Maurice Francis Egan to Cary T. Grayson
Title
Maurice Francis Egan to Cary T. Grayson
Creator
Egan, Maurice Francis, 1852-1924
Identifier
WWP16123
Date
1919 December 28
Source
Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia
Language
English
Text
22 Prospect Park West
Brooklyn, NY
My Dear Admiral
One of the crosses of my present life is that the necessity of making a living forces me to stay a great part of the winter away from Washington, and the chance of seeing sympathetic people, like you and Mrs. Grayson; I met you at Senator Phelan’s, and, being an amateur of charming persons, I wanted to know you better.
Since the President’s illness, I have thought much of you,—and, an old man may say it, without suspicion of cant, prayed for you. What a burden you have borne, and what an unreasonably reasonable patient the President must be!—reasonable in his anxiety to work in these crises, but unreasonable in attempting to do so!
I am arranging a speech for the Knights of Columbus, which, I think will almost do that man of genius, justice. Of course, I do not like some of his appointments,—Bullitt’s and Steffins, for example; but, then, I am a conservative;—parties may be damned, I am for the President,—God bless him—If you get an opportunity, will you wish him a Happy New Year for me. I wonder what he, a hardened Presbyterian, would say, if he knew that Mrs. Egan and I had a Mass celebrated for his recovery. I do not think his father would have objected.
All is going well, I hope; I am not much of a democrat to regret that no peerages are conferred in our ungrateful Republic; but, if we were not so ungrateful, you ought to have one!
I am, wishing you and yours a Happy New Year,
Your
Maurice Francis Egan
Brooklyn, NY
My Dear Admiral
One of the crosses of my present life is that the necessity of making a living forces me to stay a great part of the winter away from Washington, and the chance of seeing sympathetic people, like you and Mrs. Grayson; I met you at Senator Phelan’s, and, being an amateur of charming persons, I wanted to know you better.
Since the President’s illness, I have thought much of you,—and, an old man may say it, without suspicion of cant, prayed for you. What a burden you have borne, and what an unreasonably reasonable patient the President must be!—reasonable in his anxiety to work in these crises, but unreasonable in attempting to do so!
I am arranging a speech for the Knights of Columbus, which, I think will almost do that man of genius, justice. Of course, I do not like some of his appointments,—Bullitt’s and Steffins, for example; but, then, I am a conservative;—parties may be damned, I am for the President,—God bless him—If you get an opportunity, will you wish him a Happy New Year for me. I wonder what he, a hardened Presbyterian, would say, if he knew that Mrs. Egan and I had a Mass celebrated for his recovery. I do not think his father would have objected.
All is going well, I hope; I am not much of a democrat to regret that no peerages are conferred in our ungrateful Republic; but, if we were not so ungrateful, you ought to have one!
I am, wishing you and yours a Happy New Year,
Your
Maurice Francis Egan
Original Format
Letter
To
Grayson, Cary T. (Cary Travers), 1878-1938
Files
Collection
Citation
Egan, Maurice Francis, 1852-1924, “Maurice Francis Egan to Cary T. Grayson,” 1919 December 28, WWP16123, Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.