OHIO UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
ATHENS, OHIO

DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN

July 22, 1940

Dear Dr. Allen,

Thank you very much indeed for your kindness in forwarding the
excellent glossy print. I trust the editors can use it in their make-up.
~ I have not yet mailed it since I am waiting for glossy prints for
reproduction from the Alumni office of some scenes in the life of Dr.
Naismith to accompany this one of yourself. The material is not scheduled
much before November so I may have your print in my hands longer than you
like. I have offered to pay for the other prints. Might I pay you for this
also? Then I would have it for use in a Saturday Evening Post or other
article which I should like to write sometime since I feel that this
brief sketch to appear in the Christian Herald is not the only piece I
have in my system, on the subject of Dr. Naismith and basketball. (I may
be wrong of course.) In any event, I am grateful for the use of the
picture.

Cordially yours,

M. Whitcomb Hess

(Mrs. John A. Hess)