Benjamin F. Battin to Woodrow Wilson
Title
Benjamin F. Battin to Woodrow Wilson
Creator
Battin, Benjamin Franklin
Identifier
WWP25231
Date
1918 October 3
Description
Swarthmore professor expresses his pleasure at President Wilson's views on suffrage and discusses the chancellor of Germany.
Source
Library of Congress, Woodrow Wilson Papers
Publisher
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum
Subject
World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship Through the Churches
Max, Prince of Baden, 1867-1929
Mott, John R. (John Raleigh), 1865-1955
Contributor
Danna Faulds
Language
English
Provenance
Document scan was taken from Library of Congress microfilm reel of the Wilson Papers. WWPL volunteers transcribed the text.
Text
4420 Sansom Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
[My] dear President Wilson:-
Having held several conferences with Dr. W. P. Merrill and with Dr. J. R. Mott, including one yesterday with Dr. Mott, I write, in accord with thy suggestion, to request another interview with reference to my work abroad. Tonight I am starting for a tour of the Central Western States in connection with the campaign of the National Committee on the Churches and the Moral Aims of the War; but it will be a pleasure to come to Washington at thy convenience.
As I was about to write this note, my attention was called to the announcement in the evening paper of the appointment to the German Chancellorship of Prince Maximilian. I had a long and most enlightening conference with him, at first concerning the reciprocal treatment of prisoners of war by the German and English governments and then on the general political, social and economic questions of the war; and I consider him generations ahead of his people.
May I use this opportunity to express my pleasure that a solution [to] the liquor question has been reached, and my admiration of thy attitude on the question of suffrage.
Very truly thine,
Benjamin F. Battin
President Woodrow Wilson,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
[My] dear President Wilson:-
Having held several conferences with Dr. W. P. Merrill and with Dr. J. R. Mott, including one yesterday with Dr. Mott, I write, in accord with thy suggestion, to request another interview with reference to my work abroad. Tonight I am starting for a tour of the Central Western States in connection with the campaign of the National Committee on the Churches and the Moral Aims of the War; but it will be a pleasure to come to Washington at thy convenience.
As I was about to write this note, my attention was called to the announcement in the evening paper of the appointment to the German Chancellorship of Prince Maximilian. I had a long and most enlightening conference with him, at first concerning the reciprocal treatment of prisoners of war by the German and English governments and then on the general political, social and economic questions of the war; and I consider him generations ahead of his people.
May I use this opportunity to express my pleasure that a solution [to] the liquor question has been reached, and my admiration of thy attitude on the question of suffrage.
Very truly thine,
Benjamin F. Battin
President Woodrow Wilson,
Original Format
Letter
To
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Files
Collection
Citation
Battin, Benjamin Franklin, “Benjamin F. Battin to Woodrow Wilson,” 1918 October 3, WWP25231, World War I Letters, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.