Letter from Fred Dickens to George Draper (November 29, 1939)
Description:
This is a three-page handwritten letter from Fred W. Dickens to George Draper dated November 29, 1939. The letter is in response to the death of Dr. James Naismith. In the letter Dickens remembers when he met Dr. Naismith in 1936. The last page is a note referring to an autograph that he sent with the letter that he had gotten from Dr. Naismith. This autograph can be seen with item ms506-01-19-030 (https://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15370coll2/id/19476).
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