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PPF 9
PRESIDENT'S PERSONAL FILE
Gifts B
Dec. 1942
PPF900096
43-165-1
THE
WHITE
HOUSE
WASHINGTON
President
Rus
December 1, 1942
15.7.
9-B
Dear Francis:
Ever so many thanks for having sent
to me that copy of "Goals For America" by
Stuart Chase. I am delighted to have it to add
to my collection and mm most appreciative of
your thought of me.
My best wishes to you.
Always sincerely,
Frankler D. Rosevant
The Honorable,
The Attorney General,
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Washington, D. C.
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December 1, 1942
Dear Francis:
Ever SO many thanks for having sent
to me that copy of "Goals For America" by
Stuart Chase. I am delighted to have it to add
to my collection and am most appreciative of
your thought of me.
My best wishes to you.
Always sincerely,
(Sgd) FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The Honorable,
The Attorney General,
Washington, D. C.
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43-165-1
THE
WHITE
HOUSE
WASHINGTON
November 30, 1942
Add
Dear Mr. Bonsal:
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Mr. Hopkins has shown the
President your letter with the enclosed
copy of letter, which the President sent
to you on January eighteenth, 1916. The
President feels that you should keep the
original of this letter but he is delighted
to have the photostatic copy for the Library.
He sends his grateful thanks and
every best wish to you.
Very sincerely yours,
GRACE G. TULLY
Private Secretary
Stephen Bonsal, Esq.,
3142 P Street, Northwest,
Washington, D. C.
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43-165-1
3142 P STREET, NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, D. C.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
iton Post the enclosed clip-
5 on the Caribbean problem,
Indian minded when XXXXX
November 21, 1942
were ignored by the great
; of the letter which Mr.
1916 which confirms this
MEMORANDUM FOR MISS TULLY:
is own hand ,doubtless no
WILL YOU SHOW THIS TO THE
t with regret as the letter
PRESIDENT?
I should turn the original
H.L.H.
d in the interst of history
I do not think I would
that Mrs Hopkins' distin-
The Caribhean wore of
she of
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Oct.28th,/42.
3142 P STREET, NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, D. C.
My dear Mr Hopkins ;
Reading in the Washinton Post the enclosed clip-
ping ,setting forth the President's views on the Caribbean problem,
reminded me of the fact that he was West Indian minded when XXXXX
those beautiful but unfortinate Islands were ignored by the great
men of that day and I enclose a photostat of the letter which Mr 0
Roosevelt was good enough to write me in I9I6 which confirms this
statement
As the letter is a personal one ,and in his own hand ,doubtless no
copy was retained I have thought ( I admit with regret as the letter
is one of my most cherished possessions ) I should turn the original
over to you for the Hyde Park Library and in the interst of history
I offer to make that personal sacrifice 0 I do not think I would
venture this intrusion but for the fact that Mrs Hopkins' distin-
this is The title of my book about the Caribhean wore of
which had were in centy publiche of
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2.
3142 P STREET, NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, D. C.
guished grandfather ,General John Gill ,was my kindly guardian in
my heyday and always treated me as a member of his charming family
Sincerely yours
Stephen Bonsal.
this is The title of my book about the Caribhean wore of
which had were re centy publiche of
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***X
AVY.
Roosevelt Considers
Jan. 18th - 1916 a
Aid to West Indies
to see you again before II go to
Improved Economic and Social Conditions
I want to tell you that I have
For Islanders Is Subject of Conference
ve learned much that will be of use
took eyes off the war
President his Roosevelt yesterday long added that he hoped any
enough to give attention to the al-
most universal poverty that
include improving conditions would plan also for
npanions de voyage
French islands.
flourishes amid the unbelievable
tropical beauty of West Indian
islands He described conditions in
felt for as pathetic, said he the
e have simply got to control those
island colonies of the United States
and other nations.
to be years that something had
plained done for the isladers ought
The President. whose Caribbean
ds that while he believed and ex-
the better The next step is to
knowledge of living conditions in
cruises have provided first-hand
unly in he did not have self-gov- political
hent, should have more the
the islands, conferred on the prob-
S mind for them.
- I shall tell you all about it
lem with Sir George Gater, perma-
nent undersecretary of the British
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the colonial office. and Charles Taussig,
t back
mission. Anglo-American Caribbean Com-
United States chairman of the
I
Very sincerely yours
the have been under way for a
The purpose of studies which
0
и
Franklin D. Roosevelt
President told his press year,
7
ference, is to weld the islands con- into
the benefit of the impoverished in-
an economic and social team for
habitants of all of them.
This is The title of my hools about the Parihhean wore of
which had here ice centy publiche of
Education, Voting
starter, Mr. Roosevelt said, be
he extended to voteless inhabitants be
As believed a the franchise might
instituted. and Island social systems. very
compulsory education might
stated, need to undergo the
marked he improvements with eco-
islands as a whole put on an them
self-sustaining, better's world
that will enable con-
economy Roosevelt conceded that is-
economic lands probably could not
Mr. improvement of the be
achieved without some investment, would
he said, that investment cer-
but. be repaid, if not in dollars,
tainly in higher living standards.
As an example of what stated might that be
done. while of exported there said, get dent their Some the decent because continued, is cattle food the islands, no of to refrigeration. meat supplies President may the other it the can't islands, be must on islands meat raised the from be buy islands, cannot kept. the You on economy. long because most Presi- some can't dis- be he of
tances,
which
is
not
good
Some Excepted
The President excepted from his
future economic team Cuba, Puerto
Rico and Haiti which. he observed,
have larger populations and dis-
similar economic and social prob-
lems. He listed the United States,
Great Britain, the Netherlands,
enezuela and Colombia as pos-
ors of some of the islands. He
THE ASSISTANT WASHINGTON SECRETARY OF THE
sorry
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The
Rico a future SJA
have
similar
lems.
He
THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.
WASHINGTON
Jan. 18th - 1916 a
Dear Mr Bonsal ;
I am sorry not to see you again before 1I go to
the American Mediterrenean * but I want to tell you that I have
greatly enjoyed the book and have learned much that will be of use-
I am taking it along for my companions de voyage
.
Incidentally we have simply got to control those
islands as a whole -the sooner the better 0 The next step is to
purchase the Dutch interests : - I shall tell you all about it
when I get back .
Very sincerely yours
Franklin D. Roosevelt :
this is The title of my hools about The Caribhean wore of
which had here re centy publiche of
the
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December 3, 1942
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PPF-9-B
THON, Dr. Henry
Detroit, Mich.
Ackd. Nov. 30, 1942.
INSURANCE
FOR
ROSEMBER
Sends inscribed booklet to the President; to study.
of
the
entilled
letter
ilo
SEE: PPF 9-T
and book from Dr. Goodfruy Sourne, of London,
and them to us?
Grace G. Tally
Private Secretary
Dr. Denificy Bourne
47 Choco Active Street
Devendish Sequare
W. 1. (London)
Dr. Bourne asks the President to accept this specially bound 007 of his small
book "Return to Reason"; deals with what be believes to be OF the fundamental
factors in operative democrecy.
En Dec. 3, 1942 Mr. Susmer sent ISSUED to Miss Tully with which No returned
the original Inc. and from In. Bourne.
Mr. Sbon correspandence and book to Eyste Park Minute, Series B.
the
December 3, 1942
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November 17, 1942
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MEMORANDUM FOR HONORABLE GEORGE T. SUMMERLIN:
Will you not be good enough to have
acknowledgment made of the enclosed letter
and book from Dr. Geoffrey Bourne, of London,
and return them to us?
Grace G. Tully
Private Secretary
dd
Dr. Geoffrey Bourne
47 Queen Anne Street
Cavendish Square
W. I. (London)
Dr. Bourne asks the President to accept this specially bound copy of his small
book "Return to Reason"; deals with what he believes to be one of the fundamental
factors in operative democracy.
On Dec. 3, 1942 Mr. Summerlin sent memo to Miss Tully with which he returned
the original let. and book from Dr. Bourne.
Mrs. Eben sent original correspondence and book to Hyde Park Library, Series B.
Fill the
April
December 3, 1942
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PPF
9-B
WILLIAM MORROW AND COMPANY INC.
New York, N.Y.
December 3, 1942 - Ackd.
Sent the President copy of book, THERE GO THE SHIRS. To the Study.
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December 3, 1942
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9-B
THE SOUTHWORTH-ANTHOENSEN PRESS
Portland, Maine
December 2, 1942 - Ackd.
Sent the President copy of the book THE CLUB OF ODD VOLUMES YEAR BOOK-1942.
Sent to the Study.
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File whit the
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December 3, 1942
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PPF
WINSLOW, Mrs. L. Lanier
9-B
Sarasota, Florida
November 16, 1942
Transmitted by Mr. Summerlin, State Department on 11/23/42, a letter en-
closing volune entitled "The Spirit of '76" which was written by her Father.
Acknowledged by the President on 12/1/42 saying he is grateful for the gift. Book
sent to the Study.
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the
Braket.
p.p.7.
December 3, 1942
q-B
My dear Mr. Bours:
Permit me to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of the copy of your booklet which you
sent to the President. I can assure you
that he is most appreciative of your kind
thought of him.
Very sincerely yours,
M. H. McINTYRE
Secretary to the President
Reverend W. M. Bours,
1810 Sacramento Street,
San Francisco,
California.
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Book: MOTHERHOOD.
KN DONDS
AND STAMPS
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ADDRESS OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS T
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
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Motherhood
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In reply re
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By
My de
REV. WILLIAM M. BOURS
Diocese of California
1895 1942
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1942,
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thanks
Enclosures:
Chief of Protocol
Original letter from
Dr. Geoffrey Bourne,
October 2, 1942, with
enclosure.
FORDEFENSE
Miss Grace G. Tully,
BUY
UNITED
STATES
The White House.
SAVINGS
BONDS
AND STAMPS
Compliments of the author.
-1279
Motherhood
WITH ILLUSTRATIVE BIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES
AND COMMENTS
B
By
REV. WILLIAM M. BOURS
Retired since May 1, 1933
Rector for eight years of the old-time St. Peter's Parish at
North Beach, San Francisco, preceded by a three years' resi-
dential charge of the Missions at Merced and Madera, now
of the District of San Joaquin, and an eleven months' Assist-
antship at the Cathedral Mission of the Good Samaritan.
Bishop's Secretary and a Cathedral Staff Missionary for twelve
years and for seven of those years also in a non-residential
charge of the Holy Innocents Mission at Corte Madera in the
Convocation of San Francisco. Chaplain to the public insti-
tutions of San Francisco for twenty-two years, of which
,
years the last five also included a hospital pastorate of The
San Francisco Church Federation. Chaplain Emeritus of the
Relief Home for Aged and Infirm. Chaplain to the Bishop
of California since November 5, 1919, and by successive
annual Episcopal appointments to membership in The Di-
ocesan Committee on The Church Pension Fund since the
Christmas Eve of Anno Domini 1920.
S
Christmastide, A.D. 1942
San Francisco, California
Enclosures:
Chief of Protocol
Original letter from
Dr. Geoffrey Bourne,
October 2, 1942, with
enclosure.
FORDEFENSE
Miss Grace G. Tully,
BUY
UNITED
STATES
The White House.
SAVINGS
BONDS
AND STAMPS
1279
Motherhood
B
As a preface to these notes on motherhood the writer
takes the liberty of offering a tribute of grateful mem-
ory to parental benefaction as being among the earliest
domestic impressions of his childhood that, by reason
of an extreme smallness and delicacy of physical consti-
tution at birth, he was not expected, now over eight
decades ago, to survive even to the youngest stage of
boyhood.
It would be well during the morning of one's life to
personalize as a votive impulse the following admoni-
tion of Israel's Psalmist:
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; a
good understanding have all they that do thereafter;
his praise endureth for ever.
See, also, Psalm XCI.
The late Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco said,
"Give me a child until its thirteenth year, and I don't
care who has it after that."
My mother, Louisa Falkenberg Bours, born in Lima,
Peru, South America, was not much more than a very
young woman when I was born as the second child: the
first did not survive. She could speak English, Spanish,
French and German, was a pianist and could sing
musically, and withal was a self-sacrificing religious
devotee to the domestic arts that go to make a family
home. Her father was a genius in mechanical construc-
S
tion and a great lover and conservator of good music.
He had so synchronized by mechanical connections
several music-boxes with the clocks in his family home
Enclosures:
Chief of Protocol
Original letter from
Dr. Geoffrey Bourne,
October 2, 1942, with
enclosure.
FORDEFENSE
Miss Grace G. Tully,
BUY
UNITED
The White House.
