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Cc. M. ARNOLD, MANAGER

DOWNS, KANSAS

Dr, ©, GC, Alien
Director of Physical Education
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear "Doc":

I received your good letter of July 27th
and was very well pleased with the spirit
of the contents.

I have been planning to write to you for some
time; but until today, I have been working at
night and sleeping during the day, and, there-
fore, have had little time to keep up with my
correspondence. I am going to try to come down
to Lawrence either the last of this week or the
first of next week. I want to see about a room,
some employment, etc.

Doc, I'm afraid that you've been misinformed
about my father's and my occupation. He doesn't
live on a farm now and I never did. However,
ifXt me that I have been working on a farm.

I began the 15th of June working in the harvest
fields and worked steadily at that job until

the 20th of July. From the latter date until
the 87th of July I was employed at night plowing.
Beginning today thru until Sept. 1, I will work
with my father in his lumber Yaron.

I'm glad to get a copy of the basketball schedule,
and to see that you haze a good one worked out.

Doc, I've always felt rather "sheepish" about the
way I played last year. T've done a lot better
than that all thru my preceding years in that sport.
I don't know just exactly what was wrone, but I do
know that I'll try to do @ lot better this year.

My chief worry now is in tryine to lose some

weicht. I weigh 185 now,

I've been getting along exceptionally well finan-
cially this summer, but I'm afraid that rT'll still
need a job or two to get thru another year. If you
happen to know of any little thing, that I could do,
I'd certainly like to hear of it or to talk to vou
about it wren I come down.

I hope that you have been spending an enjoyable
sumrer,

Simcerely

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