Fepruary 2l, 1940

 

Mr. Forrest C. ALLEN

DIRECTOR OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION & RECREATION
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

LAWRENCE, KANSAS

DEAR MR. ALLEN?

THANK YOU FOR YOUR MOST KIND AND WELCOME LETTER OF FEBRUARY
2OTH ON HOW NOT TO WRITE A LETTER OVER A SCOTCHMAN'S SIGNA-=
TURE. YOUR POINTS OF CRITICISM ARE CONCISE, CLARIFYING,
CONSTRUCTIVE, AND CONFUCIUSLY COGENT, BUT | CAN'T PROMISE THEY
WILL REMAIN CONFIDENTIAL! THIS COCK#EYED WORLD NEEDS SUCH
ADVICE TOO BADLY FOR THAT.

HONESTLY THE LETTER IN QUESTION WAS NEITHER A GYP NOR A FOR}

GERY--WELL MAYBE JUST A LEETLE BIT FORGED, SUT THAT WITH

McDERMOTT'S PERMISSION. WHAT HAPPENED WAS THIS! Mr. T.

JACK FosSTER, THE PRESIDENT oF THE NorMAN CouRTS, CALLED MR.
McD. AND ASKED IF WE MIGHT SEND OUR GENIAL SECRETARY, F.K., OVER
TO GET A LETTER IN OUR BEHALF FROM HIM TO THE AFFABLE BUT
RECALCITRANT Forrest C. ALLEN. Mr. McD. AGREED AND OVER

WENT F.K. IN DICTATING THE LETTER H. V.. McD. DESCRIBED OUR
COURTS MOST GLOWINGLY BY SAYING THEY HAD RUNNING WATER WHICH
1S EQUIVALENT To SAYING THAT THE MUEHLESACH HOTEL IS MODERN.
WHETHER THIS WAS CHARACTERISTIC SCOTCH BREVITY ON H. V. McD.'ts
PART | DON'T KNOW. HE COULD HAVE HAD IN MIND THAT JUST A DAY
OR TWO BEFORE GEORGE EDWARDS AND HIS MISSOURI BOYS HAD STAYED
AT THE COURTS AND WERE SO RESTED AND REVIVIFIED THAT THEY