Louis Seibold to Cary T. Grayson
Title
Louis Seibold to Cary T. Grayson
Creator
Seibold, Louis
Identifier
WWP16492
Date
1923 August 26
Description
Louis Seibold praises the articles that Cary T. Grayson has been writing regarding his experience as a White House physician and recommends further elaboration.
Source
Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia
Language
English
Text
Memo for Dr Grayson.
I think your article is sound, clearly written and comprehensively understandable.
If anything, it is too short, and in my judgement would stand considerable elaboration on these points:
1—Suggestions which to your mind would generally apply to Presidents in the matter of daily routine; that is adherence to a schedule of official undertakings which would provide a reasonable and necessary amount of relaxation, to take any form best suited to the individual requiremensts, and which shall be observed except in cases of emergency as rigidly as official demands.
2—The matter of diet best suited to the man between 45 and 60 whether he is President of the United States or the head of a great industrial machine, enumerating as far as possiblethe best classes or family groups of foods which will keep down or overcome any tendency toward the general and fundemental physical troubles of men engaged in this class of work
3—It would be mighty interesting if you deemed it wise to include more personal stuff relating to Taft, Roosevelt and Wilson, making it clear that you made specific studies of the characteristics of each of them and recommended a regimum in each case which if followed would have eliminated some of their physicial troubles.
4—I think it might pay to still further elaborate on the unnecessary exactions imposed by long trips like those which culminated in the breaking down of Mr Wilson and the death of Mr Harding. It seems to me that you could with ethical propriety include a few examples to prove your p the points which you have clearly established. For instance, some incident to show the effect of these trips on Taft, Roosevelt and Wilson, whether they occured to Taft on his roaming about, Roosevelt’s wanderings, or Mr Wilson’s pilgrimages both at home and abroad.
The point I am trying to make is that the more personal phases of the subject on which you are writing are presented the greater will be the value of the article itself.
I have already taken up the matter with some parties in New York. They are away at present but will return in a few days. I am going over to New York Wednesday and will personally discuss the matter with them and advise you by mail or upon my return which I think will be sometime next week. If you want to get in touch me with me during my absence a line to the Herald office at New York city will reach me. With best regards.
LS
I think your article is sound, clearly written and comprehensively understandable.
If anything, it is too short, and in my judgement would stand considerable elaboration on these points:
1—Suggestions which to your mind would generally apply to Presidents in the matter of daily routine; that is adherence to a schedule of official undertakings which would provide a reasonable and necessary amount of relaxation, to take any form best suited to the individual requiremensts, and which shall be observed except in cases of emergency as rigidly as official demands.
2—The matter of diet best suited to the man between 45 and 60 whether he is President of the United States or the head of a great industrial machine, enumerating as far as possiblethe best classes or family groups of foods which will keep down or overcome any tendency toward the general and fundemental physical troubles of men engaged in this class of work
3—It would be mighty interesting if you deemed it wise to include more personal stuff relating to Taft, Roosevelt and Wilson, making it clear that you made specific studies of the characteristics of each of them and recommended a regimum in each case which if followed would have eliminated some of their physicial troubles.
4—I think it might pay to still further elaborate on the unnecessary exactions imposed by long trips like those which culminated in the breaking down of Mr Wilson and the death of Mr Harding. It seems to me that you could with ethical propriety include a few examples to prove your p the points which you have clearly established. For instance, some incident to show the effect of these trips on Taft, Roosevelt and Wilson, whether they occured to Taft on his roaming about, Roosevelt’s wanderings, or Mr Wilson’s pilgrimages both at home and abroad.
The point I am trying to make is that the more personal phases of the subject on which you are writing are presented the greater will be the value of the article itself.
I have already taken up the matter with some parties in New York. They are away at present but will return in a few days. I am going over to New York Wednesday and will personally discuss the matter with them and advise you by mail or upon my return which I think will be sometime next week. If you want to get in touch me with me during my absence a line to the Herald office at New York city will reach me. With best regards.
LS
Original Format
Letter
To
Grayson, Cary T. (Cary Travers), 1878-1938
Files
Collection
Citation
Seibold, Louis, “Louis Seibold to Cary T. Grayson,” 1923 August 26, WWP16492, Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.