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ADMIRAL WILLIAM S. SIMS - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 08/22/1919 - HFSID 24405

Sims cannot remember the Navy baseball player who met the King at the Army-Navy game that was played in London during WWI. Typed Letter Signed: "Wm S. Sims", 1p, 8x10½. U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, 1919 August 22. To Mr. A.E.

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WILLIAM S. SIMS
Sims cannot remember the Navy baseball player who met the King at the Army-Navy game that was played in London during WWI.
Typed Letter Signed: "Wm S. Sims", 1p, 8x10½. U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, 1919 August 22. To Mr. A.E. Gekdhof, The Newspaper Enterprise Association, Washington, D.C. In full: "The photograph referred to in your letter of August 20, 1919, was taken before the baseball game played between the American Army and Navy teams in London on July 4, 1918. The baseball player shaking hands with the King is the captain of the Navy team, I do not now recall his name." Last seven words handwritten by Sims. Admiral WILLIAM S. SIMS (1858-1936) former naval aide to President Theodore Roosevelt, was Commander of all U.S. naval forces in European waters from 1917-1919. Sims, President of the U.S. Naval College when he wrote this letter, was awarded the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Victory at Sea. Lightly creased, file holes at upper blank margin. Lightly foxed in blank areas. Diagonal fold at right blank margin. Overall, fine condition.

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