Box oey Metnepolie Los Angeles, Califor peer 16, 19th. t af Peysical” Bducation, as! ity of Kansas, _— Lawrence, Kansas. 2 Dest Dr. Allen: : | eS) : Se vou About vanes nent ae ago I was given s information ‘by a certain resident of Boulder, Colorado, for four years (1938-42) I taught in the University o: - rado. yAfter being furnished this information, I wrot: two réiable persons at the University and received ' them that my informant had given me accurate statements. concern assertions made by a certain woman in ae ‘Benet of So at the University of Solorado. et First I should say that in anon, 16m, th ne to @ letter handed me by the Head of the Depa | _ of English, brought about my dismissal from that Univ furnishing the charge that sa utonte tried to avers my en oehs oe ae oe The information which I later received from es was that this woman asserted, late in 1943, Yreal reason that I was let out was not that students © my classes” but that I had been associated with — eos I was at the Petey enss of Raniaas « | eee Naturally you will understnad that I ‘yews Seor: aevine you, particularly, whether you can tell mg more about this. I do not mean that the rumor was sa. . have come from your Department. I believe that it 1 oa for me not to be more specific just now, HONS ee 2) Vothink thet I should know of any statemen ‘may have made the woman in Golorado feel free to mak - an assertion. I think that. there is no question of ice hostility toward'me. Still, had she nothing to Oo I imagine that she would have connected me with a in Jolorats itself. : I know hak I can trust you not. to let oes | into anyone else's hands , and I would rather | > apmpath o the matter to “any idroe eons a bet