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WILLIAM “BILL” TILDEN

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WILLIAM “BILL” TILDEN
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>WILLIAM “BILL” TILDEN </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>((1893-1953). American tennis champion, member of Davis Cup team, winning at Wimbledon, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Later joining the pros ranks, he authored <i>How to Play Better Tennis</i> (1950) among others, and a play <i>They All Want Something</i> produced in 1926. ALS “<i>Bill</i>” in bold pencil, 1½ pp, single sheet, small 8vo, Saugus, CA, Nov 22, 1949. On lined paper to Mrs. Marion Anderson in Hollywood looking forward to her arrival and other personal news. In part, “...<i>The mail has just come but no note from my pal & I’m disgusted...I will be looking eagerly for you on Thursday morning and I again urge the earlier the better since visiting is up at the T building like Armistice Day. If there is a crowd it’s not too good. I am working out daily & think I can get my legs in pretty good shape in a month. I love you lots dearly and am thinking of you all the time</i>...” Plus intact original transmittal envelope with holograph address. Tilden again signs his name on the return address, “<i>W. T. Tilden</i>...” Fine.</span></p>