Woodrow Wilson to John Sharp Williams
Title
Woodrow Wilson to John Sharp Williams
Creator
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Identifier
WWP18338
Date
1914 February 5
Description
Woodrow Wilson thanks John Sharp Williams for his earlier letter.
Source
Wilson Papers, Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, District of Columbia
Subject
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924--Correspondence
Text
My dear Senator
Cordially and faithfully yours,
Woodrow Wilson
Hon. John Sharp Williams,United States Senate.
I greatly enjoyed your letter of January thirty-first about the impending inquisition. Your letter to Mr. Acree is admirable. You have taken him in just the right way.
Your letter contains delightful ridicule of the whole absurd business but, after all, there is a serious side to it. I think you cannot imagine how general, at any rate in its distribution throughout the country, this sort of thing is. Of course, I know how small a minority take any stock in it but it is distressing that such absolutely absurd ideas should find lodgement in any minds in America. If I could answer the letters that come to me as perfectly as you answered Mr. Acree, perhaps it would be an intellectual and literary amusement.
Cordially and faithfully yours,
Woodrow Wilson
Hon. John Sharp Williams,United States Senate.
Original Format
Letter
To
Williams, John Sharp, 1854-1932
Collection
Citation
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924, “Woodrow Wilson to John Sharp Williams,” 1914 February 5, WWP18338, First Year Wilson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.