Bing Crosby

Hillsborough

February 22, 1972

Dear Herb:

Laurie Auchterlonie sent me a beautiful putter the other day. Said it was a Christmas gift from you, and I thank you heartily.

It's a beautiful putter. Just the type I like - wood shaft, with a sort of an old George Nicoll head - at least, it looks like an old George Nicoll head, nice weight and feel to it.

I haven't been able to try it out on a green yet, but I will soon.

Hope to see you at the Open Championship. I think it's going to be really one of the greatest of our Opens.

It represents the first time the National Championship has been played on a links. At Pebble Beach, you know, there are eight holes where the sea comes into play.

They've done a few little things to the course. Lengthened #2, so it will be difficult to carry the gully, which is about 50 yards short of the green.

\#3 is a little longer. They won't be able to drive over the trees on the left. They'll have to

P. G. Wodehouse
Remsenburg
Long Island, New York 11960

Jan 4. 1975

Dear Erb,

I mean Herb.

Thanks awfully for your letter of congrat-
-ulation.

The knighthood has given me a dizzy
feeling, which the eccentricity of my typewriter
has done nothing to allay. I don't know what's
wrong with it. Why it should print your name
Erbh I can't imagine. It also howls at intervals
like a banshee.

All the best.

Yours ever

ROBERT TYRE JONES, JR.

75 POPLAR STREET, N. W.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
30303

May 20, 1968

Mr. Herbert Warren Wind
The New Yorker
No. 25 West 43rd Street
New York, New York 10036

Dear Herb:

Thank you for yours of the 17th. Of
course, I could not fail to take pleasure in
doing anything asked of me by you and Jack
Nicklaus. I shall count on your sending me
copy of the manuscript as you have suggested
sometime in June. My foreword will not be long,
nor will it be a literary masterpiece; but I
hope it will reflect the sincere regard I hold
for both the authors.

I, too, enjoyed our visit in Augusta,
as usual, but I did miss seeing Al Laney. I hope
you will give him my best next time you see him.

Really, I am not as far down the well
physically as I appeared to be in Augusta. I
picked up an intestinal virus a week or ten days
before the Masters and could not shake the thing,
even with a course of antibiotics. Even with
that, I could perhaps have done a bit more than
I did. Had I known in time that the score card
episode was going to be present, I most certainly
would have appeared at the presentation, both on
television and on the putting green. This happened
to be the one time that I felt I should have lent