STATES
SAVINGS
BONDS
AND STAMPS
1279
4
MOTHERHOOD
MOTHERHOOD
5
that every hour different tunes were severally played
mercial banking with an older brother under the firm
by one in succession to the others.
name of T. Robinson Bours and Company; later that
My mother was constantly during her earliest years
institution was incorporated as The San Joaquin Val-
under the affectionate care and direction of a devoted
ley Bank, of which my father was the cashier. In the
B
artistic mastership in her father and of a beloved home-
course of that business he was in frequent correspon-
dence with the renowned General William T. Sherman,
maker in her mother.
who was in those days engaged in the banking business
My emergence into young manhood was likewise
in Sacramento. As to official civic responsibility, my
blessed by a recall of memory to the sacredness of my
father had been the Mayor of Stockton. Incidentally
mother's sense of domestic solidarity. "As a hen gather-
it may be recorded that it was his custom in business
eth her chickens under her wings" my mother, on
matters never to write a leter under provocation and
an occasion of great family sorrow, gathered her chil-
to mail it on the day on which it was written. He would
dren about her to read to them the soul-sustaining
sleep on the matter overnight with the likelihood of
messages in the Fourteenth Chapter of St. John's
that letter being entirely amended next morning.
Gospel.
In earlier days with his older brother, my father
The Apostle Paul recorded the churchmanship of
helped a younger man, my uncle, the Rev. William
womanhood in his Epistles to the Corinthians as well
White Bours, named after the first Bishop of Penn-
as of the family in Ephesians and Colossians and in his
sylvania, to prepare for the Sacred Ministry. That uncle
Epistles to Timothy specialized the family as the House-
of mine was stricken at the bedside of one of his parish-
hold of Faith. (See, also, Romans XVI:3; and 13-18.)
ioners in Florida during an outbreak of a fatal epi-
demic. The law of a cherished association of ideas
In honor of the managerial functions of womanhood,
impels the writer likewise to record the ensuant memo-
as applicable to missionary legislation, the outstanding
rial of regard for one of his former parochial officers,
services of the Woman's Auxiliary in conjunction with
Mr. Archibald C. Kains, who had joined with others
the House of Churchwomen are notable in California
in a financial assistance toward the completion of an
History. (See Psalm LXVIII:9-11 P. B. V.)
academic course of study in preparation for the Sacred
My father, Benjamin Walker Bours, born in the
Ministry of a greatly beloved fellow college student,
State of New York, was considerably older than my
who became that distinguished Missionary Statesman,
mother when they were married in the pioneer days
the late Bishop Charles Henry Brent.
of California. He was a graduate of the Van Renseller
My father became a Vestryman of his home parish,
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Polytechnic Institute of his native state as a civil engi-
St. John's Church in Stockton, then in the Diocese of
neer, but did not long practice that profession. On
California. When Bishop Kip was wont regularly to
coming to California he was mostly engaged in com-
visit Stockton in the order of his extensive list of
Enclosures:
Chief of Protocol
Original letter from
Dr. Geoffrey Bourne,
October 2, 1942, with
enclosure.
FORDEFENSE
Miss Grace G. Tully,
BUY
UNITED
The White House.
STATES
SAVINGS
BONDS
AND STAMPS
1279
MOTHERHOOD
MOTHERHOOD
7
ntments, my father took me, then as a small boy,
In view of the forthcoming responsibilities at the
with him on that Bishop who had confirmed my
legal age of maturity, the goal of every youth should
and afterwards in due time confirmed the
be, as a legalized voter, the upholding throughout the
Bishop Kip's fine manhood and family lineage
land of social righteousness. The following Collect
B
him an outstanding personality in those early
for Independence Day, July 4th, contains a petition
with a responsibility for the Episcopal Oversight
that every citizen should employ:
entire State of California.
O Eternal God, through whose mighty power our
Kip of Albany and Yale won my abiding
fathers won their liberties of old; Grant, we beseech
of him, as a man among men, for his
thee, that we and all the people of this land may have
accomplishments as a preacher and an author
grace to maintain these liberties in righteousness and
peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
were adorned by his administrative visions for
Diocese of California-never canonically a Mis-
The rewards of experience justify the following
District as the State itself never was histori-
postulates:
a Territory-which, by the constructive ecclesi-
Domestic training gives character to economic
workmanship of his successors in Episcopal
occupations. Administrative sufficiency is a solo
inistration, have been materialized in the noble
managerial accomplishment. The choice of capable
and foundations of our Grace Cathedral in
employees accords with one's own competency. The
Francisco. Bishop Kip had localized his Episcopal
keeping of good employees goes along with what one
in the fine old-time Gothic Parish Grace
is as a man or as a woman. The economic devices
next door to the Diocesan Offices, then an-
that characterize a normality of progress in civiliza-
to April 18, 1906, on California Street at
tion are vital to general social welfare. Money, as a
Street, in the City of San Francisco.
medium of exchange, in trade or investment for
equitable profit, as an historic example, American
ward the close of his Episcopate Bishop Kip,
coin, which bears on its face a stamp of godliness:
lost his full eyesight, yet as with a faithfulness
"In God we trust," is one of the necessities for a self-
death, at the ordination of his grandson and
respecting, progressive and neighborly citizenship.
someone had to place his Episcopal Hands
Compare St. Matthew XIII:24-32; I Timothy VI.
faithful son of the Church for the bestowal
Every man should make his major well considered
Ecclesiastical Gifts of Holy Orders that he
responsibility the one for which he was selected to
thereby become a vicar for his revered grand-
undertake. An extensive diffusion of time and energy
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There is a nobility in manhood that every
leads to a superficiality of accomplishment. One of
should be encouraged to honor.
the most inimical of the microbes that make for social
Enclosures:
Chief of Protocol
Original letter from
Dr. Geoffrey Bourne,
October 2, 1942, with
enclosure.
FORDEFENSE
Miss Grace G. Tully,
BUY
UNITED
The White House.
STATES
SAVINGS
BONDS
AND STAMPS
1279
MOTHERHOOD
MOTHERHOOD
9
may be characterized as political exbibi-
clared, that one can always find a noise to torment
Amen is a worshipful period to religious
every nerve in the human body, it would be well in
rather than a slogan in economic policy.
early life to become inured to the wear and tear of
LXXXIX; compare Romans XVI; I Corin-
commonplace social experience.
XIV.) The man for the times is one, who, in
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strative capacity, is a providential factor at any
To revert to the wholesome quietude of that primi-
tive home, incident to location and to the traditions
of long ago, that family haven was built of heavy
My First Christmas Tree
timber that had come around "The Horn," probably
first Christmas tree has not faded in its mem-
in a sailing vessel. That first Christmas tree ranks
beauty after many years since the later days
among the earliest definitely impressed incidents of a
The old-time home of my childhood in
congenital retentive and affectionate memory. The
California, was a sturdy, roomy and com-
landmarks of that Christmas Season were connected
structure and aloof from the disturbances of
with the very structure of that prioneer building,
noise. The association of ideas as an ally
which included wide encircling verandas and win-
mory suggests a looking back to the days of
dows to match architecturally for well lighting the
before so many of the humanized functions
two stories. The lower floor in front included what
replaced by machinery. It was said of Glad-
was then called the sitting-room, connected with the
whose historic statesmanship was founded on a
parlor by two large wooden doors on hinges. That
legree of cultured mentality, that he could add
parlor was well furnished for substantial comfort and
four columns of figures as readily as any
contained a piano, also that epochal Christmas tree.
can attain the total of a single column by
My father being a great reader of standard literature,
process of addition up and down. The
the sitting-room contained a fine bookcase of Angli-
types of mechanized substitutes for per-
can literature, and the walls were ornamented with
itness in the practice of the business of life can
pictures of which one was a steel engraving of
a deprivation of the young of those environ-
"Shakespeare and His Friends."
opportunities in commerce or in art for a
My mother was occupied in the sitting-room and
of that morale which is characteristic of the
I, as a diminutive specimen of humanity, was on the
hat are becoming mere matters of pioneer
floor beside her. My father had entered the parlor by
The consequences of unemployment are not
one of those veranda windows to light the candles on
compared with the prejudicial consequences to
the Christmas tree; he then rattled one of the win-
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of the mechanizing of the domiciles of
dows with his fingers in sound like a galloping deer,
While it is true, as Charles Dickens de-
whereupon my mother remarked, "Oh, there comes
Enclosures:
Chief of Protocol
Original letter from
Dr. Geoffrey Bourne,
October 2, 1942, with
enclosure.
FORDEFENSE
Miss Grace G. Tully,
BUY
UNITED
The White House.
STATES
SAVINGS
BONDS
AND STAMPS
-1279
MOTHERHOOD
MOTHERHOOD
11
Claus!" Startled, with one flying leap I landed
As a prologue of appreciative consideration, which,
mother's lap. The doors were opened, and
of course, antedates even the possibility of a dawning
with wide open mouth as well as delighted
memory, my Aunt Julia, my mother's sister, of the
gazed in silent wonder at the brilliant beauty
Nathan K. Mastens of South Park [one of the finest
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well laden with tokens of family bounty and
of the earliest residential locations in San Francisco-
and, by the way, Bishop Kip then lived on Rincon
Annual Season of Glory to God in the Highest
Hill in that general section of the city] baptized me
earth peace and good-will toward men, evan-
in a bucket of hot water when, being in convulsions,
considered and regarded, brings to the fore
I was seemingly in a dying condition. My father gave
best in one's life. A recall to the motherhood
me as my Christian name Willie Masten. That same
blessed the days of one's youth with that of the
aunt some years later, when my mother and I were
anionship of one's home-making wife helps to
on a visit to South Park, took me to town with her.
that best in any man's life apt and meet for a
We had walked to Third Street. The small car, pro-
enship in both heaven and on earth. Compare
pelled by horse power, stopped to take us on as pas-
CXIII:
sengers. Doubtless impelled by a delighted sense of
Praise ye the Lord. Praise, O ye servants of the Lord,
novelty, I immediately started to jump on that car,
praise the name of the Lord.
whereupon my aunt shouted, "Ladies first." Accord-
7,
Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth
ingly, I hopped off and to the present time I have
and for evermore.
been actuated by that admonition, "Ladies first."
From the rising of the sun unto the going down of
As to men generally, it is more than to memorialize
the same the Lord's name is to be praised.
The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory above
merely casual notes of historic interest to record that,
the heavens.
like in the case of St. Augustine as evangelized by his
Who is like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on
mother, Monica, Alfred, King of England, owed his
well deserved title to "Greatness" to having had "an
Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are
excellent mother." Regarding the native source of
heaven, and in the earth!
personal competency, see Psalms CXLIV-CL. More-
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth
over, there are realities in spiritual experience that
he needy out of the dunghill;
prove the nearness of this world to the borderland of
That he may set bim with princes, even with the
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rinces of his people.
Heaven, compare II St. Peter I with St. Luke IX:
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to
28-36; consider Psalm LXXXIX:15-21. See, also,
a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord.
Psalm XXVII.
Enclosures:
Chief of Protocol
Original letter from
Dr. Geoffrey Bourne,
October 2, 1942, with
enclosure.
FORDEFENSE
Miss Grace G. Tully,
BUY
UNITED
STATES
The White House.
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The Benicia School Days
On a notable occasion during "Study Hour," the
in a prolixity of detail the story of my
headmaster caused me to sit by him on the platform
would include an account of maladies
and perilously near a "birch-rod" that he was wont
beset the days of a not over physically
to use otherwise than as a pointer in the elucidation
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childhood. I well remember that when a
of geometrical diagrams on the blackboard.
specialist, to whom my mother had
The Rector of the Benicia Parish during those days
on examining my eyes, turned and said
was the Rev. Dr. James Lloyd Breck, one of the
Did you ever notice his eyes when he was
Church's great company of pioneer missionaries. My
abiding impression of him is that he was a singular
for the benefit of a brief change of cli-
man in the pulpit, tall and with a characteristic
writer was entered as a pupil at St. Augus-
physique of an able administrator and of a definitely
School for Boys at Benicia, California.
attractive personality. The influence of such a Chris-
ckinson was the commandant of the school,
tian pastor is immortal as a founder and builder of
McCracken, the commander of the corps
the Kingdom of God. It is the man that counts in
The Reverend Mr. Cowen was the head-
whatever position be may be called to occupy.
In what high regard was held by my father the
to the poignant griefs that are apt to
Reverend Elias Birdsall of Nashotah House, one of
17,
one's self-possession, there is nothing human
Stockton's notable Rectors! In every sense he could
exceed the pangs of homesickness. An older
be called Father Birdsall without any suggestion of
boy, Fletcher Nye, took charge of me that
pretense; he was an interpretative reader and preacher,
be-forgotten first night after my father had
one whose character shone as an example for his
good-bye most affectionately to a degree
ne,
people. He gave his son, Paul, to the Sacred Ministry.
pain, to take the steamer back to Stock-
In his personal affairs he had proven that common-
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afterwards Fletcher was my friend and
place simplicity is not incompatible with official dig-
In due time I was assigned to sentinel
nity, as when he was seen trudging on foot along a
of the dormitories and given a musket
Stockton street and leading his trusty horse as to a
bayonet twice too large for a "soldier"
blacksmith's shop to be reshod.
to handle. The only deadly military ser-
a
The cosmopolitanism of such a school as Saint
rendered was to parole the dormitory and
Augustine's as a follow-up of home influence which
down to destruction with that bayonet on
enlivens a mutuality of social responsibility helps to
t's
march, the lamp chimneys. Perchance the
bulwark the very framework of a nationality that
of the Guard was amiable enough to gather
upholds the elements in a state of law and order,
of
glass.
which is germane to its federal physical existence.
