1508-10 GRAND AVENUE

PHONE GRAND 1910

KANSAS Criry,Mo. December 20, 1944

Dr. Forrest C.Allen,
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Phog:

It is with deep sorrow that I write you that Taft Talbot
died on Sunday Decenber 17th, while quail hunting.

We are closing the store at 1:00 o'clock today to attend
his funeral and all of we boys in the store are going to
act as pall bearers because we think Taft would have wanted
it that way.

Apparently in chasing a quail that he had wounded down a
thickly wooded draw his heart suddenly gave out at the
moment that he picked up the quail and he was found dead

by his companions flat on his face with a quail in his hand,

We do hope that you will tell all of the boys at the University
of Kansas of Taft's death.

“It Pays to Play”