James A. Naismith wrote this letter to George O. Draper, Springfield College’s alumni secretary, in April 1935. He shares his plans to travel from Kansas to Massachusetts in order to attend commencement and notes that he'll have to move slowly to accommodate his first wife, Maude Evelyn (Sherman) Naismith. Since Draper agreed to help Naismith find YMCAs to lecture at along the way, Naismith requests that Draper look in Pittsburg and Lancaster on the way there and Albany or Canada on the way back. To learn more about Dr. James Naismith, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/645
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