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Original letter from
Dr. Geoffrey Bourne,
October 2, 1942, with
enclosure.
FORDEFENSE
Miss Grace G. Tully,
BUY
UNITED
The White House.
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did that embryo sentinel, upon a long-hoped-for
McGowan." Bishop Rowe's unflagging Christian
home, strut about in his school uniform and
Soldiership, amid unrecorded hardships and perils, for
buttons with a super-inflated chest that bid fair
many crucial years to the very end, has exalted his
off those buttons, when he paraded among his
Episcopate as an example for all time to come of a
Missionary Manhood. In this connection it is profit-
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friends, also of tender age, at home!
a brief touch of military discipline, as was
able to review Psalms CXLIV-CXLVI in comparison
justifies a high regard for a man in uniform as
with Psalm XXXVI.
ponent to the honor and security of the Amer-
The writer has also an indelible impression that was
Flag. One cannot endeavor too early to realize
made on his memory when standing with his father
import of what Israel's Psalmist was inspired
on a down-town street in Stockton as a timely
"No man bath quickened bis own soul."
Memorial Funeral Cortege went by, in which was an
is a matter of an honored record that General
improvised hearse bearing a symbolic casket as a local
MacArthur, when one of his staff remarked
token of National Sorrow at the loss of our great Presi-
the American Flag which was hoisted at the
dent Abraham Lincoln.
army headquarters might be a target in an
Saint Jacob's Ladder
attack, said in reply: "Men should take
necessary precaution, but the Flag should be
For an annual Sunday School Christmas Service
flying." As an outward token of that unafraid
and object lesson, toward a lifelong neighborship
.7,
which is betokened in the receipt and the gift of
that has ever characterized American citizen-
our flag-poles should not be bereft of The
a substantiality of service, one of California's pioneer
Colors.
parishes, St. John's of Stockton, as a ritualistic drama
of the vision recorded in Genesis XXVIII, instead of
pressure of present-day interests and concerns
the usual large and bountifully laden Christmas tree
e,
not be suffered to obliterate the lessons of the
-before the construction of the modernized Parish
Extending beyond a mere mention of their
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even an inadequate portraiture of such men
Guild building-a Jacob's Ladder was innovated.
ther McGowan of San Joaquin and Bishop Rowe
In the apex of the chancel was temporarily con-
structed, for the occasion, a receptacle for the gifts
would, with many others, adorn the annals
clesiastical history. One incident alone in the
to represent Heaven, whence all good gifts do come.
Planted on the floor of the chancel was a ladder con-
7
career of the former among the Indians of
Flats is sufficient to illustrate his beneficent
necting with that receptacle. Unless his memory is
at fault, the writer was one of the "angels" that
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character as being an incorporation of bis
scrambled up and down that ladder for a distribution
Those Indians remarked, on the appearance
of the Christmas gifts. Seasonable carols were, as usual,
field of his successor, "Here comes another
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Original letter from
Dr. Geoffrey Bourne,
enclosure. October 2, 1942, with
FORDEFENSE
Miss Grace G. Tully,
BUY
UNITED
STATES
The White House.
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and a churchly Sunday School service sanctified
turned into a pasture-land for hay and grain. The
unique commentary on Biblical History, both for
side gardens, including a grape arbor, were made pro-
and the old, in a devotion of attendance
ductive of fruits and vegetables even including pota-
worship. The objectified elements in buman expe-
toes for the family table. Windmills furnished the
make particular impressions on the memory.
motor power for pumps that supplied water for the
practical faith of the Psalmist is exploited in
residence, gardens and barn that adjoined a spacious
9-B
XXVII:
woodshed for the storage of fuel. Altogether our
I should utterly have fainted, but that I believe verily
family then consisted of five girls and two boys, with
to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
our parents, all seasoned, as it were, by a country liv-
0 tarry thou the Lord's leisure; be strong, and he
ing with all the advantages of municipal environ-
shall comfort thine heart; and put thou thy trust in the
ments. Incident to my country-boy experience my
Lord.
fortunes of health dictated a withdrawal temporarily
confirmation of personal service in good works,
from the confinements of collegiate work as then a
mmended in Hebrews X:21-25, leads to a quiet-
member of the Class of 1882 at the University of
confidence in the course of Divine Providence
California. Those were the days when the marks of
a social embodiment of spiritual unity. If men
a dawning eminence in scholarship and administrative
women would assemble themselves together to
acumen had already distinguished such instructors as
thanks, for which every one should praise God,
Doctor Josiah Royce and Colonel Edwards. The aca-
great congregations would characterize every
demic fame of Doctors John and Joseph Le Conte was
ber 17,
unity!
also a notable contribution to the University's historic
ica-
distinction.
My Country Home
Thus the early days of the writer's young manhood
the purchase by my father from Mr. Simon W.
comprised a providential calendar of preparatory
Bourne,
of twenty acres adjoining his fine property on
opportunities: a clerkship in a business house that in-
Street just outside of the then municipal limits
volved personal relationships with city merchants and
f his
ckton, a new family residence was built within
San Joaquin County farmers with a regularity also in
orderland of San Joaquin County. Our family
business dealings as a shipping clerk, with the com-
esided, as it were, in the country within an easy
mon carriers of merchandise, also office work for the
distance into the City of Stockton. Well back
daily mailing of invoices and shipping receipts. A sub-
ested
North Street our place of residence was located.
sequent academic course of study and instruction
pacious frontage was transformed, by my
included accountancy and commercial law, which was
ident's
engineering skill, into a beautiful garden with
coordinated with a fraternal lodge membership that
elm and grapefruit trees. The back field was
led by election to an occupancy of its several execu-
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Original letter from
Dr. Geoffrey Bourne,
October enclosure. 2, 1942, with
FORDEFENSE
Miss Grace G. Tully,
BUY
UNITED
STATES
The White House.
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culminating in a District Deputyship of
than a half-century of social experience favors the
by official appointment and an ensuant
contention that men and women generally are delight-
of parliamentary law that led to an adaptation
fully amenable to friendly approaches.
stories in Smith's Manual: "A Guide to the
Toward the formation of ethical habits every youth
of Meetings" as a parliamentary drill to be
should be grounded in the cardinal principles of
nder the head of "The Good of the Order" to
accountancy and parliamentary order.
an experience of the Chair for the benefit of
Seemingly, there is a need, as being suitable to the
coming occupants of that responsibility. In this
times, for a republication of the fact that charity is a
it is apropos to note that there is a great
quality of personal character, rather than a mode of
in an association with leading men of busi-
commercialized institutionalism. Compare Psalm
acquire an early impression that the prodi-
LVIII.
of a superficial exhibitionism in any sort of
istrative adventure will break down the morale
The Church School Trio
good-will of domestic, civic, economic, or
At another Christmastide in St. John's of Stockton,
institutional undertakings. See Isaiah XXXII;
the Sunday School's program of Biblical observance
IV: 6 and I Thessalonians IV:9-12.
(St. Matthew II:1-15) included a trio of boys who
any sphere of responsibility one should be
were the leaders in singing the old-time Hymn and
but neither at the expense of substan-
Chorus, of which the first line is "We three kings of
r 17,
nor aggressive to the extent of breaking down
Orient are." Those pupils were Henry Stier, Austin
hand what has been built up with the other.
Sperry and the writer. My solo assignment was the
ca-
Psalm XLIX:20.) A child imbued with the
stanza, "Myrrh-is mine its bitter perfume." Looking
tional spirit of Psalm IX will not, throughout
back to that event in my boyhood, it occasions a sense
urne,
of his age, be overwhelmed as to the future
of forecast to my valued chaplaincy to the public insti-
and the ultimate fortunes of country by pre-
tutions and private hospitals as supplementary to
his
inordinate world events. "Bad deeds seldom
occasional prison work and pastoral parochial visita-
happily for mankind." (Consider Psalm
tions, which involved a ministry to many whose aflic-
159, 160. See, also, Psalm CIV.) As to the
tions, however "bitter," in the course of Divine Provi-
basis of social quietness and peace, compare
dence, could be offered as oblations heavenward to
ted
LXXXIV and LXXXV.
The King of Kings, Who is the Shepherd of Love for
mankind.
a glorious evidence of the divinity of love as
ent's
My friend and next-door neighbor, in those days,
in a normal sense of neighborship, in being
was Austin Sperry, who besides Henry Stier, was one
a spirit of good-will among men, that more
of those juvenile soloists. Austin was the youngest of
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Dr. Geoffrey Bourne,
October 2, 1942, with
enclosure.
FORDEFENSE
Miss Grace G. Tully,
BUY
UNITED
The White House.
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of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Willard Sperry.
As a personal tribute to the memory of the Second
Sperry and a younger sister, Elizabeth,
Bishop of California, the writer as his secretary for
that family circle. Miss Ethel Sperry be-
twelve years and during the last five of those years
eneficent wife of Mr. William H. Crocker
also his Chaplain, is impelled to certify that Bishop
Nichols literally "died in the barness" at St. Luke's
B
ocker family in San Francisco, which was
being among a pioneer group of financiers,
Hospital. Every office day, Monday, Wednesday and
and commonwealth builders and distin-
Friday, even during the growing fatality of his ill-
Californian history. Little did Austin
ness that required radical surgical treatments, unless
hildish voice for those who heard him
when physical and doubtless painful discomfort, that,
of what St. John's Parish would ulti-
toward the last, rendered impossible in further work
his desired faithfulness to the Diocese, he had his
tribute in the course of Divine Providence
official mail brought to him for a dictation of prompt
nstructive ecclesiastical institutionalism of
informative replies. On one such occasion he handed
of California. Subsequent to the razing
back a certain letter with the direction: "You answer
residential properties by the fires of 1906,
this one." That deputized responsibility required on
family, by the magnificent munificence,
the part of the writer three laborious attempts to
consent, agreeable to the statesmanship
comply with his request with a prompt, brief, cour-
voted friend and chief pastor, Bishop Wil-
teous and informative note that would not by direct
Nichols, conveyed to the Diocese of Cali-
expression or by implication commit the Bishop to
corporation, the title to the spacious resi-
a policy that he might not indorse.
whereon now stand the monumental
The text of one of the three written sermons re-
of Grace Cathedral and the Gibbs Chap-
quired of a candidate for Holy Orders, as prescribed
likewise the Paige Memorial Diocesan
by Bishop Nichols for the writer, has proved to have
mmemorative of the historic Monteagle
been a replica of his own life as a man and as a Bishop.
It is further to note, as also being of his-
(Galatians VI: 2 and 5.)
that, among many magnificent me-
ponsive to California's first Dean of Grace
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law
of Christ.
Dr. Wilmer Gresham, toward making that
For every man shall bear his own burden.
aven a house of worship for all the people,
of Grace completely furnished was a gift
The devoted constructive Episcopate of the Second
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as a memorial to Bishop Nichols, by
Bishop of the Diocese of California was actively ex-
H. Crocker.
tended to his lamented decease on June 5, 1924.
Enclosures:
Chief of Protocol
Original letter from
Dr. Geoffrey Bourne,
October 2, 1942, with
enclosure.
FORDEFENSE
Miss Grace G. Tully,
BUY
UNITED
STATES
The White House.
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extensive list of Grace Cathedral tributes in-
in good voice, approach a business office to pioneer the
a magnificent marble pulpit given in honor of
equities of the Church Pension System. My parochial
Edward Lambe Parsons and likewise conse-
blessings also included an election as a Vestryman and
with a memorial pew in memory of Mrs.
to a later honor as a delegate to the Diocesan Conven-
by Dr. Karl Morgan Block, the Fourth Bishop
tion, which, however, I was unable to attend in person.
Diocese of California.
Among the cherished opportunities incident to my
Influence in Example Favorable to
residence at home, supplementary to my high-school
Forthcoming Occupations
course, as a graduate member of the Class of 1876,
was a two years' tutorship in Latin and Greek by my
father's high regard for his Rector, the afore-
scholarly uncle, Mr. Hugh Taylor, whose father had
Reverend Elias Birdsall, guaranteed his faithful
been an instructor in the old-time Geneva College,
lance on the Sunday evening services at St.
New York. Those home studies also included instru-
Church, Stockton. Anything like a generality
mental music lessons on the piano and the flute and
services is, however, becoming somewhat a
voice culture under capable masters, one of whom
of youthful memory. Amid her sacrificial
was the late artist, Mr. Hugh Talbot. Upon his de-
duties my mother by example and precept also
cease the writer was called upon to commit his mortal
to become a budding ecclesiastic, progressively
remains for burial in our old-time Laurel Hill Cem-
year, in a growing and enlarging layman's
etery, San Francisco.
hmanship; a Sunday School scholar and youth-
Accordant with Bishop Nichols' advice my New
acher; a Church School Assistant; a member of
England scholastic privileges, as an additional school-
Choir and later of a Quartet Choir and of an
ing and experience, included a five years' eastern aca-
Chorus Choir under the leadership of a
demic atmosphering for a continued western residence
ficent dramatic opera tenor, who had taken
and clerical ministry. The Bishop was wont to say:
with that world-famous soprano, Adelina
"I believe my whole ministry has been to lay founda-
Mr. Hugh Talbot, whose stage name was "Ugo
tions on which others were to build."
