Cary T. Grayson to Bernard M. Baruch
Title
Cary T. Grayson to Bernard M. Baruch
Creator
Grayson, Cary T. (Cary Travers), 1878-1938
Identifier
WWP16821
Date
1936 February 20
Source
Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia
Language
English
Text
Dear Bernie
Steve and I returned safely in the midst of a blizzard - such a contrast to the sunshiny, delightful weather which you gave us. Our hearts were full of gratitude for all you did for us.
The President is enthusiastic about the party for Sunday, March 1st, and he has added to it the Vice President, Joe Robinson, and Carter Glass. He said he might have two more names to suggest later on, but he is in favor of keeping the group to the size where conversation can reach all the way around the table. He says, since it is a Democratic dinner, he wants everyone to come in working clothes - street clothes.
Watson is here talking to all classes of newspaper men, as you will note from the attached clippings: financial, social columns, and general news. He has described Steve’s inability to get more birds as due to the fact that he had a second rate gun that he got out of a pawn shop, and he says I went around wearing a horse blanket, thus referring to the beautiful bathrobe Morton Schwartz gave me. He boasts that he did most of the shooting and excelled as a marksman, and that your chief huntsman had to call out to him that he had not only gotten the limit, but that he must cease firing. He has evidently kept all of those birds you gave him, except a very few, and he has been very promiscuous in saying that you had given Steve and me enough birds to distribute to all of our acquaintances. At the reception at the White House night before last he would ask fellows like Harry Roosevelt if they got the birds that you gave Steve and me to give them. In brief, returning a day ahead of us, he has misrepresented us to all, from the President down.
Again many, many thanks for a most delightful visit. I feel like a new man as a result of it.
Affectionately,
Cary T. Grayson
Steve and I returned safely in the midst of a blizzard - such a contrast to the sunshiny, delightful weather which you gave us. Our hearts were full of gratitude for all you did for us.
The President is enthusiastic about the party for Sunday, March 1st, and he has added to it the Vice President, Joe Robinson, and Carter Glass. He said he might have two more names to suggest later on, but he is in favor of keeping the group to the size where conversation can reach all the way around the table. He says, since it is a Democratic dinner, he wants everyone to come in working clothes - street clothes.
Watson is here talking to all classes of newspaper men, as you will note from the attached clippings: financial, social columns, and general news. He has described Steve’s inability to get more birds as due to the fact that he had a second rate gun that he got out of a pawn shop, and he says I went around wearing a horse blanket, thus referring to the beautiful bathrobe Morton Schwartz gave me. He boasts that he did most of the shooting and excelled as a marksman, and that your chief huntsman had to call out to him that he had not only gotten the limit, but that he must cease firing. He has evidently kept all of those birds you gave him, except a very few, and he has been very promiscuous in saying that you had given Steve and me enough birds to distribute to all of our acquaintances. At the reception at the White House night before last he would ask fellows like Harry Roosevelt if they got the birds that you gave Steve and me to give them. In brief, returning a day ahead of us, he has misrepresented us to all, from the President down.
Again many, many thanks for a most delightful visit. I feel like a new man as a result of it.
Affectionately,
Cary T. Grayson
Original Format
Letter
To
Baruch, Bernard M. (Bernard Mannes), 1870-1965
Files
Collection
Citation
Grayson, Cary T. (Cary Travers), 1878-1938, “Cary T. Grayson to Bernard M. Baruch,” 1936 February 20, WWP16821, Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.