Photocopy of a letter sent from Oscar S. Stauffer, Chairman, The Landon-For-President Committee to Mr. W. Bancroft Mellor, dated March 28, 1936. The letter states that Governor Alf M. Landon will not participate in any primaries.
A copy of this letter appears with the article, “Gov. Landon Not a Candidate in the California Republican Presidential Primary: GOVERNOR'S OWN LETTER EXPOSES HEARST TRICK Documented Record of Kansan's Repeated Refusals to Enter Contest in This State,” Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 1936: 10