Correspondence and Notes on the Early History of the Boy Scouts of America
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“Correspondence and Notes on the Early History of the Boy Scouts of America” was prepared by Edgar M. Robinson, a graduate and faculty member of Springfield College, who collected these documents while researching the history of the Boy Scouts. Most of the documents are letters written by Robert Baden-Powell, Ernest Thompson Seton, Daniel Carter Beard, and Ernest M. Robinson. From 1909-1910, many of the primary documents describing the boy scouts movement went missing. In this absence, Beard, Seton, and Baden-Powell all claim to have conceived of the Boy Scouts first. Throughout the letters, each vehemently argues that the other two contributed nothing of value to the movement.
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Blank pages were not digitized due to space limitations. The Boy Scouts Movement Timeline was written on the back of duplicates of a letter from Springfield College. These are not digitzed, as they are not relevant to the collected material.
