Ray Stannard Baker to Cary T. Grayson
Title
Ray Stannard Baker to Cary T. Grayson
Creator
Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946
Identifier
WWP15867
Date
1919 October 3
Source
Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia
Language
English
Text
Dear Admiral
Your letter of Nov. 19 reaches me, at last, here in Chicago, where I have been working hard on a new series of articles which I hope will shed some light on the present terrible industrial situation. I have been making as careful a study as I know how.
I had already sketched out the article about you and only awaited the material you send: so that I hope soon to forward a completed article. It’s a good subject!
The book made up of my articles on the President at the Peace Conference is just out. The publishers have made quick work with it. I’ll send on a copy from New York. I’ve had no end of letters about the articles, including many from the men who were at Paris and knew what was going on, and are glad that someone has setried to show what great work the President did while there. I was particularly pleased with a letter from Dean Haskins of Harvard. The American Historical Association has invited me to speak at their annual meeting during the Holidays in Cleveland, and I am going to open this subject still further there.
I’ve just read the President’s message to Congress and with strong approval of the paragraphs on labor. I am glad he came out straight and strong on the right to organize and on collective bargaining. He is on sure ground there. I wish I could have felt the President’s own strong hand all along in this Coal trouble!
Sincerely yours
Ray Stannard Baker
Your letter of Nov. 19 reaches me, at last, here in Chicago, where I have been working hard on a new series of articles which I hope will shed some light on the present terrible industrial situation. I have been making as careful a study as I know how.
I had already sketched out the article about you and only awaited the material you send: so that I hope soon to forward a completed article. It’s a good subject!
The book made up of my articles on the President at the Peace Conference is just out. The publishers have made quick work with it. I’ll send on a copy from New York. I’ve had no end of letters about the articles, including many from the men who were at Paris and knew what was going on, and are glad that someone has setried to show what great work the President did while there. I was particularly pleased with a letter from Dean Haskins of Harvard. The American Historical Association has invited me to speak at their annual meeting during the Holidays in Cleveland, and I am going to open this subject still further there.
I’ve just read the President’s message to Congress and with strong approval of the paragraphs on labor. I am glad he came out straight and strong on the right to organize and on collective bargaining. He is on sure ground there. I wish I could have felt the President’s own strong hand all along in this Coal trouble!
Sincerely yours
Ray Stannard Baker
Original Format
Letter
To
Grayson, Cary T. (Cary Travers), 1878-1938
Files
Collection
Citation
Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946, “Ray Stannard Baker to Cary T. Grayson,” 1919 October 3, WWP15867, Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.