Woodrow Wilson to Charles W. Eliot

My dear Doctor Eliot:

I appreciate the force of your argument for the Swiss system and you may be sure that nothing that you have written me has been overlooked. I have simply been obliged to devote so much of my time to public business that it has seemed almost impossible to answer the letters that I receive as well as read them.
If you were here, I think I could make you realize very vividly the elements I am dealing with and the impossibility which exists at present of bringing the Congress to the adoption of any sort of permanent system. When the time does come, if I am here to share in the solution of the question, you may be sure that the weighty arguments you have submitted to me will have my most serious consideration.
In haste, with great regret that I cannot return worthier replies to your letters,

Cordially and sincerely yours,
Woodrow Wilson


Dr, Charles W. Eliot,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.