MONSANTO MAGAZINE

PUBLISHED BY MONSANTO CHEMICAL COMPANY

St. Louris, Missouri

OFFICE OF

HOWARD A. MARPLE “October 19, 1942

AIR MAIL - SPECIAL

Publicity Department
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Gentlemen:

Our October issue of Monsanto Magazine carried the story
of baseball that proved to be of great reader interest,
and now we are preparing a short sequel on basketball.

As the literature points to one Dr. James A. Naismuth of
the University of Kansas as the inventor of basketball,
we are hoping you may have a file both historieal and
photographic on the subject.

May we use for our story, or can you refer us to the source
of such material, anything you have available? We under-
stand that Dr. Naismuth died a few years ago, so we thought
you might have some interesting data available.

Naturally, we shall credit all material, including photo-
graphs, to you and the good doctor.

An air mail, stamped envelope is enclosed for your reply.

Sincerely yours

 

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