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Law Offices
W. H. H. Piatt
903 Grand Avenue
Kansas City,Wo.

 

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Cable address “Piamar"” November 28, 1945.
Telephone Harrison 5566

Mary Maude Smelser,
Assistant Librarian,
Kansas University,
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Mary Maude:

Am not weeping but sincerely sorry for the defeat of Saturday
last.

I have dictated practically all the matters, athletic and other-=
wise, of possible general interest in the curricular year of 1891 and one
or two matters of '92, my mention of which to the Chancellor at the rally te
here the night before the game met his accord; and I now enumerate certain —
pictures I wish you may obtain for me either through the assistance of :
Professor Hopkins, Secretary Fred Ellsworth, the Athletic Department and
"Phog" Allen:

(1) Three gloss or finished prints of the '91 team, of the '92 team,
of the "93 team and the '94 team (I have a picture of the '95 team that I
can have rephotographed) to fit a § and 1/2 " by 11" sheet of the binder
I will make up.

ee Also there was a picture of the 1892 backs, Kinzie, Williamson,
Champlin and myself posed as kicking for goal. Fred Ellsworth of the
Athletic Department there, I assume, has it as somebody sent me a reproduc-
tion of it in the "Blue Diamond" of. Kansas City two or three years ago.

(3) Another picture I desire is of cabinet size taken by Jim Noble
of the street working brigade as they were marching east from Mississippi
Street carrying their shovels and led by Sam James, the Negro policeman, en-
route to work on East Henry Street; this being a cabinet sized photo
would not need reduction.

Ascertain for me if these pictures I want can be made by the

Photographie Department of the University and, if so, the price therefor;
otherwise they may be sent me and I will have the work done here. It may
be necessary to apply to Professor Hopkins for some of the pictures. By
the way, he really enjoyed being at the game last Saturday. I might observe
in this connection that the two years, '91 and '92, of his management of the we
team, there were no jealousies nor schisms in the team, but the philosophy ba
of the "Three Guardsmen" obtained all the time, and he lost in the 16 aS
games of the two seasons but one game to Baker, and that because Champlin
was ill and out of the game, one or two others were out and replaced, and
I was absent as a witness against young Bassett for shooting Bill Higgins.

   
 
   

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