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Title
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Cary T. Grayson Papers
Description
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The papers of Cary T. Grayson, personal physician and friend of Woodrow Wilson, came to the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library in 2005, initially as a loan. They were formally donated to the WWPL by the Grayson family in Dec. 2008. Additional gifts of papers were made by the Grayson family in succeeding years, which were eventually incorporated into the larger collection.
Compiled over Dr. Grayson’s colorful life, the collection covers every aspect of Grayson’s military service, career, family life, and personal interests. It is arranged in 13 series (listed below), many with their own finding aids. The largest series, Correspondence (40 linear feet), includes letters and other documents from thousands of individuals. It is clear that Dr. Grayson realized that he had a unique window on the historical events of his era, and he kept everything from seating charts and menus of state dinners to newspaper clippings and family calendars. He wrote diary entries while in Europe with President Wilson for the Paris Peace Conference and scribbled notes after the President was stricken with a stroke in 1919. The bulk of the papers date from 1907-1938, but the collection includes documents from as early as 1864 and as late as 2008.
Publisher
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Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
Format
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170 boxes, 8 binders of scanned documents, 2,110 pdfs
Language
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English
Type
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Archival Collection
Identifier
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MS000465
Date
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1864-2008
Creator
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Grayson, Cary T.
Source
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Seven grandchildren of Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson: W. Cabell Grayson, Jr., Katherine G. Wilkins, Leslie H. Grayson, George Grayson, Carinthia A. Grayson, Alicia G. Grayson, and Theodosia H. Grayson.
Gift made Dec. 12, 2008
Abstract
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The Cary T. Grayson Papers make up only one part of the larger Grayson Collection, which includes the papers of Cary’s wife, Alice Gertrude Gordon Grayson, as well as their children, William, Cary Jr., and Gordon. It also includes the papers of Alice’s second husband, George Leslie Harrison, who was president of the New York Federal Reserve, and her father, JJ Gordon, a successful 19th century entrepreneur.
Table Of Contents
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Series in Collection:
Articles and speeches
Biographical materials
Book collection
Certificates and awards
Correspondence
Diaries
Financial papers
Miscellaneous
Newspaper clippings
Periodicals
Phonograph records
Postcards
Subject
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Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Text
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19221204
Text
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Dear Mr. Baker<br /><br />My friend, Doctor Axson, whom you of course know, buried himself in his room last summer and has stayed buried pretty much ever since. Comparatively recently I found what he was up to – that he had got so infatuated with Abraham Lincoln that, as he says, he simply had to put some things down on paper. The result of it is a book, which is drawing near to completion, and which, in my opinion, is a gem. It is on new lines:In the first place, Doctor Axson is a Southerner, whose father fought in the Confederate Army, who himself was a child in the Reconstruction days in the South, and was partly educated in the South, but who, notwithstanding, has had for 25 years or more such adoration for Lincoln that at last he found himself compelled to write about him. In the second place, the book is not formal history but is a literary man’s treatment of biography and history. You perhaps know that Doctor Axson is a Professor of Literature – not of History. In the third place, it is a philosophic book. Doctor Axson has a distinct point of view about Lincoln as a combination of the popular idea of him, the familiar sort of man that everybody knew, and a man of such profound mystery that nobody ever can explain him. Doctor Axson remarked that if he thought he were explaining Lincoln he would tear up his manuscript. It is rather to impress the mystery than to explain Lincoln that he has written. In the fourth place, with all the admiration which the book expresses for Lincoln there is keen, critical analysis, which is what I would have expected from Doctor Axson’s naturally analytical mind. In the fifth place, it is philosophy of life, as well as of Lincoln, – the meditations of a man who has lived a good while and thought a great deal, and who has made Lincoln a medium through which to express a certain philosophy of individual and public life. Doctor Axson says that the hardest part of the writing has been to talk about profound things in a familiar way, and the result is that the book has solidity and charm. Ever since last June he has been spending about twelve hours aThe book is not a formal biography but a series of essays written in a conversational literary style – more the style I imagine in which literary critics write than historians. Yet behind it all is a solid body of information. Here is a new kind of book – literary in style, authentic in information. While it was not Dloctor Axson’s intention at all to write a biography of Lincoln, the fact is that anybody who reads his book is bound to feel that he has learned a great deal, not only about what sort of man Lincoln was but also what Lincoln actually did.<br /><br />Doctor Axson has been trying hard to compress the book into a small volume, and he hopes that he has not more than about 300 pages. He says that his problem has been “condensation and discursiveness”; that he has wanted to give the impression of one sitting down talking familiarly about Lincoln and telling the facts indirectly, or, as he says, “obliquely”. He calls his book “ENIGMATIC LINCOLN” – and the idea suggested by that title runs through the volume of the man of mystery behind the familiar every-day figure. What I think Doctor Axson has done is to write a profound book in a popular fashion.<br /><br />I am writing this letter voluntarily. Doctor Axson did not ask me to write to you. But I found that he was thinking of submitting the manuscript to Doubleday, Page & Company. As soon as I heard that I determined I was going to write to you and tell you that while of course I should be glad for my friend’s sake to have Doubleday, Page & Company accept the book, I honestly think I am doing them a favor in calling their attention to it.<br /><br />I have in mind what you said to me some time ago – that in case I myself at any time should writinge anything to be sure to get in touch with you. Some day I am going to do that, but, meanwhile, there has come up the case of Doctor Axson and his book, and I am writing to you about that in the same spirit in which you asked me to write you about my own matters.<br /><br />I should add, by the way, that Doctor Axson has been working specially feverishly, just recently saying that he must get his job finished before returning to Rice Institute at Houston, where he is due the first of January, for, he said, he was very anxious to submit his manuscript to Doubleday, Page & Company before starting South. My thought was that possibly you might pass this information on to Doubleday, Page & Company and arrange an interview between them and Doctor Axson. I do not hesitate to say this because I know that Doctor Axson was hoping that he might be able to arrange for an interview at the Garden City offices of Doubleday, Page & Company.<br /><br />With warm regards and best wishes, believe me to be<br /><br />Faithfully yours,<br /><br />Cary T. Grayson
To
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Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946
Original Format
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Letter
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Date
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1922 December 4
Title
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[Cary T. Grayson] to Ray Stannard Baker
Creator
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Grayson, Cary T. (Cary Travers), 1878-1938
Identifier
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WWP16456
Type
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Text
Language
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English
Source
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Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia
Format
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pdf file