NH Steve
Administrator
For me the LoC was a dead end, they told me that back then, they only held onto material like this for a few years, and then it was discarded.
Sad to think it ended up that way , but unless the heirs have a copy , I doubt it will ever surface.
That is what I was told too, but I still have someone local working on it. Because it would be too bad if it got dumped. But the more I have been thinking about it, the more I think if it does turn up at the LOC, it is only going to be his version of the rules -- not any great secrets about how he played the game. The reason I say that is you look at when he registered it with them, 1963, that is exactly when the first rules of One Pocket were just starting to get published, anywhere. And in 1963 Lingo was actually still competing, and according the the Beard, he was still a feared player even when he was old and weak. He did not die until 1973, so to me given that hustler mentality, I find it hard to believe he would have made public (as documents are that are filed with the LOC), while he was still competing.
So, yes, I am excited about the idea of finding this long rumored missing Hayden Lingo document, but I am tempering that with what is probably the realistic expectations that it is only the rules.