Ray Stannard Baker to Cary T. Grayson
Title
Ray Stannard Baker to Cary T. Grayson
Creator
Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946
Identifier
WWP16765
Date
1934 November 9
Description
Ray Stannard Baker asks Cary Grayson to confirm details about his promotion to Admiral.
Source
Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia
Language
English
Text
My dear Friend
I am enclosing an extract from an article written by Huston Thompson for the Dearborn Independent, relating to your appointment as Rear-Admiral. I wonder if you would check it over and see whether it is substantially correct -- especially the last grim comment that the President was “not averse to drawing off a little of that hot Navy blood that was running so high at the Army and Navy Club on election night.”
How are you this fall? I followed with some anxiety the reports of your experience at Rochester, Minnesota, and I have been glad to conclude, on the evidence of a picture of yours which I saw in the newspaper not long since, that you have entirely recovered. I hope that there will be no unfavorable after-effects.
I believe I am in better condition physically than I was a year ago. I found I worked excellently during last winter and spring and into the summer. After that I had a setback, a kind of exhaustion, and have not been in very good condition since. I am planning to go south again within a few weeks and I believe I shall be able to take hold again with my old vigor there.
I have been trying to live according to the Ten Commandments and the Fourteen Points laid down by you and Dr. Bolloedorn and I am certain that they have been of great value to me. Nevertheless I chafe and sometimes grow discouraged under my limitations. There is so much I want to do, friends I am anxious to see, places to visit, and cannot! I suppose it is more or less what one should expect as he gets along into the sixties, and he should learn to be philosophical about it, but I find it decidedly difficult, since my mind is as active as it ever was.
Since I saw you last fall I have materially advanced the work on the next volumes and I am in hopes that another good push will carry them to completion.
With warm personal regards, I am
Your friend,
Ray Stannard Baker
I am enclosing an extract from an article written by Huston Thompson for the Dearborn Independent, relating to your appointment as Rear-Admiral. I wonder if you would check it over and see whether it is substantially correct -- especially the last grim comment that the President was “not averse to drawing off a little of that hot Navy blood that was running so high at the Army and Navy Club on election night.”
How are you this fall? I followed with some anxiety the reports of your experience at Rochester, Minnesota, and I have been glad to conclude, on the evidence of a picture of yours which I saw in the newspaper not long since, that you have entirely recovered. I hope that there will be no unfavorable after-effects.
I believe I am in better condition physically than I was a year ago. I found I worked excellently during last winter and spring and into the summer. After that I had a setback, a kind of exhaustion, and have not been in very good condition since. I am planning to go south again within a few weeks and I believe I shall be able to take hold again with my old vigor there.
I have been trying to live according to the Ten Commandments and the Fourteen Points laid down by you and Dr. Bolloedorn and I am certain that they have been of great value to me. Nevertheless I chafe and sometimes grow discouraged under my limitations. There is so much I want to do, friends I am anxious to see, places to visit, and cannot! I suppose it is more or less what one should expect as he gets along into the sixties, and he should learn to be philosophical about it, but I find it decidedly difficult, since my mind is as active as it ever was.
Since I saw you last fall I have materially advanced the work on the next volumes and I am in hopes that another good push will carry them to completion.
With warm personal regards, I am
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,” 1934 November 9, WWP16765, Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.