This is perhaps a great opportunity to share this, if you haven't already seen it.
It is MLB's historian John Thorn's contribution:
https://ourgame.mlblogs.com/kid-nichols-in-his-own-words-c06896ab5f71
Kid Nichols, In His Own Words
John Thorn
Our Game
21 min read
Jul 10, 2012
"This document, never before published and largely unknown even to exist, may not contain startling revelations and indeed may be a mere historical curiosity. And yet … it is new, and the voice is that of Hall of Fame pitcher Charles Augustus “Kid” Nichols (1869–1953). It is appropriate to publish this thirty-page handwritten fragment on this day, as the All-Star Game is about to be played in Kansas City. That where the Kid lived from 1881 until his death, excluding the years of his professional ballplaying career.
The Nichols fragment resided in the files of the Baseball Hall of Fame since the 1950s. It was first published in Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, in the Fall 2010 issue, and is reprinted here with the permission of the publisher, McFarland and Company. The annotations in italics are the work of Bill Felber, estimable scholar and old friend. Typographical and orthographic oddities have been preserved."
