to Wanda?s tapes I didn?t hear ?Elvis Presley? speaking, but Gladys? boy. I knew without a doubt at that moment that it WAS Elvis. It was the very same voice he switched to on a very rare few occasions on stage...lost in thought, in memory of the past, sharing with his audience just as he shared with Wanda and other of his phone friends. Then he would snap back and be ?Elvis? again and get on with the show.

Much of Wanda?s tapes, transcripts and letters written by Elvis...many to her directly, reveal private information that would not be publically known, but which I already knew, at least in part from the other people I had met before who knew Elvis. In other words, her ?Elvis? matched theirs. Not only in personality, but in certain private details of his life.

Before you ?cast your stones? at Wanda June Hill I ask you to stop and think how people do exactly the same thing to Elvis. They hear a snatch of something someone says about him, or hear just one song...maybe ?Hound Dog?, and he becomes a drugged-out eccentric who couldn?t sing much and was a dumb as they come. Are you willing to make the same judgement call about someone because you read one letter and scanned over a website quickly? Especially when NOTHING on that website or of Wanda?s story about Elvis is negative, invasive or dis-respectful of his memory?

Would Elvis himself make negative statements about another human being he didn?t know and had barely any information on? As he said, ?Don?t judge someone you don?t know, son. You never walked in that man?s shoes.?

If you wish to take a more unbiased look at Wanda?s story, the letters, documents, etc:

http://www.elvislightedcandle.org/WJH/wjh_index.htm

I will not be responding any further to dis-respectful postings on the TCB Forums. Many thanks to those of you who are reading this with an open mind and heart.

[ricardo b. prospero]

The letter is very long and boring and I could not imagine Elvis writing a letter this long using a crude typewriter. It is too good to be true not for Elvis nature I would say.

[rhythmknights]

I don't buy it. The only long letters I've seen in his own writing are the one he wrote to Anita Wood when he was in the army & the one he wrote to Pres. Nixon. I can't picture him siting down & typing a 6 page letter & not have hand written notes all over the margins. I think he may hve instead handwritten it & had some one type it up nicely - like the Colonel's secretary.

[Tony Trout]

Wanda June Hill is a certifiable fissured ceramic (ie: crack-pot) of The Elvis World.

There is also so much ignorance & MYTH on the above linked web-site, that I honestly wouldn't even know where to start to begin to address it all; therefore, I won't.

MYTH makes you feel good on the inside, but .................. as is usually the case in life -- --------> if it feels good, it probably isn't too good for you. (or at least keep it in moderation - no pun intended).


Cappy

Wanda is a raving lunatic.

Agreed.

That's also putting it mildly.

She should be the logo for "Coo-Coo For Coco-Puffs."

---------------------------------------------

She published a book with some of her stories right after EP passed away (sometime in 1978) ......... and even Vernon Presley said he had no idea what this lady was talking about or who she was.

She also, as recently as the mid-90's, was trying to sell some blatantly bogus (& bizarre) written material by EP.

I equate her as being the first "Gail-Brewer Giorgio."


Cappy

The letter is very long and boring and I could not imagine Elvis writing a letter this long using a crude typewriter. It is too good to be true not for Elvis nature I would say.

Agreed on all counts.....WJH has been proven to be a fraud and fake and is seemingly only interested in two things.....$$$ and the "celebrity" status this stuff brings her.....

There's no way that Elvis would ever take the time and write out (much less type) a letter like that or talk to someone on the phone for any length of time and these kinds of discussions get very old....very quickly.

I signed up for her forum just for the heck of it and didn't even get a confirmation email to activate my membership...not that I would have stayed long, though.....

[ksimms2]

I am 57 years old and saw Elvis perform live from 1969-1975 - 36 shows in all, mostly in Vegas and most of those I sat by the stage. I came to know people who knew him. NOT the MM guys, but others who worked in the hotel or came often..some ?gate-girls?, etc.

I have in the past written Elvis articles and show reviews for Rex Martin, Strictly Elvis, Reflections (Charlie Hodge and Dan Mingori?s publication in the late 1970's), Elvis World, and several other Elvis magazines through the years. All this under my former name of ?Christine Hayes?.

After Elvis? death I came to know Wanda June Hill and some of the other people like her, who developed friendships with Elvis mostly over the telephone at first, due to his reaching out to them...to ordinary people who were not originally ?Elvis fans?. How did he find them? On movie sets (extras, etc.) was one way. Once he had a ?phone friend? he would call THEIR friends or family members.

Wanda Hill did not write her first book alone...she does not tell her story alone. There were 13 others in her Elvis phone group, and they knew Elvis had others he called like that as well. All 13 and Wanda contributed to her story. I have known Wanda now for about 26 years. She is one of the most sane, loving and honest people I know. I have met some others of the 13 and they are also nice, decent, normal people.

I have listened to (many times) excerpts from Wanda?s recorded conversations with Elvis. I have read almost all the transcripts of these conversations. I heard on those tapes the same man who spoke on the stage in Vegas at rare times in a confidential tone of voice different from the stage ?Elvis?. When he would switch to that voice he was no longer ?Elvis Presley? but instead became Gladys Presley?s boy. When I first listened to Wanda?s tapes I didn?t hear ?Elvis Presley? speaking, but Gladys? boy. I knew without a doubt at that moment that it WAS Elvis. It was the very same voice he switched to on a very rare few occasions on stage...lost in thought, in memory of the past, sharing with his audience just as he shared with Wanda and other of his phone friends. Then he would snap back and be ?Elvis? again and get on with the show.

Much of Wanda?s tapes, transcripts and letters written by Elvis...many to her directly, reveal private information that would not be publically known, but which I already knew, at least in part from the other people I had met before who knew Elvis. In other words, her ?Elvis? matched theirs. Not only in personality, but in certain private details of his life.

Before you ?cast your stones? at Wanda June Hill I ask you to stop and think how people do exactly the same thing to Elvis. They hear a snatch of something someone says about him, or hear just one song...maybe ?Hound Dog?, and he becomes a drugged-out eccentric who couldn?t sing much and was a dumb as they come. Are you willing to make the same judgement call about someone because you read one letter and scanned over a website quickly? Especially when NOTHING on that website or of Wanda?s story about Elvis is negative, invasive or dis-respectful of his memory?

Would Elvis himself make negative statements about another human being he didn?t know and had barely any information on? As he said, ?Don?t judge someone you don?t know, son. You never walked in that man?s shoes.?

If you wish to take a more unbiased look at Wanda?s story, the letters, documents, etc:

http://www.elvislightedcandle.org/WJH/wjh_index.htm

I will not be responding any further to dis-respectful postings on the TCB Forums. Many thanks to those of you who are reading this with an open mind and heart.

Maia, thanks for posting this. I, myself am not familiar with your friend and will view her site with open eyes....thank you for posting....