Ray Stannard Baker to Cary T. Grayson
Title
Ray Stannard Baker to Cary T. Grayson
Creator
Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946
Identifier
WWP16739
Date
1933 July 20
Description
Ray Stannard Baker writes to Cary Grayson telling him that due to his health he is not able to travel, but that he will be delighted to meet with FDR.
Source
Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia
Language
English
Text
Dear Friend
I have just received your telegram. Delay, under the circumstances, is of course much better.
Curiously enough, I had intended before I received your letter to write or wire you. I have not been in very good condition this summer and the advice of my physician here in Amherst gave me considerable concern. I doubted my ability to go on with the biography, and so wrote to Mrs. Wilson. This of course is confidential. But I wanted to have you and your associates there look me over and check my local adviser so that I might feel a little surer as to what I could do in the future, if anything.
I should like it very much if you would make a date for me as soon as possible next week.
It will truly be a great pleasure to me to call on President Roosevelt. He wrote me about the time of his inauguration inviting me to come to Albany, but with the tremendous burdens resting upon him, and the pressure from people who really needed to meet him, I felt that, unless I could be of some real and immediate service, I ought not to take a moment of his time.
The administration thus far fairly takes one’s breath away. Each day’s paper has the absorbing interest of a new act in a stirring drama. There has certainly never been anything like it in our history. If Roosevelt will continue to hew to the line, he has an opportunity of achieving results for the country and making a place in history unrivaled by any of his predecessors. He is the first President who has been able to grasp the realities of our economic problems: and offer a solution based not upon doctrinaire theories, but upon democratic American practices. He has the people with him.
It will be a great personal pleasure and satisfaction to see you again, after this long time.
Cordially your friend,
Ray Stannard Baker
I have just received your telegram. Delay, under the circumstances, is of course much better.
Curiously enough, I had intended before I received your letter to write or wire you. I have not been in very good condition this summer and the advice of my physician here in Amherst gave me considerable concern. I doubted my ability to go on with the biography, and so wrote to Mrs. Wilson. This of course is confidential. But I wanted to have you and your associates there look me over and check my local adviser so that I might feel a little surer as to what I could do in the future, if anything.
I should like it very much if you would make a date for me as soon as possible next week.
It will truly be a great pleasure to me to call on President Roosevelt. He wrote me about the time of his inauguration inviting me to come to Albany, but with the tremendous burdens resting upon him, and the pressure from people who really needed to meet him, I felt that, unless I could be of some real and immediate service, I ought not to take a moment of his time.
The administration thus far fairly takes one’s breath away. Each day’s paper has the absorbing interest of a new act in a stirring drama. There has certainly never been anything like it in our history. If Roosevelt will continue to hew to the line, he has an opportunity of achieving results for the country and making a place in history unrivaled by any of his predecessors. He is the first President who has been able to grasp the realities of our economic problems: and offer a solution based not upon doctrinaire theories, but upon democratic American practices. He has the people with him.
It will be a great personal pleasure and satisfaction to see you again, after this long time.
Cordially your friend,
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,” 1933 July 20, WWP16739, Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.