He would on occasion sing, at St. John's
My office as a Vestryman of St. John's Parish was
sacred arias with the glorious beauty in tone
coincident, as my memory suggests, with the build-
master's flute or clarionet. A man may talk
ing of the Parish Guild building and the present
tageously to himself in his study, but upon any
St. John's Church edifice, which are now of the Mis-
he should talk so as to be "understanded of
sionary District of San Joaquin. As a lay reader it
eople." Voice culture is essential to prophetic
was also my coveted privilege to conduct a Sunday
elization. Compare the implications in Romans
afternoon service as Superintendent of a Parochial
Bishop Lawrence would not, unless be was
Mission Chapel in Stockton.
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Original letter from
Dr. Geoffrey Bourne,
October 2, 1942, with
enclosure.
FORDEFENSE
Miss Grace G. Tully,
BUY
UNITED
STATES
The White House.
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in regard to one's early responsibility as a legal
ideas, provocative of a memory of a missionary tech-
my father accompanied me to the polls to exer-
nique that tempers the direction and force through-
an independent personal judgment in the casting
out the future of one's ecclesiastical experience.
a ballot long before the installation of voting
The earliest official prelude in California to a con-
chines. On but one such occasion, my father ex-
tinuous ministry then as a Deacon the writer served
the wish that I would not vote favorably to a
for six weeks as a Sunday assistant to the Rev. William
issue and in honor of his more mature judg-
Hall Moreland at the old-time wooden St. Luke's
I voted accordingly in that particular. A voter
Church, San Francisco, then constructed, according
approach public issues with the same sense of
to the understanding of the writer, somewhat like
ponsibility that one would ordinarily exercise in
unto the Symphony Music Hall in Boston. Now as a
management of one's own private affairs.
resigned Bishop of Sacramento, Rector Moreland had
One's domestic training and subsequent scholastic
made it his rule prior to going into the Sanctuary to
perience as governing in a chosen course of life-
celebrate the early morning Eucharist, to recite the
are SO welded together in one's career that any
Veni Creator Spiritus. That devout usage made on the
of the same entails a seemingly disjointed enum-
writer's mind the permanency of a recurrent memory
of pivotal events.
for personal benefit in a daily use of that sacred
The reversion to type is a leading trait of human
Hymn for an abiding consciousness in life and work
The tendencies in the advancing years of
of God's Creative Immanence. (See Genesis I:1, 2
7,
age are characteristically atavistic. Solmon said:
et sec. V:21-24; also Psalm XVI; compare Philippians
rain up a child in the way he should go; and when
II:12, 13.) Incident to the fateful terrors of April 18,
is old he will not depart from it." See, also,
1906, the writer and his wife saw the front walls of
Timothy III:14-17.
St. Luke's new church in a cloud of dust fall into Van
The bomes of the land qualify the character of the
Ness Avenue. The present reconstructed St. Luke's
weal. The modernizing of antiquity is
Church is a beautiful tribute to the loyalty and gener-
rmulated in the following worshipful declaration of
osity of St. Luke's parishioners. The nomination
Psalmist which encases the fundamental motive
St. Luke's to California's Diocesan hospital including a
a vital churchmanship:
beautiful Chapel and a standardized training school for
nurses is likewise, in reconstructed facility, a magnifi-
Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and
cent memorial to devoted laymanships in the City of
the place where thine honour dwelleth.
San Francisco.
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The impressions of clerical responsibility acquired
At the writer's advancement to the priesthood, at
the probational days of one's ministry leave
St. Matthew's pioneer Church, in San Mateo, Cali-
ental marks that are, through the association of
fornia, then Bishop Nichols' home parish, the Rector,
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Original letter from
Dr. Geoffrey Bourne,
enclosure. October 2, 1942, with
FORDEFENSE
Miss Grace G. Tully,
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STATES
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Reverend Mr. De Wolfe Cowie, preached the ordi-
that every youth should be encouraged to regard at
sermon. The Bishop had been ill and his physi-
home and abroad. (See, also, Psalm XVI.) As a
gave his consent simply to the Bishop taking the
Doxology in praise of an ultimate Divine Healing of
of Ordination. He had appointed the faculty of
the Nations, Psalms LXV, LXVI and LXVII consti-
B
Middletown Berkeley Divinity School as the
tute a Triad of Nationalized Hopefulness.
nonical Examiners in my case for the Diocese of
lifornia; the Bishop's own pro forma required exam-
Motherbood
of the writer, prior to ordination, was limited
Motherhood is the very soul of domestic unity and,
the question and seemingly satisfactory answer to the
in an extension of family influence, the beneficent
"What is Apollinarianism?" The preacher at
earnest of a social integrity that makes for the morale
service, in his admonition to the Ordinand, as a
and good-will of commonplace financial business
clusion to his fine sermon, is the only item in that
economy as well as of constructive specialized profes-
course that the writer can recall, possibly because
sional occupations. Not to mention the unpublished
entirely congenial to the writer's training and
work of The Sisters of Saint Saviour, betimes a man,
erience as an ever timely endorsement: "Pay your
clerical or lay, is, as it were, called upon to be both
promptly." The service being a week-day Special
father and mother to the homeless boys in character
the congregation consisted practically of the
building by a specialized fitness, who has been given
7,
mother and wife, and included also the Prin-
jurisdiction, as for example, in Saint Andrew's Inn
Poniatowski, whose maiden name was Miss Eliza-
for Boys in San Francisco.
Sperry, in whose father's business, as proprietor
"There should be no disparity in marriage," said an
the pioneer Sperry's Flour Mills at Stockton, Cali-
Anglican writer. Home life as a bulwark to current
e,
the writer had been a clerk. Human experi-
civilization is the moral main-stay of government,
involves a prismatic association of ideas. Mr.
both public and private, toward the generation of
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orders to his office men in relation to credit
manly men and of womanly women.
in honor of his numerous patrons were given
While in a very real sense the eyes are the windows
phatically: "Put the amount received down even if
of the human soul it does not, however, follow that
mill is on fire." (In this general connection it is
those whose expressional gestures are purely ocular
L
interest to compare: Genesis IX:8-17.)
are the most trustworthy. The choice of a life com-
Every one in constitution is a little world. A family
panion should involve a deliberate and mature con-
!
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constellation of such worlds. A parish is, or should
sideration and appraisal of personal character as to
a constellation of such constellations. In the prac-
what one has been, now is and likely to become.
of the functions of one's religious nature Psalms
One of the writer's diocesan associates, in long-
and LXXII constitute a Charter of Spirituality
standing business relationships, whose wife had lost
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Dr. Geoffrey Bourne,
October 2, 1942, with
enclosure.
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Miss Grace G. Tully,
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with a family friend in a fearful automobile
steered. He affirmed to the writer's wife during her
upon hearing of the decease of the writer's
girlhood: "You will see the day when ships traverse
sent him an affectionate brief note of sympathy
the sky."
In such a sacred companionship, the writer recalls
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the comment that such a severing of the physical
of personal devotion is a calamity.
a conversation of his own wife with Bishop Nichols.
he solemnization of Holy Matrimony involves, as
She had consulted him in regard to the relationship of
sacred office does, the future destinies of a single
a clergyman's wife to her husband's official responsi-
and a single woman as busband and wife rather
bilities. The Bishop replied, "Take care of your hus-
as a commonplace natural experience in the
band and you will be doing your full duty as a
world as mates. There is, however, a peril to
Churchwoman," and then, in a practical illustration,
equity in being mismated. (See St. John IV:
also said: "I say to Mrs. Nichols I am the head of the
The civil contract of marriage, even though
Diocese and you are the head of me." His never fail-
by the sacred bonds of ecclesiastical spiritual
ing dignity was ever mollified by his affectionate home
makes for the domestic felicity or the break-
life. As to the competency of her Churchmanship as a
down of the future careers of God's children, each
progressive and constructive social service worker,
whom should grow more and more unto an indis-
the writer's wife was a graduate of the art depart-
social necessity for the completedness of the
ment of Mount Allison University, Nova Scotia, and
7,
character of the other.
by domestic training in an "old-fashioned family
home" was a home-maker as well as an adept in the
an example to his students for the sacred minis-
use of domestic and embroidery needles as well as a
Bishop Nichols characterized his wife as the one
at his side, and his "ideal help-meet for the
teacher in piano lessons and also an instructor in draw-
e,
ing, oil and water-color painting. She could read her
Goethe and Schiller in the original, and as to English
S
Nichols confirmed the writer's wife and her
literature, she was a reader by libraries. She bad an
the widow of the late Mr. Frederick William
unusual sense of perspective. At the close of the so-
kman of Nova Scotia, at the Cathedral Mission of
called first World War she was decorated, on behalf
Good Samaritan. Mr. Beckman's family claimed
of President Woodrow Wilson, with a special American
1
relationship with that noted German scholar
Red Cross medal for having been the executive head of
author, Johann Beckmann.
one of the largest Red Cross Woman's Auxiliaries in
S
an incident in the course of inventive experi-
San Francisco at that time and had taught its mem-
the writer's father-in-law, Mr. F. W. Beck-
bership to knit sweaters, scarfs and socks for the
in association with Count Zeppelin, contrived
soldiers of the United States Army. Single-handed, in
airship which would rise but could not be
one of the most difficult sections of San Francisco, she
Enclosures:
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Dr. Geoffrey Bourne,
October 2, 1942, with
enclosure.
FORDEFENSE
Miss Grace G. Tully,
BUY
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MOTHERHOOD
to friendship some who, from lack of informa-
had been hostile to the Red Cross ideals and
comment. Little did that Christian Soldier Bishop
ality. The writer is impelled to add the following
collected membership funds for the benefi-
realize what an ever-abiding impression his discover-
humane functions of the historic Red Cross
able affectionate personality had made on his Secre-
tary.
a token of our joint appreciation of the great
The Bishop was fond of an open stove where he
of the social and the religious service rendered
could see the fire as in an open fireside at home. After
he Reverend Dr. and Mrs. J. O. Lincoln in their
a busy day he would turn in his office chair and gaze
and maintenance of Saint Dorothy's Rest
at the fire, then turn toward his Secretary and look
of the benefits that accrued to both the writer
at him with those tired eyes-the Bishop was aging-
his wife in an "outing" at that Diocesan Benefi-
and converse with him as with a chum.
the writer's wife designed, made and donated
Frontal that has ever since adorned the Altar
Asked by one of his former fellow students that
Dorothy's Rest Chapel.
"Billy," who was then on the "diamond" "behind
the bat" as the catcher for his college baseball team,
wife had gone to the business office that sold
and fondly known on the Trinity College campus as
rvations in the Civic Auditorium in San Francisco
"Billy Nic," "Billy, what are you going to be?" His
17,
certain symphony concert. She said to the clerk on
reply was, "Oh, I don't know what I am going to be;
"I would like to reserve two front seats in the gal-
but one thing I do know is that I am not going to be
a-
for that performance." He disclosed a diagram of
a minister." By the politic affectionate leadings of his
house and suggested two seats on the side near the
mother, seconded by his old-time parish rector, that
She said, "I do not want those seats. I want two
rne,
same "Billy" became the Second Bishop of California.
be middle directly facing the orchestra; one can
the music better there than in any other place
As a memorial to the memory of a highly cultured
his
be Auditorium." There was a man standing near-
man of classical letters, the late Professor Henry Rush-
when she made that remark, who immediately
ton Fairclough of Stanford University in response to
around and gave her a long-remembered inter-
an impelling sense of duty for European service as
look; that man was the Conductor, Alfred
a social service military official, during the last World
ted
War, indited a monumental volume entitled "Warm-
a blessed tincture to episcopal responsibility,
ing Both Hands," that should be commended for its
ent's
Nichols had a keen sense of humor, which
encyclopedic constructive technique for both the
exceeded the bounds of ministerial propriety.
young and the old, in its inspirational cosmopolitan-
was neighborly to a degree of a missionary spiritu-
ism toward the promotion of world neighborships.
In community life generally it is a fact of experience
Enclosures:
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Dr. Geoffrey Bourne,
October 2, 1942, with
enclosure.
FORDEFENSE
Miss Grace G. Tully,
BUY
UNITED
The White House.
