It makes me very happy indeed to enclose herewith check for Thirty-Three Thousand ($33,000) dollars as the first step toward a trust fund for Mr. Ge. H. (“Babe”) Ruth. This is in accordance with our several past conversations and my wire from here February 6. And it concludes a campaign of nearly three years in which I have pleaded with my good friend Babe to do this important thing for his own future happiness. The difficulty has been to get him in an agreeable mood—and with the necessary cash on hand—both at the same time. I was able to engineer this by getting him to leave all receipts from
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