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Monday
Dear Bob:
I am writing this letter and planning to give it to your mother
to forward as soon as she knows an address where she can reach
you.
I enjoyed your letter and card very much—thanks so much for
taking the trouble t£ write. I can fully appreciate your &e-
scrition of the Sierra Nevada country even though I am sure
you felt at the time you couldn't truly express what you saw
and felt. It is truly "beautiful up in that section—I would
certainly like to get £ack Aut in there again sometime. You
will see much more of similar "beauty up in the Northwest if
you get a chance to drive around a little. At your first opportunity you want to take a trip up to Mt« Rainier Park. It
probably can't be beaten anywhere in the country. I am quite
positive that you will like it up in the Puget Sound country
and hope that you will be able to hook on somewhere to your
advantage. However, if for any reason it turns out that you
don't like the country or that you can't find a decent job
within a reasonable length of time and your better judgement
tells you that it would be wise to come on back home for goodness sake don't let any false pride hold you back, I don't
think you will be confronted with that decision but if you
should it is just a suggestion.
On Wed. I ammgoing back to Adel for a few days before I go into
Chicagol I plan to work out a little bit in the park, play some
golf, and possible have a date or two before settling down to
the old grind. I don't exactly dread the next two weeks and yet
at the same time it isn't with a great deal of fire that I
anticipate another pre-season practice. However, out of the whole
deal a proposition may come that will make me glad I have gone
through with it. Yea or nea 1 know for sure that this year is
the last for this pickaninny as a football player.
This morning I went out early to play golf at the Field Club.
The results were absolutely nauseating—that is a succinct
statement but pregnated with feeling. If I hadn't seen it with
mine own eyes I would not have believed one fellow could do so
poorly. Absolutely disgusting. Yesterday afternoon I played on
the sams course with Red Spring and his boss. I had an 85 with
a 40 on the first nine. It really was just as bad as today even
though the score is fairly respectable. Its hard to figure out.
About a week ago I trotted ever to Pundee by myself—all relaxed
and not giving a hoop whether I did well or not, just wanted a
little exercise. I came in with a legitin&te 7? and missed a
two foot putt en the 18th for 76. But of course nobody belewves
that since noboby was with me.
U1
J
I went down to chin it a littleebit with Art the other night—down
at the Station. It turns out his gal is in town and staying a few
days at his place. So we pick her up and go out for a little
ride, buy some ice cream, and hit a few golf balls at the driving
range, AH in all a pretty good time. She is a rather cute little
snipe though she would in no wise appeal to us in anyway—which
may he a point in her "favor. Certainly when a guy finds a girl
that really appeals to him he must be in seventh heaven. Little
old Artie was all peaceful and contented all the while she was
Object Description
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| Title | Nile Kinnick correspondence, August-December 1940 |
| Creator | Kinnick, Nile C. (Nile Clarke), 1918-1943 |
| Date Original | 1940 |
| Description | Letters to and from Kinnick, a student leader, scholar, athlete, and naval officer from Iowa. This correspondence is chiefly letters to and from his family during his first semester of law school. Also included are letters regarding his introductory speech of Wendell Willkie. |
| Topical Subject (LCTGM) |
Football players Law students |
| Personal Name Subject |
Kinnick, Nile C. (Nile Clarke), 1918-1943 Kinnick family Hobbs, Bob |
| Corporate Name Subject | University of Iowa |
| Geographic Subject | United States -- Iowa |
| Chronological Subject | 1940-1950 |
| Type (DCMIType) | Text |
| Type (AAT) |
Correspondence Postcards Envelopes |
| Type (IMT) | jpeg |
| Digital Collection | Nile Kinnick Collection |
| Contributing Institution | University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Dept. |
| Archival Collection | Papers of Nile C. Kinnick, 1935-1991 |
| Collection Identifier | MSC0112 |
| Collection Guide | http://lib.uiowa.edu/collguides/?MSC0112 |
| Box Number | 1 |
| Rights Management | Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital object. Commercial use or distribution of the object is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. |
| Contact Information | Contact the Special Collections Department at the University of Iowa Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec%2Dcoll/contact/index.html |
| Digitization Specifications | Scanned with Ricoh Aficio 3228C Scanner at 600 ppi, 24-bit color. Master image available in tiff format. |
| Date Digital | 2011-12 |
| File Name | 31858060071051 |
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