Collins, Broomfield Correspondence on Cammeyer and the Zither Banjo

[Joel Hooks]

Okay, here is the entire contents of the file folder scanned.  The carbon copies of Collins' letters were so light that I could not read them.  I was able to play with my scanner settings to bring out the text.

You have to get through some trash talk before you get to the interesting info.

The extracts were typed out by George Collins after Broomfield sent him all of Cammeyers' letters. It is too bad we don't have those. Collins did keep one letter (scanned in this file).

Please read and discuss!  I won't give any spoilers, but the stuff about Farland, while not surprising, is interesting to get from a primary source. 

https://archive.org/details/collected-letters-george-collins-and-le...

[Jody Stecher]

In the third line of page 2 of the letter of August 6. 1952 there is a sentence that seems to begin

"He struck with his finger life ..."

 I'm trying to guess what was intended that looks like "life" but is probably some other word. Can anyone decipher it?

[Joel Hooks]

Stuck with his finger tips.

[Jody Stecher]

Ah.  Tips makes sense. 

Joel Hooks said:

Stuck with his finger tips.