Robert Dun Douglass to Cary T. Grayson
Title
Robert Dun Douglass to Cary T. Grayson
Creator
Douglass, Robert Dun
Identifier
WWP16054
Date
1919 October 28
Source
Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia
Language
English
Text
For the Promotion and Protection of Trade
Established 1841
The Mercantile Agency
RG Dun & Co.
New York
Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson,
Washington, DC
Dear Mr. Grayson:-
I have just seen in the “Adirondack Enterprise” issue of October 17th, that “President Wilson May Follow Pershing Into Adirondacks for Recuperation.”
I just drop a line to say that I have a very nice camp on Upper Saranac Lake, not a very great distance from the outlet, opposite Mr. Seligman’s camp. It is a thoroughly well built house with a fine cellar, furnished, open fireplaces everywhere, and well stocked with wood and coal. I have two men on the place and expect to keep them all winter. The house has one good sleeping room on the first floor, four nice sleeping rooms with connecting baths on the second floor and three on the third, and four or five rooms for domestics.
If the President will accept of the house and place, at absolutely no cost to him as far as I am concerned, I should feel very much complimented.
Faithfully yours,
Robert Dun Douglass
FROM THE ADIRONDACK ENTERPRISE
SARANAC LAKE, NY
New York, Friday, October 17, 1919
President Wilson May Follow Pershing
Into Adirondacks for Recuperation
_______
There is a possibility that President Wilson may be sent to the Adirondacks this winter for recuperation. Admiral Grayson, the personal physician of President Wilson and head of the navy medical staff, it is said, considers the Adirondacks most highly for recuperation following nervous strain. It was through his advice that Admiral Benson, chief of naval operations during the war, came to Saranac Lake for recuperation when a nervous breakdown was threatened in the midst of the war.
The fact that both Admiral Benson and General Pershing, who is now on a hunting trip in the Adirondacks for the purpose of recuperating after the long strain in Europe, both looked to the Adirondacks when their healths demanded a change of scene, shows how highly this section is considered by the medical authorities in Washington. Admiral Benson, it is said, recovered strength rapidly during his visit on the Lower Saranac in the summer of 1918, and speaks very enthusiastically of his visit at Saranac Lake.
Whether the President will take a cottage in the vicinity of Saranac Lake, as did Admiral Benson, should he be sent here by his physician, or whether he will take a suite of rooms at one of the resort hotels, is not known. It is thought more probable, however, that the President’s party will select one of the cottages for their visit here. There is no hotel in Saranac Lake which could give suitable accommodations for such a party, it is said, although such accommodations might be secured at the Lake Placid Club.
Established 1841
The Mercantile Agency
RG Dun & Co.
New York
Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson,
Washington, DC
Dear Mr. Grayson:-
I have just seen in the “Adirondack Enterprise” issue of October 17th, that “President Wilson May Follow Pershing Into Adirondacks for Recuperation.”
I just drop a line to say that I have a very nice camp on Upper Saranac Lake, not a very great distance from the outlet, opposite Mr. Seligman’s camp. It is a thoroughly well built house with a fine cellar, furnished, open fireplaces everywhere, and well stocked with wood and coal. I have two men on the place and expect to keep them all winter. The house has one good sleeping room on the first floor, four nice sleeping rooms with connecting baths on the second floor and three on the third, and four or five rooms for domestics.
If the President will accept of the house and place, at absolutely no cost to him as far as I am concerned, I should feel very much complimented.
Faithfully yours,
Robert Dun Douglass
FROM THE ADIRONDACK ENTERPRISE
SARANAC LAKE, NY
New York, Friday, October 17, 1919
President Wilson May Follow Pershing
Into Adirondacks for Recuperation
_______
There is a possibility that President Wilson may be sent to the Adirondacks this winter for recuperation. Admiral Grayson, the personal physician of President Wilson and head of the navy medical staff, it is said, considers the Adirondacks most highly for recuperation following nervous strain. It was through his advice that Admiral Benson, chief of naval operations during the war, came to Saranac Lake for recuperation when a nervous breakdown was threatened in the midst of the war.
The fact that both Admiral Benson and General Pershing, who is now on a hunting trip in the Adirondacks for the purpose of recuperating after the long strain in Europe, both looked to the Adirondacks when their healths demanded a change of scene, shows how highly this section is considered by the medical authorities in Washington. Admiral Benson, it is said, recovered strength rapidly during his visit on the Lower Saranac in the summer of 1918, and speaks very enthusiastically of his visit at Saranac Lake.
Whether the President will take a cottage in the vicinity of Saranac Lake, as did Admiral Benson, should he be sent here by his physician, or whether he will take a suite of rooms at one of the resort hotels, is not known. It is thought more probable, however, that the President’s party will select one of the cottages for their visit here. There is no hotel in Saranac Lake which could give suitable accommodations for such a party, it is said, although such accommodations might be secured at the Lake Placid Club.
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Grayson, Cary T. (Cary Travers), 1878-1938
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Citation
Douglass, Robert Dun, “Robert Dun Douglass to Cary T. Grayson,” 1919 October 28, WWP16054, Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.