Chicago, Ill.
                                                                                              Nov. 18, 1918

Mose Ottenheimer,
Baltimore, Md.

Friend Mose:

                    Your nice letter just received today and mighty glad to hear from you. Also glad to hear you had confidence enough in me not to believe the rotten, nasty stories sent broad-cast by that cheap grafter Eddie Smith. He gave me another panning the other day. I suppose he does it because I do not send him any money. I think I will bring suit for liable against the Chicago American and Eddie Smith. Of course I do not know whether I will get any damages or not but I do think that that is the only way that I can get publicity enough to let the general public know that the stories he started were all unfounded and untruthful.

                    Closing with best wishes to your brother, nephew, Tipman and yourself, as ever,

                                                                           Your friend,

                                                                          Battling Nelson

                                                                             Hegewisch, Ill.

FROM THE BOOKS Battling Nelson had 150 fights and cleaned up more than $250,000 in his 20 years of prize fighting. When Wolgast nearly clubbed him to death at Port Richmond, on February 22, 1909, he was moving forward, not back. He was a shy brute and slow to make friends. His likes and dislikes were either black or white, but personal feeling never interfered with his ring work. To him, boxing was strictly a money proposition and he knew how to knuckle down to business. He was incorruptible, and behind that bleak stare, a sensitive human being marched blindly into fame. John D. McCallum-The Encyclopedia Of World Boxing Champions