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usiness houses, like homes, take on the character
she knows because, developed more conspicuously
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who occupy them.
than in most men, she has that mental faculty whereby
not exclusively for the legal conservation of
she is, as a matter of defense to her womanhood,
nunity interests" that business men betimes
enabled providentially to judge of the right or of the
the signature of a man's wife to a document
wrong, the feasibility or the futility of propositions
the security, productivity and marketability
that may be offered for one's consideration and ac-
proposed monetary investment, but as for an
onal guarantee of a woman's judgment regard-
ceptance. A woman's domesticated common sense is exalted
advisability of such a business transaction.
in the generality of a query that has been made sub-
ubtedly not a few men would have been able to
stantially as follows: Is it not a mistake to take one
for their families a more abundant estate had
who has constructively occupied a position, with an
istened with a practical attention to their better
outstanding acceptability to all concerned, from that
wise
counsel.
location to occupy another post where the economic
environments of office are not obviously adaptable to
in an entirely different connection it is a wise
17,
a similarity of personal success? According to the
of prudence to observe that no married
judgment of another good woman much of the dis-
has any justification to occupy, though unwit-
a-
order of the times is due to "Speed."
a social relationship with anyone that, in the
In respect to strategy local traditions should be
course of human regard of one for another,
duly honored. General expansion should not be cur-
rne,
tend to undermine her loyalty to her own hus-
tailed by inordinate centralization. I Corinthians XII
Perchance there are few who really know what
his
involves a parable on spiritual statesmanship.
of a woman's "because." She knows simply
It appears to be a matter of common consent that
she does know without any apparent reason.
women are better judges of men than men are of
man, within the writer's knowledge, in what
women. As a creative beatitude certain living crea-
long since beyond his specific recall of mem-
tures take on for their protection the appearances of
ted
ho defined "common sense," was the late Arch-
the very vegetation they inhabit. The Psalmist of
Richard Whately of Dublin, an eminent man
Israel betokened for mankind the same protective and
ent's
a logician and theologian. He defined com-
sustaining elements in the spiritual world when he
as that mental faculty which enables one
was inspired to declare the providences of Jehovah as
at judgments unaided by art or by any
recorded in Psalm XVI.
of rules. That perceptive faculty is the foun-
In this connection the writer has a persistive recol-
of a woman's "Because." She sees because she
lection of an incident to a vacation trip with his wife
to see; she hears because she has ears to hear;
on the way north to Vancouver, Canada. We were on
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October 2, 1942, with
enclosure.
FORDEFENSE
Miss Grace G. Tully,
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the upper deck of the eventually ill-fated steamer
"The Governor." Seated nearby was seemingly a
As a well deserved tribute to a devoted woman's
young woman and a male representative of the genus
missionary home-making beneficence the following
bomo. It was after dark. That man in a close conver-
incident in the writer's ministry is recorded. Accom-
sation was endeavoring to indoctrinate that girl with
panied by his wife on the way West, the writer visited
the idea that "The greatest sin that one could commit
an institution that was signally supported by a woman
of untold wealth for the sole purpose of keeping
is the sin of being found out." The aftermath of that
mother and child together. In that haven of refuge
sinister endeavor is, of course, unknown, but it is
alone for the unfortunate, during one year, were two
hoped that that young woman's discernment of right
bundred such refugees from social malediction. On
and wrong and sustained toward a conservation of
that visit it was the writer's privilege to baptize a
her womanhood by that abiding love of Mother,
newly-born infant and to give it a Christian name for
which is a mainstay of social integrity, saved her from
an honorable membership in society. That blessed
what could have been for her a life-long cause of a
womanly philanthropist well appreciated the fact that
loss of health and of self-respect. In re humanized
any such mother will eventually be stricken by the
benefaction see Psalm LXXXI.
pangs of uncertainty, if she gives ber child away, as
Marriage honors a life-long mutuality of responsi-
to what has become of her baby, which is a type of
bility. Betimes there redounds, by the dire force of
homesickness, to undermine her peace of mind unto
circumstances, to the credit of both husband and
a lingering breakdown of physical health, not to men-
wife, a reversal of companionable occupations. In the
tion the heart-searching questions that may darken
course of a missionary canvass, subsequent to April
her later days in the event of a future offer of mar-
18, 1906, of that section of San Francisco known as
riage, unless ber love as essentially a good woman,
the Embarcadero and extending from North Beach
proven by a clean revelation of such a mishap in her
to Islais Creek, one incident beyond everything else
life, would quicken into a more enduring affection
connected with that house-to-house survey, stands
in the heart of the man who could appreciate such a
out in the writer's memory. A knock at the front
sacrifice on the part of a chosen fiancee.
door of a homelike cottage summoned in response a
An old-time prodding country doctor was wont
fine, well-built man of an amiable disposition as
to say, "There are no illegitimate children, but there
evinced by his kindly attitude. He was wearing a
are illegitimate parents." A fine maternity specialist,
kitchen apron. He had been an able-bodied mechanic,
himself a religious family man, advised the writer that,
but had suffered a serious injury to his head that per-
according to medical records, in one country alone,
manently incapacitated him from doing a man's hard
during a single year, five bundred thousand infants
day's work. His faithful wife was "in town" earning
were born without the sanctions of wedlock. The
their daily bread.
woman bears the brunt of such lapses from social in-
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Dr. Geoffrey Bourne,
October 2, 1942, with
enclosure.
FORDEFENSE
Miss Grace G. Tully,
BUY
UNITED
The White House.
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tegrity, while her copartner in malediction too often,
While the dissection of a cadaver, in itself consid-
SO far as earthly records and temporal judgments are
ered, does not disclose the immortal part of human
unknown. concerned, disappears into the obscurities of the great
nature, it does reveal the marvelous providences of
the Divine Mind, as manifested in the creation, that
Mothers are needed as vital factors toward the mak-
lead to the discernment that God is love. (See Gene-
ing of growing youth loyal in adult life to their Home
sis II:7 and Ecclesiastes XII; Psalm CXXXIX:1-17.)
Country as a Fatherland, wherein prospers the re-
The following pastoral experience of the writer is
wards of righteousness and peace.
singular in his entire ministry. A call was being made
There is too much prudery concerning judicious
at the home of a seriously ill man, who was laying on
information governing wholesome social relationships
a couch in the corner of a large front room. When
and the sanctity of marital obligations. In regard to
the writer entered that room the patient was alive; bis
matters pertaining to private personal health, every
eyes were wide open and intelligent; suddenly, quicker
boy needs a manly father and every girl needs a
than it takes to think about it, that intelligence dis-
womanly mother. Normal nobility is an outcome of
appeared, which marked the instant when he had
personal religion. (See Psalm LXXXVII.)
passed away: his spirit, with lightning speed, had left
his body. It was like seeing a human face looking at
One of the writer's highly regarded acquaintances,
one through a window and on turning aside for a
a stalwart, soldierly man with the credit of three dec-
moment, then looking back to find that face gone.
ades of service in the United States Navy, related the
(See Psalm XLIX; St. James II:26. Compare I Thes-
following notes of family experience: "I had a nine-
salonians V:23.)
year-old daughter, who gave mentally great promise
of becoming a teacher of youth. She had been given
In his later ministry the writer had two cases that
a beautiful doll which she cherished [evidently as an
are for him an enduring memory. In both of those
matters the correspondents were manly enough to
outward sign of an inborn sense of motherhood]. She
resort to a coverage in marriage. In one of those cases,
slept with that doll." Her father said, "I loved that
however, the "stork" anticipated their painful retribu-
little girl." In the inscrutable providences of the
tive hopes. A marriage was subsequently followed
Heavenly Father she died. Her father said "At ber
with the baptism of their child. In the other case, SO
burial that doll went with ber."
far as known, the infant was given over to the chari-
One of the shortest comments (St. John XI:35),
table care of an institutionalized nursery.
withal one of the most expressive, that adorns the
The modernizing of any age consists in the trans-
evangelical records in Holy Writ, is the notation in
portation into the times of the spirit of those who
the account of the death of Lazarus: "Jesus wept."
personalize in their days what Charles Dickens char-
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October 2, 1942, with
enclosure.
FORDEFENSE
Miss Grace G. Tully,
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acterized as "The power of a perfect mastery of their
ous to the human system; it is easier to change one's
character."
"sky" than to alter one's disposition.
According to the courtesies of The Associated Press
In proportion to inordinate gratifications, ensues a
the following news item is quoted in toto:
coordinate atrophy of the buman will that tends
toward a wreckage of personal character. St. Paul's
257 DIVORCES IN 4 HOURS IRK JUDGE
prescription to the Ephesians (Chap. II) is timely and
AUGUSTA (Ga.), Sept. (AP) Granting 257
specific: "By grace ye are saved through faith; and
divorces in a four hour session, Judge A. L. Franklin
that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God." (See,
declared that "if this is a sample of civilization, we
also, II Corinthians III:1-6.) Psalm CXLI is a spir-
are in a dickens of a fix.
itual prophylactic. Psalms I-V constitute worshipful
"Our churches, schools and other educational insti-
resumé of righteousness.
tutions have got to teach people more about the sanc-
Contrasted with the fatality regarding the outcome
tity of marriage," the veteran jurist said.
of social disasters, the undying fidelity of a womanly
motherbood, even in the face of vice or of dire pov-
The fineness of a religiously cultured womanhood
erty, one need but read Dickens' story of "The
in a joint support of a sterling manhood is the sure
Drunkard's Death," or view Hogarth's picture of
foundation of that congenial companionship which
"The Dying Clown."
makes motherhood the very soul of a home, and, of
Even the flickering sparks of manhood or of
manhood its support and protection as a one woman's
womanhood can be rekindled into the "fire of love"
man. Psalm XXXVIII discloses the limits of a per-
as mercifully revealed in the parables of the lost sheep,
sonal responsibility for the moral sequences of an
the lost coin and the inordinate boy as well as in the
undisciplined will. Compare the creative honors of
redemptive love in Divine Providence as revealed in
manhood and of womanhood in Psalms VIII and
the Evangelical Story of the Magdalene. Those divine
XIX. Jehovah has never left His Creation to run
revelations that God is Love are likewise forecasts of
wild, unhelped by proffers of Divine Grace, to the
the Recreative Mercy (St. Matthew V:7) as revealed
excesses of an uncontrolled human will. Vigorous
in the pronouncement to that penitent malefactor also
health is itself productive of normal appetites, for an
dying on Calvary: "Today shalt thou be with me in
employment germane to a normality of buman
Paradise" in response to his agonizing petition: "Lord,
spirituality. Excess in any condition of physiological
remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom."
normality leads to a habituation of misuse that can
Israel's Psalmist, in a spirit of contrite supplication
eventually become pathological mentally as well as
to the eternal Lover of Mankind, immortalized the
physically. (See St. Matthew XI:28-30; compare
vitality of hope in his filial worshipful approach to
St. James I:27.) A slavery to habit can become peril-
Jehovah: "Turn thee again, O Lord, at the last, and
Dr. Geoffrey Bourne,
October 2, 1942, with
enclosure.
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be gracious unto thy servants." Psalm XC:13 (P.B.V.).
The motherly impulses in womanhood, besides mak-
See, also, Psalm CVII:17-22.
ing women home builders, "born nurses" and betimes
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Spiritual Hygiene
savants in the learned professions, transcend every
The cure of human waywardness harks back to an
other calling, open to women in common with men,
eradication of any sort of agnosticism. (See Psalms
as being inevitably accordant with a woman's created
LIII and LVIII; Philippians I-III; compare Ephesians
nature, eventually as an asset for a preeminence in
IV.) The Psalter itself contains the fundamentals in
social expression beyond the attractive claims of both
a state of spiritual sanity. (I Thessalonians II and V.)
science and art. The Apostle Paul was inspired to
The consummation of universalized civilization will
signalize in his First Epistle to the Corinthians the
be attained when such a social blessedness is accordant
immortality of love as did also Drummond when he
with the Divine Providences therein involved. Con-
declared: "The greatest thing in the world is love."
sider I Thessalonians V:23 in re Philippians II:13.
The following story reaffirms the spiritual verity re-
The vitality of social welfare is resident in the con-
garding the preeminence of love as being transcen-
ditions of Spiritual Hygiene. "Blessed are the pure in
dental to every other human controlling influence,
heart: for they shall see God." (St. Matthew V:8;
whether commercial, scientific or artistic.
7,
compare Psalm XV.) Devotional usages of the "Con-
Many years ago it was the writer's privilege as a
stant Collect" and of the one for Monday in Whitsun
student lay reader to visit a New England "old-
Week, with The Lord's Prayer, also furnish the spir-
fashioned" family home center which had been also
itual Daily Bread for those "which do hunger and
in earlier days a business center, but in the shifts of
e,
thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."
circumstances, had become more extensively a com-
(St. Matthew V:6.)
munity of homes. In one of those characteristic fine
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Connecticut homes resided at that time a prospective
Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open, all
desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid;
Metropolitan Grand Opera artist, who, on Sundays in
Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of
the Parish Church, constituted the entire choir in her
thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and
leadership of congregational singing: a young woman
1
worthily magnify thy holy Name; through Christ our
of attractive personality and a fine physique, which
Lord. Amen.
could win for her an outstanding stage presence, also
t's
Send, we beseech thee, Almighty God, thy Holy
a support of a magnificent soprano voice.
