Ray Stannard Baker to Cary T. Grayson
Title
Ray Stannard Baker to Cary T. Grayson
Creator
Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946
Identifier
WWP16346
Date
1921 June 25
Description
Ray Stannard Baker asks Grayson if he has read Tardieu’s book commenting on Woodrow Wilson. He is starting work on his biography of Woodrow Wilson.
Source
Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia
Language
English
Text
My dear Admiral
Have you read Tardieu’s book? I see on page 185 that he calls the news regarding of the summoning of the George Washington by the President as being “mendacious” and to have been given out “in spite of Mr. House”. Well, you and I know how little mendacious it was!aAnd when I get to that point in this book I want to prove the case absolutely. I suppose the naval orders were issued by Admiral Benson and that we can get copies of them. I should like to pin the whole matter down with official records. Tardieu’s book is one of the slipperiest pieces of propaganda I ever read.
I can tell you I am mighty glad to be at home, although it cuts me off from an occasional meeting with you and Mrs. Grayson and such pleasant things as a drive out to the Zoo. But I am undeniably better here in health than I was there. For a week or ten days after I got home I was practically on the sick list, but I seem to be all right again now and the work is coming quite favorably. I have got eight or ten chapters pretty well out of the way and the other material is shaping up so that I think I can make pretty good progress from now on.
I hope Mrs. Grayson is well and that the new young man is as thrifty as his two brothers. Give Mrs. Grayson my best wishes.
Ray Stannard Baker
Have you read Tardieu’s book? I see on page 185 that he calls the news regarding of the summoning of the George Washington by the President as being “mendacious” and to have been given out “in spite of Mr. House”. Well, you and I know how little mendacious it was!aAnd when I get to that point in this book I want to prove the case absolutely. I suppose the naval orders were issued by Admiral Benson and that we can get copies of them. I should like to pin the whole matter down with official records. Tardieu’s book is one of the slipperiest pieces of propaganda I ever read.
I can tell you I am mighty glad to be at home, although it cuts me off from an occasional meeting with you and Mrs. Grayson and such pleasant things as a drive out to the Zoo. But I am undeniably better here in health than I was there. For a week or ten days after I got home I was practically on the sick list, but I seem to be all right again now and the work is coming quite favorably. I have got eight or ten chapters pretty well out of the way and the other material is shaping up so that I think I can make pretty good progress from now on.
I hope Mrs. Grayson is well and that the new young man is as thrifty as his two brothers. Give Mrs. Grayson my best wishes.
Ray Stannard Baker
Original Format
Letter
To
Grayson, Cary T. (Cary Travers), 1878-1938
Collection
Citation
Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946, “Ray Stannard Baker to Cary T. Grayson,” 1921 June 25, WWP16346, Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.