November 18, 1944.

Mr. We. E. Larned,
Publishing Director,
Whittlesey House,
350 West 42nd Street,
New York 18, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Larned:

I am now answering your two good letters of October 25 and 25. You
rather swept me off my feet with your demand that I get started on the
book right away. I want to make a short explanation.

When I was at the Iowa State High School Athletic Association Coaching
School at Boone, Iowa, this past summer, with other university and college
coaches, I gave two courses - Basketball, and the Theory and Practice of
Athletic Injuries. We had some 250 high school coaches at the week's con~
ference, There were several sporting goods salesmen like Lowe « Campbell
and others, who had a copy of ow text, Better Basketball. They sold a
few copies but of course did not push the sale.

As @ olimic I used these coaches who generally had either a bad mee
or a bad ankle carried over from their athletic participation in college,
or a sacro-iliac sprain, a bad back they called it. As an emphasis to
show what this course could do, I worked on these men. After I worked on
them they became interested more in the book, I pointed out that in
Better Basketball we had a chapter on athletic injuries entitled "Athletic
Injuries and Emergencies", part four in the book. This special chapter
sold about sixty books, and I promised these fellows that I would autograph
a text for then.

When I came back I wrote each one of these boys asking what autograph
they would like. I am sending some of these letters to you so that you
can see generally what they thought of the chapter. I would appreciate
your returning the letters to me at your convenience.

My notion was that we could use this entire chapter in a new book,
augmented with many new findings, treatments and the like since this last
book was written. I think without any doubt that we could get $4.00 for
this text because there is nothing on the market that compares with this
chapter that I have written. Dr. Thorndike's book ~ I have forgotten the
title - is the nearest approach, and that text does not include specific
manipulations like the chapter that I have written. Dr. Thorndike is at
Harvard, and so is Jim§y Cox, the head trainer who is one of my boys and
a graduate of the University of Kansas»