Correspondence, letterhead, printed text: “Riverside Place Savannah, Georgia Chas. Bernard Billboard Representative”. Correspondence, body, handwritten text: “Dec. 16, 1925 H.H. Gunning Toledo Ohio Dear Friend Gunning Your letter from Watertown N.Y. reached me today. I wrote you a long letter a few days after receiving the Bailey photo, think I sent it to Hornell N.Y. [Illegible] it missed you and has laid in some hotel office or P.O. – With the Bailey photo you sent one of your house at Toledo. I am planning to arrange all of my historical collections into an exhibit and install it in a building which I am now preparing to build alongside of my “little White House” store at Riverside Place. I have so much interesting and rare old time circus and theatrical souvenirs that I can arrange it as a sort of Curio hall and Musee and advertise it as a special exhibit of old and rare circus and theatrical souvenirs and relics. The Bailey photo is highly prized by me and will occupy a prominent place in my exhibit as well as in my book, which I hope to get into the hands of publishers during 1926. If you can dig up any other old photos, programmes, route cards & c. of the shows you was with, particularly on the European tours, I will be awful thankful for anything you can send me. Can you tell me who published the book “Four Years in Europe with Buffalo Bill” – and have you a copy of it? Did the shows on their European trips use any lithos, heralds & c. printed by foreign printers and have you any among your effects at home? (over)”
