MC Buckey to Cary T. Grayson
Title
MC Buckey to Cary T. Grayson
Creator
Buckey, MC
Identifier
WWP15732
Date
1919 April 21
Source
Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia
Text
Military Attache
American Embassy
Rome
Admiral Cary T. Grayson, MC, USNM
Care, Military Attache, American Embassy,
Paris, France
My dear Admiral:
The photographs that you sent me safely arrived this morning by courier, and also the 55 francs that closes our financial operations.
I receive with the greatest gratification and appreciation the picture of the President and His Majesty the King, which the President so kindly autographed for me. I request you - at the first opportune moment - to please express to the President my very deepest appreciation of his extreme courtesy to me in this matter.
To-morrow or next day I hope to have an audience with His Majesty the King, and then I expect to receive from His Majesty the King the five copies signed by him in return, for transmittal to the President.
I am enclosing in this letter to you an important letter to the President from Mr. Vance Thompson, whom the President knows. The subjectmatter of this letter, Mr. Thompson informs me, vitally concerns the Mexican situation, as it has to do with negotiations between the Vatican and Carranza for an immediate settlement of the four years’ old fight between them. Carranza has offered to grant, by constitutional amendment, religious liberty in Mexico in return for the support of the Church and the Catholic Mexican parties. The reason why Mr. Thompson desires this letter to be received personally by the President is because no decision of such vital importance to the future of Mexico should be made without the President’s having the fullest information thereof, and, if the President so desires, there will be an opportunity to meet in Paristhe Prelate who is officially authorized by the Vatican to act. Fearing that this Prelate may not be long in Paris, it is thought possible that the President might desire to see him personally, and receive at first hand the Vatican’s views and intentions in regard to this Mexican controversy, and Mexican affairs in general.
Monsignor Kelly leaves Rome to-morrow, April 22nd, and will arrive in Paris the next day. He is to be found at the Knights of Columbus headquarters in the Place de la Madeleine.
I am always
Very truly yours,
MC Buckey
American Embassy
Rome
Admiral Cary T. Grayson, MC, USNM
Care, Military Attache, American Embassy,
Paris, France
My dear Admiral:
The photographs that you sent me safely arrived this morning by courier, and also the 55 francs that closes our financial operations.
I receive with the greatest gratification and appreciation the picture of the President and His Majesty the King, which the President so kindly autographed for me. I request you - at the first opportune moment - to please express to the President my very deepest appreciation of his extreme courtesy to me in this matter.
To-morrow or next day I hope to have an audience with His Majesty the King, and then I expect to receive from His Majesty the King the five copies signed by him in return, for transmittal to the President.
I am enclosing in this letter to you an important letter to the President from Mr. Vance Thompson, whom the President knows. The subjectmatter of this letter, Mr. Thompson informs me, vitally concerns the Mexican situation, as it has to do with negotiations between the Vatican and Carranza for an immediate settlement of the four years’ old fight between them. Carranza has offered to grant, by constitutional amendment, religious liberty in Mexico in return for the support of the Church and the Catholic Mexican parties. The reason why Mr. Thompson desires this letter to be received personally by the President is because no decision of such vital importance to the future of Mexico should be made without the President’s having the fullest information thereof, and, if the President so desires, there will be an opportunity to meet in Paristhe Prelate who is officially authorized by the Vatican to act. Fearing that this Prelate may not be long in Paris, it is thought possible that the President might desire to see him personally, and receive at first hand the Vatican’s views and intentions in regard to this Mexican controversy, and Mexican affairs in general.
Monsignor Kelly leaves Rome to-morrow, April 22nd, and will arrive in Paris the next day. He is to be found at the Knights of Columbus headquarters in the Place de la Madeleine.
I am always
Very truly yours,
MC Buckey
Original Format
Letter
To
Grayson, Cary T. (Cary Travers), 1878-1938
Files
Collection
Citation
Buckey, MC, “MC Buckey to Cary T. Grayson,” 1919 April 21, WWP15732, Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.