Cary T. Grayson to Alice Gertrude Gordon Grayson
Title
Cary T. Grayson to Alice Gertrude Gordon Grayson
Creator
Grayson, Cary T. (Cary Travers), 1878-1938
Identifier
WWP15548
Date
1918 December 23
Source
Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia
Text
Dear Sweetheart,
I am in receipt of a cable from Mr McAdoo saying that you are well which is very grateful news, indeed. I am terribly hungry for some news from you and Gordon. But, I am most thankful for these cable messages. Any time you phone to the White House a message will be sent me in code as they send me official news and otherwise nearly every day.
Tell Gordon I am very sorry not to be home to celebrate his first Christmas with him and also his first birth-day; but that I shall be with him and his dear, precious mother in spirit and heart.
I had lunch with A. Piett Andrew to-day who you know has been over here for four years. He was the most interesting man from a war viewpoint I have met. He is just back from visit over in Germany. It is almost incredible to believe the great ignorance the rank and file of the German people concerning the war—they are in ignorance of the horrible atrocities committed by their soldiers in Belgium—and France. They received no outside news concerning the war except the President’s speeches. They dared not try to keep them secret—and, Andrew—a Republican, thinks that his messages brought the Germans people to their minds and thus the war to an end. The German people are not hostile, to any marked degree, against the Americans, but intensely so, against the French and English. They are trying with all their might to make friends with us. The people of Germany look to President Wilson as their only hope for the future. They thought their army was unconquered and everything was in their favor. The Keiser & Crown Princeis a are things of the past with them.Andrew was so interesting, I thought of Randolph Cordoza several times during the conversation but did not get the word in.
I am busy every minute. Every one runs to me. As the President expressed it yesterday to Colonel House that whenever any one got some one with a request that they could not answer or handle for one reason or another; they passed the “buck on to G.” As a consequence my time is all taken up—I am feeling fine but am not getting enough exercise. We leave to-morrow for the front to spend Christmas day with the soldiers. The next day on to London etc. Paris is full of Americans—Good night, my love—
Your ever devoted—
CTG
I am in receipt of a cable from Mr McAdoo saying that you are well which is very grateful news, indeed. I am terribly hungry for some news from you and Gordon. But, I am most thankful for these cable messages. Any time you phone to the White House a message will be sent me in code as they send me official news and otherwise nearly every day.
Tell Gordon I am very sorry not to be home to celebrate his first Christmas with him and also his first birth-day; but that I shall be with him and his dear, precious mother in spirit and heart.
I had lunch with A. Piett Andrew to-day who you know has been over here for four years. He was the most interesting man from a war viewpoint I have met. He is just back from visit over in Germany. It is almost incredible to believe the great ignorance the rank and file of the German people concerning the war—they are in ignorance of the horrible atrocities committed by their soldiers in Belgium—and France. They received no outside news concerning the war except the President’s speeches. They dared not try to keep them secret—and, Andrew—a Republican, thinks that his messages brought the Germans people to their minds and thus the war to an end. The German people are not hostile, to any marked degree, against the Americans, but intensely so, against the French and English. They are trying with all their might to make friends with us. The people of Germany look to President Wilson as their only hope for the future. They thought their army was unconquered and everything was in their favor. The Keiser & Crown Princeis a are things of the past with them.Andrew was so interesting, I thought of Randolph Cordoza several times during the conversation but did not get the word in.
I am busy every minute. Every one runs to me. As the President expressed it yesterday to Colonel House that whenever any one got some one with a request that they could not answer or handle for one reason or another; they passed the “buck on to G.” As a consequence my time is all taken up—I am feeling fine but am not getting enough exercise. We leave to-morrow for the front to spend Christmas day with the soldiers. The next day on to London etc. Paris is full of Americans—Good night, my love—
Your ever devoted—
CTG
Original Format
Letter
To
Grayson, Alice Gertrude Gordon, 1892-1961
Files
Collection
Citation
Grayson, Cary T. (Cary Travers), 1878-1938, “Cary T. Grayson to Alice Gertrude Gordon Grayson,” 1918 December 23, WWP15548, Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.