F.R. McCoy to Benjamin Strong Jr.
Title
F.R. McCoy to Benjamin Strong Jr.
Creator
Strong, Benjamin, 1872-1928
Identifier
WWP18730
Date
1919 August 23
Description
F.R. McCoy writes Benjamin Strong Jr. regarding Strong's cancelled trip to Constantinople.
Source
Benjamin Strong Jr. Papers, New York Federal Reserve Bank
Language
English
Text
AMERICAN MILITARY MISSION TO ARMENIA
On Board S.S. Martha Washington,
Brest, France.
Dear Ben,
General Harbord and I were very much disapointed as we still had a strong hope that you would be able to join us, but this in no sense is a reflection on you because we appreciate your noble effort to accompany us and we still hope to have the benefit of your help. Please have Kent work up everything that you think advisable at the London and Paris end and join us at Constantinople if it can be arranged in reasonable time. If he cannot join we would appreciate the results of his work at this end on our return in October, when we can either see him personally or have the result of his work left at our disposition. In any case, please help up yourself and have him do it from this end by putting your Imperial Ottoman Bank people in Constaninople and any other financial people there like the English head of the Bank of Turkey, sympathetic toward us and ready to give us help and information, and I should also appreciate your talking to Leland Harrison and asking him to arrange to have Professor Elliott Mears work with us at Constantinople and put such information as he has at our disposition.
All this I ask without a flicker orf doubt in your ability or willingness and without hurting your own health or business and shall always regret that you could not go with us.
Give my best wish to Elliott Goodwin and tell him how much I regret to leave Paris without sitting in with him and you together.
On Board S.S. Martha Washington,
Brest, France.
Dear Ben,
General Harbord and I were very much disapointed as we still had a strong hope that you would be able to join us, but this in no sense is a reflection on you because we appreciate your noble effort to accompany us and we still hope to have the benefit of your help. Please have Kent work up everything that you think advisable at the London and Paris end and join us at Constantinople if it can be arranged in reasonable time. If he cannot join we would appreciate the results of his work at this end on our return in October, when we can either see him personally or have the result of his work left at our disposition. In any case, please help up yourself and have him do it from this end by putting your Imperial Ottoman Bank people in Constaninople and any other financial people there like the English head of the Bank of Turkey, sympathetic toward us and ready to give us help and information, and I should also appreciate your talking to Leland Harrison and asking him to arrange to have Professor Elliott Mears work with us at Constantinople and put such information as he has at our disposition.
All this I ask without a flicker orf doubt in your ability or willingness and without hurting your own health or business and shall always regret that you could not go with us.
Give my best wish to Elliott Goodwin and tell him how much I regret to leave Paris without sitting in with him and you together.
Original Format
Letter
To
Strong, Benjamin, 1872-1928
Files
Collection
Citation
Strong, Benjamin, 1872-1928, “F.R. McCoy to Benjamin Strong Jr.,” 1919 August 23, WWP18730, Benjamin Strong Jr. Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.