Woodrow Wilson to John Sharp Williams

Title

Woodrow Wilson to John Sharp Williams

Creator

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Identifier

WWP18338

Date

1914 February 5

Description

Woodrow Wilson thanks John Sharp Williams for his earlier letter.

Source

Wilson Papers, Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, District of Columbia

Subject

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924--Correspondence

Text

My dear Senator

I greatly enjoyed your letter of January thirty-first about the impending inquisition. Your letter to Mr. Acree is admirable. You have taken him in just the right way.
Your letter contains delightful ridicule of the whole absurd business but, after all, there is a serious side to it. I think you cannot imagine how general, at any rate in its distribution throughout the country, this sort of thing is. Of course, I know how small a minority take any stock in it but it is distressing that such absolutely absurd ideas should find lodgement in any minds in America. If I could answer the letters that come to me as perfectly as you answered Mr. Acree, perhaps it would be an intellectual and literary amusement.

With the warmest regard.
Cordially and faithfully yours,
Woodrow Wilson


Hon. John Sharp Williams,United States Senate.

Original Format

Letter

To

Williams, John Sharp, 1854-1932

Files

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Citation

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924, “Woodrow Wilson to John Sharp Williams,” 1914 February 5, WWP18338, First Year Wilson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.