Ray Stannard Baker to Cary T. Grayson
Title
Ray Stannard Baker to Cary T. Grayson
Creator
Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946
Identifier
WWP16059
Date
1919 October 30
Source
Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia
Language
English
Text
My dear Admiral
I was greatly pleased to have your letter of October 25th and to know that you liked the first of the articles. I hope you will find the others equally satisfactory. I have done my best to get them right and if you see anything in any of them in which you think I have rerred or over-stated or under-stated, you would do me a special favor by letting me know about it. I want to bring out the series in a small book as soon as I can and I want to make any possible changes before I read the final proofs.
I am going to enclose with this letter a copy of the sixth article in which I have made as careful a presentation of the Shantung settlement as I could work out. It also has some personal reference in it to the way the President worked, and to Mrs. Wilson, and finally there are a few concluding paragraphs in which I try to sum up the President’s service at Paris. I should particularly like to have you see that.
I have some idea of taking hold of the present industrial unrest in America for a number of articles. As you know, I spent almost a year before the opening of the Peace Conference in traveling around in England, France and Italy, studying the labor and radical movements there, so that I feel that I have quite a background in getting hold of the American situation in a big and broad way. And there has been no subject in America that I have been more interested in for the last twenty years.
If I decide to do this, it is probable that I shall be in Washington within the next week and if you have got over your heavy cares and responsibilities at the White House, even partially, I am going to call on you.
I was delighted to know directly from you that the President is getting along so well, and I am sure it is largely due to your own work that he has pulled through so magnificiently. The country owes you a lot--a mighty sight more than you will ever get out of it! I would like the President to know that he has had my deepest sympathy through all this trouble.
Very sincerely yours,
Ray Stannard Baker
I was greatly pleased to have your letter of October 25th and to know that you liked the first of the articles. I hope you will find the others equally satisfactory. I have done my best to get them right and if you see anything in any of them in which you think I have rerred or over-stated or under-stated, you would do me a special favor by letting me know about it. I want to bring out the series in a small book as soon as I can and I want to make any possible changes before I read the final proofs.
I am going to enclose with this letter a copy of the sixth article in which I have made as careful a presentation of the Shantung settlement as I could work out. It also has some personal reference in it to the way the President worked, and to Mrs. Wilson, and finally there are a few concluding paragraphs in which I try to sum up the President’s service at Paris. I should particularly like to have you see that.
I have some idea of taking hold of the present industrial unrest in America for a number of articles. As you know, I spent almost a year before the opening of the Peace Conference in traveling around in England, France and Italy, studying the labor and radical movements there, so that I feel that I have quite a background in getting hold of the American situation in a big and broad way. And there has been no subject in America that I have been more interested in for the last twenty years.
If I decide to do this, it is probable that I shall be in Washington within the next week and if you have got over your heavy cares and responsibilities at the White House, even partially, I am going to call on you.
I was delighted to know directly from you that the President is getting along so well, and I am sure it is largely due to your own work that he has pulled through so magnificiently. The country owes you a lot--a mighty sight more than you will ever get out of it! I would like the President to know that he has had my deepest sympathy through all this trouble.
Very sincerely yours,
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,” 1919 October 30, WWP16059, Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.