Herbert Hoover to Joseph P. Tumulty
Title
Herbert Hoover to Joseph P. Tumulty
Creator
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Identifier
WWP19207
Date
1917 October 6
Description
Herbert Hoover replies to Tumulty regarding Miss DeNartick’s complaint about the Food Administration’s office building.
Source
Hoover-Wilson Correspondence, Hoover Institution, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, California
Publisher
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum
Subject
United States Food Administration
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964--Correspondence
Language
English
Text
Dear Mr. Tumulty
I am returning, herewith, the letter which you were good enough to send us from Miss DeNartick, who as you will note, gives no address or does she even take the trouble to sign her communication.
I have investigated the complaint she makes and can find no ground for her statement. Naturally, in creating an entirely new Department to cover work which has never been done before, we have had a pretty strenuous time and the spirit of our employees has been splendid.
However, we fully recognize that the facilities offered in attempting to convert a Hotel into an Office Building are not what anyone would accept from choice. We expect to be in our new building by December 1st, and we are taking steps to provide for the welfare of all of our employees.
If Miss DeNartick had given her address I would have been very pleased to have replied to her direct.
Faithfully yours,
[Hoover]
I am returning, herewith, the letter which you were good enough to send us from Miss DeNartick, who as you will note, gives no address or does she even take the trouble to sign her communication.
I have investigated the complaint she makes and can find no ground for her statement. Naturally, in creating an entirely new Department to cover work which has never been done before, we have had a pretty strenuous time and the spirit of our employees has been splendid.
However, we fully recognize that the facilities offered in attempting to convert a Hotel into an Office Building are not what anyone would accept from choice. We expect to be in our new building by December 1st, and we are taking steps to provide for the welfare of all of our employees.
If Miss DeNartick had given her address I would have been very pleased to have replied to her direct.
Faithfully yours,
[Hoover]
Original Format
Letter
To
Tumulty, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1879-1954
Files
Citation
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964, “Herbert Hoover to Joseph P. Tumulty,” 1917 October 6, WWP19207, Hoover Institute at Stanford University Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.