Spirit into our hearts, that he may direct and rule us
Just before that April 18, 1906, a pivotal date in
according to thy will, comfort us in all our afflictions,
the municipal life of San Francisco, that friend of the
defend us from all error, and lead us into all truth;
writer was scheduled to take part as a dramatic
through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with thee and the
same Holy Spirit liveth and reigneth one God, world
soprano in one of the great Wagnerian operas at the
without end. Amen.
then Mission Street Opera House. Learning of her
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presence in San Francisco, the writer sent up his card
to her apartment. She cordially responded as of yore,
and gave complimentary tickets for the writer and his
wife to attend the performance of the opera in which
she was to take an imposing part. Asked whether she
had any prospective "boy friend," she replied: "Ob,
no; I am wedded to my art." The fires of 1906
abruptly canceled that opera season and SO we were
not privileged to bear further testimony to her mag-
nificent voice and artistry. It was said, however, that
in the ultimate course of events, she had become
wedded otherwise than professionally to grand opera
art.
er 17,
It would tax an inspired pen to anticipate the provi-
dential glories of Motherhood. The Holy Scriptures
.ca-
reveal, in historic commemorations, the beauty of a
devotional womanhood, for the beatification of so-
urne,
ciety. Hannah, the mother of Samuel; Ruth and
Naomi; Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist;
his
the prophetess Anna, not to exclude the resanctified
Magdalene, are outstanding among the innumerable
company of immortals. The redemptive holiness that
is a replica of a faithfulness unto death of a Mother-
sted
hood that glorifies a universal womanhood is had in
the committal by The Lamb of God of His Mother
-the Blessed Virgin Mary-to the care of the Be-
dent's
loved Disciple, John the Evangelist:
Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and
his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary
Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and
the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto
his mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then saith he to
the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour
that disciple took her unto his own home.
October 2, 1942, with
enclosure.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
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WASHINGTON
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In reply refer to
PR
December 3. 1942
My dear Miss Tully:
In compliance with your memorandum of November 17,
1942, I am returning herewith the original communica-
tion addressed to the President by Dr. Geoffrey Bourne,
London, England, transmitting an inscribed copy of his
book entitled Return to Reason.
The American Embassy at London has been requested
to convey to Dr. Bourne an expression of the President's
thanks for the volume.
Sincerely yours,
Chief of Protocol
Enclosures:
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2-10-42
Dear Mr President
In reply refer to
PR
ask you to arcept a
specially bound copy of any
small book It is offered
as a token of personal admiration
My dear Miss Tully:
In compliance with your memorandum of November 17,
1942, I an returning herewith the original communica-
tion addressed to the President by Dr. Geoffrey Bourne,
London, England, transmitting an inscribed copy of his
told book me entitled that Return to Reason. whould put it
The American Embassy at London has been requested
in
to convey to Dr. Bourne an expression of the President's
thanks The for the volume. period, 8 the
onset of
Sincerely yours, was the
final stimu GEORGE fup T. SUMMERLIN
It deals with what Chief of 9 Protocol believe
to be Enclosures: one 0 the chindamental
Original letter from
factors October enclosure. 2, 1942, with se democracy
Dr. Geoffrey Bourne,
& I therefore Kenture * hope
Miss Grace 0. Tully,
The White House.
NS
FROM DR GEOFFREY BOURNE.
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TELEPHONSECK 1035.
2-10-42
47, QUEEN ANNE STREET,
Dear Mr President
CAVENDISH SQUARE,
W.1.
I ask you to accept a
specially bound copy of my
small book. It is offered
as a token of personal admiration
of gratitude to you.
I spoke of its theme years ago
[ [ ? 1935] to General Imuts Who
told me that I should put it
in writing.
The pre - war period, of the
onset of hostilities, was the
tal
final stimulus.
It deals with what I believe
to be one of the fun damen tal
factors in operative democracy,
of I therefore Venture to hope
2767 'LT November
that ynom
you to read it, it will prove
of some interest.
of events forlid this I have trust
Even should the pressure
that the fact that I
fent it may serve to that add
one small link to
understanding between our
two nations or which the
future depends.
I am proud to be American is
by adoption Orbans. - my wife
from New
I have the honour to be
yours, with fir sent aments of
respect o esteem
Gestray Bourne GesHrey
ed?
pent it may link to our that
of that Even events the forlid fact this that serve I to have add
you of some interest should - the 9 pressure ast
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November 17, 1942
MEMORANDUM FOR HONORABLE GEORGE T. SUMMERLIN:
Will you not be good enough to have
acknowledgment made of the enclosed letter x20
and book from Dr. Geoffrey Bourne, of London,
and return them to us?
Grace G. Tully
Private Secretary
dd
Dr. Geoffrey Bourne,
47 Queen Anne Street,
Cavendish Square,
W. I. (London)
Dr. Bourne asks the President to accept this specially bound copy of his small
book "Return to Reason"; deals with what he believes to be one of the fundamental
factors in operative democracy.
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ALFRED A. KNOPF
New York, N.Y.
December 3, 1942 - Ackd.
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Sent the President a copy of the now book GOVERNMENT BY ASSA SINATIONS by
Mr. Hugh Byas. Book sent to the Study. Ackd. 12/3/42.
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RICHARDSON, Sullivan C.
Chicago, Ill.
Ackd. Dec. 3, 1942.
Sends copy of book "Adventure South" which was inscribed by above,
Mr. Arnold Whitaker and Mr. Kenneth C. Van Hee. To study.
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12/5/42
Miss Rosenberg,
PP7. P P7-
A book " God's Bible was received
this date vi'a parcel post and sent to
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U.S.S.S. A letter associated with this
is postmarked Dec. 1, 1942. Signed God's
Son, King of Love. Geoshor / 2
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December 7.. 1942
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Ministerio de Justicia e Instruccion
PP7-9
Publica de la Nacion,
Comision Revisora de Textos de Historia y Geografia,
Edificio del Carildo,
"B"
Bolivar 65,
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Sends President two books by Gilberto Freyre "Casa-Grande y Senzala"
Volunes I & II. No covering letter received.
Referred to State Department, 12/7/42.
mcb/
See 366a
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December 7.. 1942
Diretor-Geral do Departamento Estadual de Estátistica,
Rua Tenete Silveira, Esquina Trajano,
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Florianopolis, Santa Catarina.
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Send President copy of book by Oswaldo R. Cabral "Medicina, Nedicos e
Charlataes do Passado. Order blank X enclosed - no covering letter
received.
Referred to Department of State, 12/7/42.
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December 7.. 1942
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SIGSTEDT, Sigrid 0.
Bryn Athyn, Pa.
Ackd. Dec. 4, 1942.
Life". To study.
Sends book entitled "Strait is the Gate: A Romance of the Other
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December 7.. 1922
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New York, N.Y.
November 18, 1942
Letter to the President, sending copy of book which he presented to
President Prado of Peru, covering his recent visit to the U. S. Ackd. 12/5/42,
advising book has not been received.
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New York, N.Y.
December 7, 1948 - Ackd.
Sent the President a copy of Ambassador Grew's book REPORT FROM TOKYO.
Sent to the Study. Ackd. 18/7/48.
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WIENER, Paul Lester
New York, N.Y.
November 17, 1942
Letter to Miss Lehand, sending copy of book CAN OUR CITIES SURVIVE. To
the Study. Ackd. 12/4/42.
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December 7.. 1922
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Chicago, Illinois
December 7, 1942 - Ackd.
To the Study. Ackd. 12/7/42.
Sent the President, copy of book, "The Methodology of Pierre Duhem.
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WOODS, Dr. & Mrs. Henry M.
THE WORLD-WIDE REVIVAL PRAYER MOVEMENT
Atlantic City, N.J.
December 3, 1942
Letter to the President, sending booklet. Sent to the Study with magazines.
Ackd. 12/4/42.
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CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, The
Washington, D. C.
Ackd. De.c 7, 1942.
Christmas
Book
Shan.
Sent inscribed book entitled "Men of Nexico".
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LYNCH, William Charles Joseph
Central City, Kentucky
December 7, 1942 - Ackd.
Sent the President Christmas Greetings and copy of the Catholic Guide.
Book to Mrs. Eben. Ackd. 12/7/42.
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THE JOURNAL OF LIVING
New York, N.Y.
December 7, 1942 - Ackd.
Sent the President a book, entitled HOW TO WIN AND KEEP HEALTH WITH FOODS.
Book to the Study. Ackd. 12/7/42.
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MACMILLAN COMPANY, The
New York, N.Y.
Dec. 9, 1942. (File date)
them for the book entitled "American Opinion & The War" which they sent to
On Dec. 7, 1942 Miss Tully wrote to the above company thanking
the President as a gift from the author, Hon. Archibald Macleish. Let.
of thanks to Hon. MacLeish on Dec. 7, 1942.
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My dear Miss Belnap:
Permit me to thank you for your kind-
ness in sending the inscribed copy of the book
which was received recently. I can assure you
that your friendly thought is appreciated.
Very sincerely yours,
Grace G. Tully
Private Secretary
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Miss Flora Belnap,
2149 Madison Avenue,
Ogden,
Utah.
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BOOK: TEMPLES OF THE MOST HIGH (Latter Day Saints)
May I say that many of the defense workers are also O
sluffing on their jobs. One boy 18 told me he was making about
$300 per month at the air craft mechanical work. I asked him what
he did all night, or all day, when he worked. "Oh, nothing much,
very easy. 11
I surely dont envy you or Mr. Byrnes on the job.
And
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2149 Madison Ave.
12/7/27
Ogden, Utah,
Nov. 5, 1942
d.d.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt;
Washington D. C.
Dear President:
It appears that you and Great Britain are fulfilling
the prophecies herewith inclosed as I thot the news came over the
radio theo other that American and British troops had landed in Pales
Sea. tine and Assyria, and this A. M. I heard that they were near the Red
Some of the prophecies are contained in "Temples of the
Most High" copied ver batim. This book I bought last Friday, while
enroute to the temple, to mail to you, but wanted to mark some of
the high lights, but have failed, but you may expect it.
I am so disgusted with these ignorant labor unions, argu-
ing
with me last Sunday, "United we stand, together we fall"
yes in unrighteousness and hindrance of defense. They told me
then they were planning a grand walk out at the American Packing
and Provision Company for the 8th of November. They say they receive Q
over $100 per month for regular time and $1.80 per hour for overtime, a
and their own words, make more money on their over time and sluff
on the job," too. I cant get one, who is a sheet metal mechanic,
but left the sheet metal works, because of the high union fee and
is making saugage, at the American Packing & P rov. Co. to cut a
flue in my old house, to make room for people in defense work(it snowed
here yesterday morning) and many are in tents--I cant get him to do
this, I repeat because he is associating with another ignorant tenant,
a 20 year employee and striker for the same company. And
when
I get a carpenter, he cant work because he belongs to the union,
and everything is frozen SO I cannot get supplies either.
The twenty year employee has been paying me $12.50 per month for 3 rooms,
the placing of his children's bed in another, practically 4 and I have
had the roof to shingle, etc. etc. They buy overstuffed living room
suits, walnut dining room sets, electric refrigerators, $50 bycicles,
take bankruptcy to avoid their debts, etc. etc. and I cannot afford
any of the luxuries named, so that I can get by. Rents in Ogden
have been frozen for many years until it has been impossible to make
enuf to pay taxes, much less anything else.
Now, I know these things cannot be adjusted in a minute,
and I am not complaining, am still trying to work things out and keep
within the law with prices of food ano clothes, twice as high in
a couple of months. It seems to me that those prices could revert back
to March 1, as the rents, but how you are going to get enuf acccountant
to look into all these things immediately, is surely a problem.
May I say that many of the defense workers are also O
sluffing on their jobs. One boy 18 told me he was making about
$300 per month at the air craft mechanical work. I asked him what
he did all night, or all day, when he worked. "Oh, nothing much,
very easy. 11
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Some of the older people who are accustomed to working
on their farms, just work fast and hard as they are used to doing
for themselves. It gets on their nerves to see the others idling.
One rather elderly lady told of a man painting a door, he moved the
brush SO slowly, she said "There goes another Million Dollars of
Uncle Sam's money."
This negro element coming in here from the south are lazy,
immoral, even getting many of the white girls in bad. One is
not safe on the electric train between here and Salt Lake.
They are better in the South picking cotton for soldiers' apparel.
I dont believe in making slaves of people, and I also
believe in everyone having a fair chance.
AGAIN, WHAT A JOB YOU HAVE!
I am wondering if observance of the Sabbath in all plants,
unless it is an emergency, or a morning and afternoon 10 minute
recess, help. which always brings better and more work for anyone would
I am sure the statesman, that you have appointed are more
equal to the situation than L.
I do wish there was some way of educating this undertoe,
striking labor union people, to a higher level of thinking.
They rank underneath, slowly crawling their way to a war between
capital and labor, as Hitler (Satan) did.
Ever praying for the Lord to guide you, especially in the
big accomplishments of the Master's plans, foretold bby prohets,
of which a smattering is herewith inclosed.
Has not that little speck of a Britain been sustained-and
she has been working for the Jews for a century --and longer, I guess.
And what about our preservation-San Francisco saved, when
they could have flown even to Utah with their Jap planes, had they known
we were SO weak.
I have often thot we needed a weekly fireside chat from the
White House over the radio, using God and his purposes as a base with
an attractive gold or red, white and blue flag, streaming above to
attract this undertoe.
Hurriedly and sincerely yours,
Flora
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"The vision continued open about six hours, that I did not close
my eyes in sleep. In this time many things were shown to me which I ha
have never written; neither shall I write them until they are fulfilled
in Jerusalem, said the Jewish apostle, Orson Hyde of this dispensation.
