James S. Barron to Cary T. Grayson
Title
James S. Barron to Cary T. Grayson
Creator
Barron, James S.
Identifier
WWP16867
Date
1937 May 12
Description
James Barron invites Cary Grayson to stay with him and enjoy fishing if he comes down to North Carolina for a Red Cross meeting.
Source
Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia
Language
English
Text
Dear Cary
Colgate Darden just dropped in and said he saw you in Washington and they were trying to get you down here for a red cross meeting. I want you to come for that reason and then I want you to come down to see me. As I told you no one is at home but Kate and I and we have lots of room and would just love to have you, and if you would bring Mrs. Grayson it would be just that much better. We will treat you as members of the family and you can take the proverbial “pot luck”.
I was so sorry the boys did not get any fish. It was quite cool, especially at night, and the fish would not bite. When it gets warm there is going to be some good fishing and I have urged them to come again and I really mean it. The next time I am going to put them up at Commander Redfern’s fishing lodge and get up early in the morning with them and do some fishing, as bass bite best early in the morning. Redfern is a great friend of mine, retired from the navy some years ago for disability, has a cottage on the lake and is a great fisherman. He told me to extend to you a most cordial welcome as well as to the boys.
There have been a few blue fish at Oregon Inlet but a number of men who have been down have not had a bite. As you know they run in schools and some years they are there by the million and others there are none. Several parties have gone down from here and have not caught a one.
I understand you have to be in Washington practically all of this week. If they start to run I am going to call you up and see if you and Mr. Early cannot come down. I do not want you to have the luck that the boys did. It is well they were not running last week as a friend of mine, a brother member of the Bar, is in a terrible shooting scrape here and I have done nothing else for ten days but try and work out a solution of his problem and could not have gotten away. We decided on our course yesterday and I will be free until Monday week so far as that case is concerned.
I certainly want the boys to come back as I was delighted with them and they were not a bit of trouble or inconvenience to me and never will be. I also want you and Mr. Early to come but I want you to get some fishing when you do and that seems to be on the lap of the gods. Will call you up if I can get any favorable reports from Oregon Inlet.
Give William my warm regards and you have a nice son. Also wish you would tell Mr. Early that I was delighted with Steve and want him to come back again.
You will pardon a hastily dictated letter but this is the first evening I have had a chance to get out for golf for sometime and am trying to close up some things here at the office and get down.
Hastily but sincerely,
JS Barron
Colgate Darden just dropped in and said he saw you in Washington and they were trying to get you down here for a red cross meeting. I want you to come for that reason and then I want you to come down to see me. As I told you no one is at home but Kate and I and we have lots of room and would just love to have you, and if you would bring Mrs. Grayson it would be just that much better. We will treat you as members of the family and you can take the proverbial “pot luck”.
I was so sorry the boys did not get any fish. It was quite cool, especially at night, and the fish would not bite. When it gets warm there is going to be some good fishing and I have urged them to come again and I really mean it. The next time I am going to put them up at Commander Redfern’s fishing lodge and get up early in the morning with them and do some fishing, as bass bite best early in the morning. Redfern is a great friend of mine, retired from the navy some years ago for disability, has a cottage on the lake and is a great fisherman. He told me to extend to you a most cordial welcome as well as to the boys.
There have been a few blue fish at Oregon Inlet but a number of men who have been down have not had a bite. As you know they run in schools and some years they are there by the million and others there are none. Several parties have gone down from here and have not caught a one.
I understand you have to be in Washington practically all of this week. If they start to run I am going to call you up and see if you and Mr. Early cannot come down. I do not want you to have the luck that the boys did. It is well they were not running last week as a friend of mine, a brother member of the Bar, is in a terrible shooting scrape here and I have done nothing else for ten days but try and work out a solution of his problem and could not have gotten away. We decided on our course yesterday and I will be free until Monday week so far as that case is concerned.
I certainly want the boys to come back as I was delighted with them and they were not a bit of trouble or inconvenience to me and never will be. I also want you and Mr. Early to come but I want you to get some fishing when you do and that seems to be on the lap of the gods. Will call you up if I can get any favorable reports from Oregon Inlet.
Give William my warm regards and you have a nice son. Also wish you would tell Mr. Early that I was delighted with Steve and want him to come back again.
You will pardon a hastily dictated letter but this is the first evening I have had a chance to get out for golf for sometime and am trying to close up some things here at the office and get down.
Hastily but sincerely,
JS Barron
Original Format
Letter
To
Grayson, Cary T. (Cary Travers), 1878-1938
Files
Collection
Citation
Barron, James S., “James S. Barron to Cary T. Grayson,” 1937 May 12, WWP16867, Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.