ALS signed “Ty,” four pages, 7.25 x 10.25, personal letterhead, September 7, 1954. Letter to former teammate Archie Yelle. In part (with grammar and spelling retained): “It has been sometime since you have heard from me but I have not forgotten you and your friend and the very nice thing you did for me also there has been one thing after another that interfered with my coming by to see you, to my sorrow I have taken another route up here the two times I have traveled from Atherton, Calif. To Lake Tahoe this summer, Archie recently and alone I sure got a tough deal in Placerville, I suppose you saw it in papers, please believe me they surely gave me a very wrong deal and sometimes I wish I had never been publicly known and carried the name I do…I will tell you about it when I see you, its very difficult not to work up a hate to some of those boys away up in the corner of the state and who is tied up to the local Justice of peace. I was not the only one they took others and my attorney told me two army flyers from Maxwell Field who had been up to Lake Tahoe, and stuck them the same as I was, I was going to ask for Jury trial as I felt I was treated very wrong, my attorney from Auburn not Placerville stated they had boys that were under obligations and had, had good treatment by the J.P. and Jury would be packed and advised me not to ask for Jury trial and the extra expense to me…We will be here until Oct 18th when we go back to South Dakota for some pheasant, so any time between now and then will suit us, I would like much to reciprocate your very unusual kindness that you extended to me and it would be a pleasure if you all can come here…I have a fishing boat, out board motor also a Chris Craft 23 foot boat for pleasure cruising, we can go to Reno, Carson City, Virginia City and you will please me if you will come. I live on Nevada side of Lake Tahoe and very near Glenbrook also in as couple of hundred yards from Cave Rock, south 2 1/2 miles from Glenbrook, and yes we can get some deer very soon…My regards to your duck shooting partner.” A mild block of toning to last two pages from envelope, including over signature, otherwise fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope and a photocopy of a blurb from the August 7, 1954, issue of the Oakland Tribune reporting his arrest. A surprisingly contrite letter from the usually hard-nosed Cobb. Pre-certified Steve Grad/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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