Further (March 1840) i "The cities of London, Amsterdam, Constan-
tinople and Jerusalem all appeared in succession before me, and the
Spirit said unto me, 'Here are many of the children of Abraham whom I
will gather to the land I gave to their fathers, and here also is the
field of your labors. ff
"Blow ye the trumpet at in theland; cry, gather together; and say,
assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities. Let
the standard be reared toward Zion. Retire! stay not; for I will
bring evil from the north and a great destruction. The lion is come
up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way,
he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate, and thy
cities shall be laid waste without inhabitant. Speak ye comfortably
to Jerusalem, and cry unto her that her warfare is
accompliahed--th her iniquity is pardoned, for she has received
from the Lord double for all her sins." etc.
From Orson Hyde's prayer on the Mount of Dlives, Fall of 1842,
as I recall:
"Let the large ships of the nations bring them from the distant
isles; and let kings become their nursing fathers, and queens
with motherly fondness wipe the tear of sorrow from their eyes."
"Let that nationor that people whol shall take an active part in
behalf of Abraham's children, andin the raising up of Jerusalem, find
favor in thy sight,
Let not their enemies prevail against them, neither let pestilence
or famine overtake them; while the nation or kingdom that will
not serve thee i n this glorious work must perish, according to thy
word-- "Yea those nations shall be utterly wasted."
PROBABLY THOSE WERE SOME OF THE THINGS ORSON HYDE SAW.
F.B.
Nov. 6, 1942
Ogden, Utah
Excerpt from Discourse of Orson Pratt, Apostle of the
Church of Jesus Christ in this dispensation, at Logan, Utah, Nov. 1,
1879. Journal Discourses Vol 21, p. 149., which is also part of
the sermon, published in Temples of the Most High," p 206.
Note by Flora Belnap. Pres. Lorenzo Snow, who after this date,
See Temples of the Most High, page 144, By Le Roi C. Snow, (to whom
I talked and he verified his account told him by his father, Lorenzo
Snow and also told me by his grandaughter, Allie Young Pond) met
the Savior face to face in the Salt Lake Temple, Sept. 2, 1898)
From the sermon it appears that Pres. Snow spoke of the building of the
New Jerusalem on this continent, reference to which has been made in
theBible, Doctrine and Covenants and Book of Mormon.
"We do not expect to go to the Sandwich Islands, neither to the
Society Islands, neither to any of the islands bf the oceans, nor to
South America, mor Central America to carry the order of things,
which we expect to enter into, in all its fulness, but we expect, just as
we expect the sun to rise, when it arises on a clear morning, that
the Lord will
and take us back to the land referred to by
Brother Snow this forenoon".
And he continues at length regarding the young men of the Church
returning to Eastern Kansas and Western Missourri and taking up
lands, eventually for an everlasting inheritance.
"Today $50,000 worth or property is the most that can be held
by a religious organization, but in that day property, amounting
to a very much larger sum will be held in trust, and for whom? For
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, and for all this great
company, that will be gathered together, and there will be such a
change in governmental affairs, that the trustee, whomever he may be,
will only act as long as he is faithful, and if he is unfaithful, it will
be tranferred to another."
And he continues explaining the law of stewardship, information
of which you received in 1941.
"The people will be all equally poor or all equally rich" etc.
Other prophecies of Apostle Orson Pratt have been fulfilled.
He was a most brilliant philosopher, his books now text books at Oxford
and in U. S. as well he excelled even men of today in mathematics,
literature,
More etc. etc. explanation of mail prophesia Door
in the book 2 hope received it then
if you it have to one who not will already Nov. appreciate Ogden, 6, 1942 Utah.
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December 2, 1942
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JAFFIN, George
New York, N.Y.
Ackd. Dec. 3, 1942.
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December 2, 1942
My dear Miss Buck:
The President was delighted to receive
those delicious grapes. He asks me to thank
you ever so much for your friendly thought in
sending them to him and to convey his hearty
good wishes to you.
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Very sincerely yours,
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Grace G. Tully
Private Secretary
Miss Pearl I. Buck,
Exeter,
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It was kind of you to send the President
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how grateful he is for your friendly good wishes.
Very sincerely yours,
Grace G. Tully
Private Secretary
Earl L. Baker, Esq.,
American Plastex Company,
Traverse City,
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Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt
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My dear Mr. Roosevelt:
The accompanying "Victory" ash
tray was designed especially for you, and I want you
to have the first one. I hope you like it as much
as 1 do. My very best wishes to you.
Sincerely,
Earl L. Baker
Juan Antonio Solari,
Camara de Diputados de la Nacion,
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Sends President two of his books: En el Frente Democratico &
America Presa Codiciada - planes de dominacion Nazi.
Referred to Department of State, 12/10/42.
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My dear Dr. Blanchard:
It vas indeed kind of you to send the
President copies of your publications. Permit
me to thank you, in his behalf, for your courtesy.
Very sincerely yours,
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Private Secretary
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Dr. C. E. Blanchard,
36 North Phelps Street,
Youngstown,
Ohio.
(Books titled "The Romance of Proctology" and booklet "Letters to My
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Memo for the President, dated 12/7/42, "In response to your memorandum
of Dec. 1, 1942 (not in file) there are attached herewith a suggested letter to
the Greek Prime Minister, together with a note asking Ambassador A. J. D. Biddle to
transmit the letter to Mr. Tsouderos. Enclosure: 1. Letter to Greek Prime Minister
for President's signature. 2. Note to Ambassador Biddle for President's signature."
------- The President signed both letters. Book entitled "Salute to Greece" to the
President from Mr. Tsouderos.
Original copies of letters and book sent to
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Dec. 2, 1942
Letter to the President, sending under separate cover book "Book of Common
Worship" with marked page calling attention to General Washington's prayer. Ackd.
12/8/42 returning book.
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Nov. 25, 1942. Ackd. Dec. 8, 1942.
Harper and Brothers, at the direction of the above, sent his
book entitled "America's Natural Wealth". - Presidential ackd. on
Dec. 8, 1942.
Pierre F. Goodrich sent another copy of above at the direction
of his father, the late James P. Goodrich.
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
December 8, 1942
Sent the President copy of publication] LEXINGTON TO FALLEN timbers,1775-1794
Booklet sent to Series B. The President acknowledged on 12/8/42.
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Dear Grace:
I am sending along a book by Richard Barry
which he has inscribed to the President. I don't know
Mr. Barry, but the book is about a subject which will
interest the President intensely - - namely, the writing
of the Powers of the President clause in the Constitution.
A glance at pages 340 to 342, and the notes on pages
388 to 389, will give some sense of what the book con-
tains. I am sending it along at the request of Mr. Barry's
publishers. I have not as yet had an opportunity to read
it myself, but I think it might be of interest.
My best to you.
Faithfully yours,
Enclosure
and
Archibald MacLeish X160
Miss Grace Tully
Secretary to the President
The White House
Form LH 7-FLF-IM-11-42
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December 9, 1942
Dear Archie:
Evero so many thanks for sending
me the copy of the book "Mr. Rutledge of
South Carolina" by Richard Barry. Will you
be good enough to thank Mr. Barry and tell
him how much I appreciate having the book,
with the inscription, and that I look forward
to reading it?
My best wishes to you.
As ever,
Honorable Archibald MacLeish,
The Librarian of Congress,
Washington, D. C.
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Recorder of Deeds
Washington, 0. C.
Dec. 2, 1942. Ackd. 12/3/42.
Let. to the President, saying he is sending under separate cover
a brochure in re his trip to California to attend the launching of the
"Booker T. Washington"; also, records made by the Dept. of Inter-American
Affairs in celebration of Columbus Day and Cuban Independence Day. - To
Hyde Park Library, Series B.
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My dear Mr. Bedacht:
I want to acknowledge the receipt
of the copy of THIS IS YOUR enemy, inscribed
by the author, Mr. Alvah Bessie, which you
were good enough to send to the President.
You may be assured that he much appreciates
your courtesy.
Very sincerely yours,
Grase G. Tully
Private Secretary
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80 Fifth Avenue,
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My dear Mr. President:
We are privileged to send you as a gift the special bound edition of This Is Your Enemy
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a brochure dealing with the subject of Nazi atrocities in the Soviet Union. The material in
the book -- text and pictures -- is based upon Foreign Minister Molotov's official documents
and memoranda on Nazi atrocities. The text of the book was written by Alvah Bessie noted
American author and veteran of the Spanish Loyalist campaigns against the Hitler-Mussolini
invaders who helped Franco to destroy the Spanish Republic. The gift edition is autographed
by Mr. Bessie.
All net proceeds derived from the distribution of This Is Your Enemy are contributed to
United Nations war relief through our Front Line Fighters Fund, the war relief fund instituted
by the International Workers Order, Inc., a labor fraternity and supported by the efforts and
contributions of our members and their friends. To date the Front Line Fighters Fund has
contributed over a half million dollars to the USO, the American Red Cross, the agencies
caring for anti-Fascist refugees and to other accepted war relief agencies. Our fund also
sends thousands of gifts directly to American soldiers.
Twenty-five thousand copies of This Is Your Enemy were published in the first edition.
Other editions will appear in other languages. The popular edition has been published with
paper cover to bring the cost down in order to make the distribution as wide as possible.
The copy you receive is one of a limited edition and has been issued for the purpose of en-
abling interested officials of the United Nations, heads of war relief agencies, labor and
political organizations, libraries, newspapers, magazines and others to have on hand a per-
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We are considering a nationwide distribution of this volume and others like it. Your
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be a worthwhile contribution to the victory of our country and its allies over the Fascist
Axis.
Respectfully yours,
Max Bedadls
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December 10, 1942
My dear Mr. Bonynge:
Thank you in the President's behalf
for your kindness in sending him the personal
notebook. He is most appreciative of your
friendly thought of him and wants me to convey
his best wishes to you for the Christmas Season.
Very sincerely yours,
Grace G. Tully
Private Secretary
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Clarence Bonynge, Esq.,
120 Broadway,
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New York, N. Y,
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December 10, 1942
My dear Mrs. Burleson:
The President was especially pleased to
receive the little donkey. He thanks you ever 80
much for your friendly thought in sending it to
him and has asked me to convey his cordial good
wishes to you.
Very sincerely yours,
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Grace G. Tully
Private Secretary
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Mrs. Ella C. Burleson,
406 Elizabeth Road,
San Antonio,
ed
Texas.
December 11, 1942
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My dear Mr. Bullock:
I want to thank you, in the Presi-
dent's behalf, for your kindness in sending him
those cigarette holders to which you refer in
your Letter of recent date. He deeply appreci-
ates your friendly thought in wanting him to
have this product of your own handiwork.
Your friendly good wishes are indeed
appreciated by the President.
Very sincerely yours,
Grace G. Tully
Private Secretary
Joseph C. Bullock, Esq.,
129 West Parrish Street,
Durham,
North Carolina.
cd
most devotedly to the cause of Democracy as exemplified by your
example.
Joseph C. Bullock.
Joseph C.Bullock.
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November 10, 1942,
T, A.B.B.
129 West Parrish St;
Durham, N.C.
ackid
12/1/22
His Excellency The President,
Franklin D.Roosevelt,
White House,
Washington, D.C.
My Dear Mr. President:
Herewith, You are mailed two cigarette holders
Which I have made from the ordinary Fig Tree Limbs. I make them
only as a. hobby, and I sincerely hope you will find them enjoyable
in your use of them.
I have made many of them and my friends like them
very much, My genuine and sincere good wishes to you for your
continued good health, and happiness, and assure you of my deep
gratitude and appreciation for your outstanding leadership
in the worlds gravest hour. I am supremely confident, with
so great and able leadership, who believes in the GREAT GOD of
the Universe, as you do, we will come out more than victorious
in this great struggle.
Again Wishing you enjoyment, in the use of these
cigarette holders, and your continued good health, I remain,
most devotedly to the cause of Democracy as exemplified by your
example.
Joseph C. Bullock
Joseph C.Bullock.
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KING, Robert N.
9-13
New York, N.Y.
December 7, 1942
Letter to the President, sending beautifully bound copy of book
AMERICA'S PRAYER". Sent to Series B. Ackd. &2/10/42.
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will spare him a cong lime w guive
Victory.
Weremain, Iny Dear President.
yours Very Truly Inst Inrs Arthur Burt (over)
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December 10, Stouroom
My dear Mr. and Mrs. Burt:
Thank you ever so much, in the Pres-
ident's behalf, for the kind thought which
prompted the presentation of that beautiful
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piece of crocheted work referred to in your
9-c
letter of November twenty-fourth. He is deep-
ly grateful for your friendly expression and
your prayerful wishes and I have pleasure in
conveying his very best wishes to you for your
welfare and happiness.
Very sincerely yours,
Grace G. Tully
Private Secretary
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Burt,
231 0. Callaghan Way,
South Boston,
Massachusetts.
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will spare him a long time to guide us on to
Victory.
We remain, Iny Dear President.
yours Very Truly Inst Inrs Arthur Burt (over)
12
nklin D. Roosevelt
November 94th
White House
1942
my Dear Waokington President. D.C. 12/10/4 who it. -
Seeing you have selected the 23ᵗʰ
Psalm; as our prayer for Thanks-giving
under another cover that Psalm.
and New year. I am sending you
It is in the shape of a piece of crochet
work made by my wife. hoperng you
will like it.
