The John D Wagner Hobby Letters - 1930s on...

[trdcrdkid]

Leon, I for one love these letters. Keep 'em coming! The writer of this last one, Bob Wilson, was one of the seven attendees at the gathering of collectors at Lionel Carter's house 11 years later in 1958, which I wrote about here: http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=227505

[Leon]

Originally Posted by trdcrdkid

Leon, I for one love these letters. Keep 'em coming! The writer of this last one, Bob Wilson, was one of the seven attendees at the gathering of collectors at Lionel Carter's house 11 years later in 1958, which I wrote about here: http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=227505

It was a rather small collecting world back then. The internet has made it exponentially larger. Interestingly there are still some who write letters by snail mail in the hobby. And every now and then I get some obscure small auction copied-pages catalog.

[Leon]

There are approx. 3-5 more letters after this one which were ascertained in the initial group of letters. This one probably references a few collectors but is more military and war related. Still some interesting reading...

[Leon]

These are the last of the original letters in, what looks to be, some of John Wagners estate letters. There are some letters between he and Charles Bray which I will try to post in the future. They date from 1944-1947 (still quite early in the way of hobby material).

[trdcrdkid]

Thanks as always for posting these, Leon. I see that the last letter is from Howard Leheup. I posted Lionel Carter's obituary of him here: http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=221758

And as for the second to last letter, I have the 1959 Sport Fan Who's Who (two copies of it, actually), and I think I remember seeing John Wagner in it, but I'll have to check later to be sure. I posted the entire 1958 Who's Who here:
http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=222091

[Leon]

Here are some letters from Charles Bray to Wagner.....there will be some more to follow too...

[Leon]

another Charles Bray to John Wagner letter....**It is read from top right to bottom and back up to top left....