ALS signed “T. R. Cobb,” three pages on two sheets, 7.25 x 10.25, personal letterhead, December 6, 1948. Letter to Helene Champlain. In full: “It seems in my effort to be nice and polite to people generally I run into embarrassing things, now it’s Tom McClure for sure, I wrote you recently about him my thought was based on his #1 shock to me, where he said my son Herschel had been in Bend Oregon & made very disparaging remarks of me…Tom is strictly an excentric [sic], baseball bug, I was polite to him on that account & let him come to see me at Lake Tahoe, I am now sorry, peculiar people in this world, which includes Mrs. La Pointe [minor theatre, radio, and Hollywood actress Lucille La Pointe] who is no longer with me. When I first met Tom, I figured him out right as has been proven. I needed a housekeeper. Knowing I was getting rid of her, Tom was told this, he has reversed charges on phone to me was getting someone etc., fine cook, turned out to be just a lumber camp cook, now and a drunk, now the enclosed is another example of Tom, have just received it, return it at once, don’t know them, never wrote them. Tom even did not inform me, out here I get the enclosed & taken to task so you can figure how I now feel about Tom. Send me the Beveridge of Jefferson as I wrote you, and write me and don’t be silent as you have, possibly on account of Tom, I don’t know but am guessing and I guess good sometime. Be good.” Cobb also adds a handwritten postscript, signed “T.R.C.” In fine condition. A letter full of regret from the baseball legend lamenting his politeness. Pre-certified Steve Grad/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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