Newton D. Baker to Ray Stannard Baker
Title
Newton D. Baker to Ray Stannard Baker
Creator
Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937
Identifier
WWP16706
Date
1932 January 9
Description
Newton D. Baker commends Ray Stannard Bakers’s work on Volumes 3 and 4 of the Life and Letters of Woodrow Wilson.
Source
Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia
Language
English
Text
Dear Mr. Baker
I have just finished Volumes 3 and 4 of the Life and Letters of Woodrow Wilson and must write you a word of grateful congratulation upon the sustained power and unfailing sense of proportion which you are preserving in this tremendous task. I can imagine no more exacting or difficult labor and to my mind you are growing stronger with it. Mr. Wilson’s family – official – will naturally have a very jealous eye upon any account of him, but as one of them I want you to know that you are satisfying even me!
Happily the real greatness of Mr. Wilson is beginning again to be appreciated and his name and fame have now started on their final journey upward to their permanent place in history. Your work accellerates the truth in its realization and gives the real Wilson back to his contemporaries.
Newton D. Baker
I have just finished Volumes 3 and 4 of the Life and Letters of Woodrow Wilson and must write you a word of grateful congratulation upon the sustained power and unfailing sense of proportion which you are preserving in this tremendous task. I can imagine no more exacting or difficult labor and to my mind you are growing stronger with it. Mr. Wilson’s family – official – will naturally have a very jealous eye upon any account of him, but as one of them I want you to know that you are satisfying even me!
Happily the real greatness of Mr. Wilson is beginning again to be appreciated and his name and fame have now started on their final journey upward to their permanent place in history. Your work accellerates the truth in its realization and gives the real Wilson back to his contemporaries.
Newton D. Baker
Original Format
Letter
To
Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946
Files
Collection
Citation
Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937, “Newton D. Baker to Ray Stannard Baker,” 1932 January 9, WWP16706, Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.