 Margaret Mitchell (I) (qv) was dismayed at the scale of the Tara  and Twelve Oaks sets, writing to her friend, technical advisor  Susan Myrick (qv), "I had feared, of course that [Twelve Oaks]  would end up looking like the Grand Central Station, and your  description confirms my worst apprehensions. I did not know whether  to laugh or to throw up at the TWO staircases.... God help me when  the reporters get me after Ive seen the picture. I will have to  tell the truth, and if Tara has columns and Twelve Oaks is such an  elegant affair I will have to say that nothing like that was ever  seen in Clayton County, or, for that matter, on land or sea.... When  I think of the healthy, hardy, country and somewhat crude  civilization I depicted and then of the elegance that is to be  presented, I cannot help yelping with laughter... "