Dre Barle G, Brom |
Department of Health
Mineola, New York

Dear Dre Brows 7 : a oe

Your very welcome letter wes received tnis morning and I assure

_- Gonserning our trip to New York, we'plan to play Fordhan in —
. Madison Squere Garden on the 28th, Temple at Philadelphia on the 30th,
and Loyela in Chicago on January 2. I am enclosizig a couple of our
basketball schedules for your handy convenience in reference to dates

We have not determined exactly when we will leave Lawrence, —
For that reason i an not certain whether I could acespt your vory kind
invitation te speak to the Kiwanis Club of Hempsteade I an afraid,
however, that it will not be possible for us to arrive in New York —
before the 27th at the earliest. - :

Z do want to congratulate you first upon your presidency of
Kiwanis, and I want te thank you for your kind invitation extended to —
m@e Nothing would give me more pleasure than to sit in a group administered
‘by you and further to have a long fat chewing episode after the meeting
when we could be alonee I enjoyed very much all the contacts that I
_@ver had with you and I cherish the opportunity of renewing our old

‘ We are staying in the Hotel Piccadilly in New York and the

Hotel Philadelphia in Philedslphia, last year we stayed at the Allerton
in Chieago anéd doubtless we will stay at the same place this yeare As

soon as I definitely arrange my itinerary I will write yous We are planning
te work out on the way, although I have not mde final arrangenents regard-

_. (ing the trips

| i am grieved to learn of the seriovs illness of Yrs. Brown. It seems
as if life cannot be full of the joys that should come to a law-abiding, earnest
family man, but as hard as we try and as skilled as we might be, the very
things that we hope to p: fall heavily upon use I trust that this.
serious illmess will pass away and that you may have the durable conforts end
pleasures of homes,