Woodrow Wilson to Cleveland H. Dodge

Mott's decision was a great blow to me. I don’t know when I have been so disappointed. This is a difficult road I am traveling in trying to get the finest men in the country to serve us at foreign posts. I can not tell you, my dear fellow, how much I have appreciated your own activity and generous interest in the matter or how much I appreciate your letter.
You need give yourself no concern about my being impressed with the claims of WT Ellis. I shall seek for a different sort of man. But, in the meantime, I would value more than I can tell you any suggestions from you as to men who ought to be considered.
Harry Fine has declined to stay in Germany altogether. I am a bit disheartened in this field.
It is fine to feel that we are working together again in great business.
In haste, with warmest regards from us all,