Mrs. Lewis J. Smith to Cary T. Grayson
Title
Mrs. Lewis J. Smith to Cary T. Grayson
Creator
Smith, Mrs. Lewis J.
Identifier
WWP15908
Date
1919 October 7
Description
Mrs. Lewis J. Smith writes Cary T. Grayson; claims the President's enemies say he is crazy.
Source
Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia
Language
English
Text
Dear Sir
At this time when heavy responsibilities lay on your shoulders I dislike very my to impose on your valuable time. but our dear President’s brutal enemies has reported around that he has gone clean crazy. I just had an awful quarrel with a traveling salesman over it. I told him that I had many years experience with the insane, and that I believed he was discussing his own case with me.
During the German conspiracy trial of Bopp, Von Schack. et all., in San Francisco my husband Lewis J. Smith who was our Country’s witness was so abused on all sides by our country’s enemies, that he had nervous prostration—At that time in 1915–16. in San Francisco, public sentiment was so strong against us, that I would not dare call in a Physician, because there was not a living person in SF that I would trust. They would be only be too glad to get a chance to report all sorts of lies about him, and so I took care of him myself. It was then that my years of experience with nervous patients became invaluable to me.
Oh, if the enemies of our own country only knew at that time what a sick man he was. The history of the Huns would be changed, my husband has often said that I helped to keep his Indian figthting-blood in trim, and believe me he was some “hard” patient to manage.
I hope your beloved patient’s is in Indian fighting trim by this time
Resp’tfy Yours
Mrs Lewis J. Smith
At this time when heavy responsibilities lay on your shoulders I dislike very my to impose on your valuable time. but our dear President’s brutal enemies has reported around that he has gone clean crazy. I just had an awful quarrel with a traveling salesman over it. I told him that I had many years experience with the insane, and that I believed he was discussing his own case with me.
During the German conspiracy trial of Bopp, Von Schack. et all., in San Francisco my husband Lewis J. Smith who was our Country’s witness was so abused on all sides by our country’s enemies, that he had nervous prostration—At that time in 1915–16. in San Francisco, public sentiment was so strong against us, that I would not dare call in a Physician, because there was not a living person in SF that I would trust. They would be only be too glad to get a chance to report all sorts of lies about him, and so I took care of him myself. It was then that my years of experience with nervous patients became invaluable to me.
Oh, if the enemies of our own country only knew at that time what a sick man he was. The history of the Huns would be changed, my husband has often said that I helped to keep his Indian figthting-blood in trim, and believe me he was some “hard” patient to manage.
I hope your beloved patient’s is in Indian fighting trim by this time
Resp’tfy Yours
Mrs Lewis J. Smith
Original Format
Letter
To
Grayson, Cary T. (Cary Travers), 1878-1938
Files
Collection
Citation
Smith, Mrs. Lewis J., “Mrs. Lewis J. Smith to Cary T. Grayson,” 1919 October 7, WWP15908, Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.