Boy Scouts Founder R. Baden-Powell TLS "Scoutmasters"
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Boy Scouts Founder R. Baden-Powell TLS "Scoutmasters"
Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941). Typed Letter Signed, "Robert Baden Powell", 1p, in fountain pen on blind-embossed Boy Scouts stationery, 8" x 10", June 3, 1913. To Vice Admiral Arthur A. Galloway in Kent. Expected mailing folds. Discoloration from paper clips at front and verso. Minor edgewear and scattered foxing. In very good plus condition.
Baden-Powell writes shortly after he founded the Boy Scouts regarding a "despatch-running scheme" of Galloway's. His letter reads in part: "At last I return your maps and papers of the despatch-running scheme. I have read them with the greatest interest and wonder - wonder at the amount and time and thought which you must have so generously lavished upon evolving it...I only wish that other Counties would follow your lead, but I can hardly hope to find Commissioners myself willing to devote their energies to so big a thing in the way you have done...I shall endeavour to impress the general idea on Commissioners and Scoutmasters, but can have but little hope of so complete a scheme being carried out anywhere else..."
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