Ernest Thomas Seton: an unforgettable personality. (Draft with hand-written revisions)

This piece, titled “Ernest Thompson Seton: an unforgettable personality”, gives a first hand interpretation of who Ernest Thompson Seton was through the eyes of Edgar Robinson. Robinson explains what a strong relationship the two of them had and what a strong mentor Seton was to Robinson. This copy contains a letter written by Hanford M. Burr, faculty member at Springfield College, outlining changes he suggested for the manuscript. The document also contains handwritten notations, assumed to be by Burr, of suggested changes to the manuscript. Ernest Thompson Seton was an author and illustrator of more than 50 works, and was largely responsible for the American Indian influence in the Boy Scouts of America that offered young people knowledge of an outdoor life based on Native American Indian customs, legends and beliefs. Seton was Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts of America from 1910 to 1915. Edgar M. Robinson was a 1901 graduate from the YMCA Training School, now Springfield college, where he later returned to serve on the faculty as the Honorary Director of Boys Work Courses and the Adviser in Methods and Principles in Work with Boys from 1927-1937.For biographical information on Edgar M. Robinson, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/554.This is a draft sent to H. M. Burr for revisions. The first sheet is a cover sheet that is written by H. M. Burr after he had completed his revisions and sent it back to Edgar Robinson