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Robert Baden-Powell typed letter signed shortly after he founded the Boy Scouts. Dated 3 June 1913 on ''Boy Scouts'' embossed stationery, Baden-Powell writes to Admiral Arthur Galloway regarding a ''despatch-running scheme'' of Galloway's. 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...[signed] Robert Baden-Powell'' in black fountain pen. Measures 8'' x 10''. Folds, minor edgewear and discoloration, overall in very good condition.
Robert Baden-Powell Letter Signed from 1913 -- ''...I shall endeavour to impress the general idea on Commissioners and Scoutmasters...''
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