It can be used as a chair back or could
be framed on a dark back ground.
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my Wife and I are on the O.A.A.
we can; but we only get $32-58 a month:
We are buying as many war stamps as
so wish we could do more for our country.
We the people of Boston think a great deal
of our beloved President; and hope that God
will spare him a long time to guide us on to
Victory.
Weremain, InyDear President.
yours Very Truly Inst Inrs Arthur Burt
(over)
231. O. Callaghan Way
S. Boston Inass.
PP1
9-B
7
December 9, 1942
Stowson
My dear Mrs. Badgley:
The President has noted with a great deal
of interest what is said in the communication accom-
panying the beautifully crocheted piece you presented
PPF
to him as a Thanksgiving remembrance. He deeply ap-
preciates your friendly thought in sending him this
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product of your own handiwork and has asked me to
convey his most cordial good wishes to you for your
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health and happiness.
9-c
It is deeply gratifying to the President
to know that he is remembered in your prayers during
these critical days.
Very sincerely yours,
Grace 0. Tully
B
Private Secretary
Mrs. Gustave C. Badgley,
114 E. B. Drive,
Olympia,
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Washington.
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nov 9.1942
Dear Mr. Roosevelt.
12. ack 9-42
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This Crochet Rowel was made by
a lady past 13 years and with out
the ade of glasses.
and was made for you for your
thankingiven. please occept it
with her best wishes.
Starroom
The statuary of Liberty andourflag our
This mother had sou's in the lost
are what you stand so strongly for
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War andallso this one.
Every bit of work did on this paul
was mixed with preyer's and good
wishes that our president would keep
his helth and strenght and take us
thrughto Victor andwith thede
ade of we know he will
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for right will Win
greeting to your house
frome her house
ms. gustave b. Badgley
114 E.B. Drive
she is objumpio a army mother
writen by another mothe
the
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10
December 19, 1942
My dear Mr. Burton:
In the President's behalf, I wish to
thank you for your courtesy in sending him those
patriotic posters. You may be assured that he
XPPF 9-P
appreciates your friendly thought.
Very sincerely yours,
Grace G. Tully
Private Secretary
X
J. H. Burton, Esq.,
Burton Bros, & Co., Inc.,
267 Fifth Avenue,
New York, N.Y.
cd
THE GOSPEL VOLUNTEERS OF THE WORLD,
Park-of-the Palms,
Keystone Heights, Fla.
12-8842
Sends copy of the book to the President "Thus Saith the Lord".
See P.P.F.9-G
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P.P.7
9-B
SATTERFIELD, Mrs. J. R.
BPF-9-B
Spencer, N.C.
Nov. 12, 1942. Ackd. 12/9/42.
Let. to the President, enclosing scrapbook made by her son,
Pvt. John R. Satterfield, who is in the armed forces; made book when he was
11 yrs. old. To Hyde Park Library, Series "B".
SEE: PPF 9-S
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PPI
TOBIN, Mrs. Edward
9-B
Burlington, Vt.
December 14, 1942 - filed
Letter to the President, saying she is going to send a box of Butter Nuts.
Never received.
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PP7-9-B
WIL IAMS, Ben Ames
Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Dec. 1, 1942. Ackd. 12/12/42.
Sends copy of his book to the President; to study.
SEE: PPF 9-W
ilo
PP7-9-B
STEWART, Lionel G.
Newport, R. I.
Nov. 18, 1942. Ackd. 12/10/42.
Prosident,
Sends book of stamps to the President; to study.
SEE: PPF 37-S
ilo
PPF-9-B B
PENA, Maurice R.
Rye, N.Y.
Nov. 27, 1942. Ackd. 12/11/42.
Let. to the President, enclosing inscribed booklet. To study.
SEE: PPF 9-P
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WELF
PP7 9-B
December 14, 1942
My dear Joan:
Thank you, in the President's behalf,
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for your friendly letter of November thirtieth.
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Your thought in sending the package to him 1s
9-E
indeed appreciated and I have pleasure in convey-
ing his very best vishes to you.
Very sincerely yours,
Grace G. Tully
Private Secretary
B
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Joan Becht,
711 Fairview Avenue,
Ridgewood,
cd
New York.
s
ack for 3 painted
hard boiled eggs
Hitler, Mussoline and
Telephone
Plaza 5-6335
Hiso Hito
1942
p.p.7. q-B /
Lisa Now
Time
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required 10 the
ronorea ser,
l am fourteen
to Hyde Park Manage,
you Stephen
years of age, I reside in
he Case
m across
l am in the third term
Ridgedwood New York and u sending have.
ou could
at Grover Cleveland
.ier Club,
we were
Highschool
l took the liberty
m,
of writing this letter
-y yours,
and sending the ac-
Bland
because l hold a high 5941
companying package
acNeill Bland
regard for you.
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letter is giving me quite Hyde Park Library.
writing this
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12/112
Telephone
Plaza 5-6335
Fairview aven 1942
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President Roosevelt
November, 30,1942
Los
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Honored Sir,
ferred
l am fourteen
to Hyde Park Missing,
you Stephen
years of age, I reside in
he Case
nr across
Ridgewood New York and u sending
have.
l am in the third term ou could
at Grover Cleveland
.ier Club,
we were
Highschool
of writing this letter
l took the liberty am,
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and sending the ac-
Bland
because l hold a high 5941
companying package
acNeill Bland
regard for you.
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letter is giving me quite Hyde Park Library.
writing this
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hard- boiled eggs gone soft", a thrill. In what the world other
taken his advice
as you Can see, l have country in
could an ordinary
the eggs have over the freely with his leader
One advantage that citizen correspond so
when you get tired of seem the package
"real thing is that
Strange as it may
looking at them, you contains three
can lat them.
hard boiled eggs. They
the eggs regardless
l hope you like represent powers. the afis
which their faces Come, give a beture in the school,
of the source from
l I was asked to
miss Joan Becht art of painting faces
Yours sincerely and spoke on fine
on eggs.
showing a many. He said eggs that to
One day l was
l should send the egg
to you and tell you
that they were three
COPY
BLAND gallery INC.
Cable address
45 East 57th Street
Blandart New York
New York
Telephone
Harry MacNeill Bland
Plaza 5-6335
December 16, 1942
35, SUAR
p.P.7.
The Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt
The White House
Washington, D. Optain
York q-B
Dear Mr. Roosevelt:
Some time ago, I sent you Stephen
Series MAN. A. Douglas' copy of "The* Proceedings of the Case
the General Armstrong". Since then, I ran across
another interesting pamphlet, which I am sending
you also to go with the painting which you have.
We were hoping that you could
be with us the other evening, at the Grolier Club,
when the Naval Exhibition was opened, but we were
pleased to hear Mr. Olds read your letter.
With best wishes, I am,
Sincerely yours,
(Sgd) Harry MacNeill Bland
Harry MacNeill Bland
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Orig. corres. and pamphlet (book) sent to Hyde Park Library.
RPF-9-B
MEMORANDUM
Dec. 15, 1942
On Nov. 29, 1942 Captain Antoine de Saint-Exupery wrote to the
President in French enclosing press clipping from the New York Times and a
French copy of his book "Flight to Arras". Let. referred to the State Dept.
for translation and returned. I Presidential ackd. on 12/14/42.
Original correspondence, ackd. and book to Hyde Park Library,
Series "A".
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BARRETT, Tom
PPJ-9-B
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Ackd. Dec. 15, 1942.
President's Study.
Sent calendar of the Dutchess County scenes; hanging in the
SEE: PPF 905
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December 5, 1942
P.P.7.
q-B.
My dear Mrs. Boyden:
This little note conveys the Pres-
ident's thanks to you for your courtesy in
sending on to him the novelty shells, a gift
from Mr. Dennis (Neylan of Kenya Colony,
British East Africa. He deeply appreciates
Mr. Neylan's friendly thought in wanting him
to have this gift.
xpp7
9-5
The President sends his very best
wishes to you for your health and happiness.
Very sincerely yours,
Grace G. Tully
Private Secretary
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Mrs. Amanda Mayo Boyden,
621 Pembroke Road,
Bryn Mawr,
mtl
Pennsylvania.
They
Mr thank 9.9.1. done The petum please
pr.7'3
9-B
Be V VO TOT when sue was traveling in Arrica
some time ago by
xon79-5
Mr. Dennis Neylan
Westacres, Nakuru
Kenya Colony
British East Africa,
who asked Mrs. Boyden to try to have it reach
the President.
Mr. Doyle
7/2/14/42
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Mrs Wagner: Eleve: Mrs. Amandyl Amanda gift Vania Mayo she for was the a fri trave Pre N
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Mrs. Eben:
11-17-42
Mr. Wagner:
Mrs. Amanda Mayo Boyden, 621 Pembroke Rd. ,
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, a friend, gave me the
enclosed small gift for the President, which was
given to her when she was traveling in Africa
some time ago by
xpn79-S
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Mr. Dennis Neylan
Westacres, Nakuru
Kenya Colony
British East Africa,
who asked Mrs. Boyden to try to have it reach
the President.
71414/42
Mr. Doyle
this Boyden
Buyn Than Pu
pr.7 9-B
painted shells from But East
africa - Series B
xpn79-S
pr.7'3 9-B
XPN79-S
PPF-I-B
PASMANTIER, David
New York, N.Y.
Nov. 24, 1942. Ackd. 12/12/42.
Sends three coffee brewers to the President; penciled note: "The
"p" said he would try these sometime."
SEE: PPF 9-P
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de SAINT-EXUPERY, Capt. Antoine,
New York, N.Y.
11-29-42 (ackb 12-14-42)
Letter to the President, enclosing clipping entitled "An Open Letter to
Frenchmen Everywhere" by Mr de Saint-Exppery, as it appeared in The New York Times
Magazine 11-29-42. Also sent a copy of book "Pilote de Guerre" by Antoine de
Saint Exupery. - Above transmitted through Justice Felix Frankfurter 11-30-42
Referred to State Dept for preparation of reply for President's signature 12-3-42
Presidential reply sent to Capt. de Saint-Exupery 12-14-42.
See P.P.F.9-S
P.P.7
9-B
br
PPF-9-B
EVANS, W. B.
Moorestown, N.J.
Ackd. Nov. 30, 1942.
Sends booklet to the President. To study.
ilo
SEE: PPF 9-E
PPF
9-B
CRAVIS, William B.
New York, N.Y.
December 11, 1942
Letter to Miss Tully, sending book "The Bankruptcy of Liberalism" for the
President. Book sent to the Study. Ackd. 12/15/42.
SEE - - PPF - 9 - c
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desuply
WEEHICK, Commander Ben
PPJ- 9-13
ST. LOUIS POST 110. 127
delivery
JENISH WAR VETERANS OF THE U.S.A.
St. Louis, Mo.
Ackd. Dec. 17, 1942.
Sends book to the President; to study.
SEE: PPF 9-S
ilo
P.P.F.
ISHILL, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph,
9-B
Berkeley Heights, N.J.,
December 31, 1942 - ackd.
Sends the President a little book, conveying the Season's Greetings.
fmf
See P.P.F. 9-I
9-B
STATE Department,
Dec. 3, 1942.
The President, by memo., referred for draft of reply for his signature a letter from
Maurice Loon, NYC., 11/25/42, to the President, suggesting that our Government enable
M. Henri de Kerillis to go to Africa as a Frenchman whose standing as America's friend
is well known and appreciated in this country and who wishes to bring about 6 measure
of understanding between all French leaders so that they may achieve cooperation for
the one supremely important end of freeing French territory from the enemy, leaving
other questions to be settled later. Attaches biographical sketch of Mr. de Kerillis,
and photostat of letter which Mr. Leon recieved from "Jusserand" dated 12/8/23. Also
attached is copy of "Franonis, Voici la Verite! ..." by Honri de Kerillis, and copy of
newspaper "pour Is Victoire - Journal Francais D'Amerique", dated 11/28/42 printed in
French.----The lion. George T. Summerlin, Dec. 16th, wrote to Miss Tully transmitting
the draft of reply as requested.--The President, Dec. 16th, wrote to Mr. Leon thank-
ing him for the copy of Francais, Voici la Verite! and the newspaper Four La Victoire,
and said he greatly appreciated his thoughtfulness in sending them to him.
SEE P.P.F. 8072
P.P.F.
AS
9-B
BAILLIE, Mr. Hugh, President,
P.P.F,
UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS,
New York, N.Y.,
9-B
December 17, 1942 - ackd.
Sends two books to the President, entitled, "This is the Enemy" by
Frederick Oechaner and "Balcony Empire" by Reynolds and Eleanor Packard, both
written by United Press correspondents. Books sent to Study.
See P.P.F. 9-U
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HOSPODAR, Blaise
PP7-9-B
Washington, D. C.
Dec. 11, 1942. Ackd. 12/15/42.
Sends brochure "An Early Traveler in Prague"; asks for the
President's autograph. --- Presidential ackd. on 12/15/42. -------
Original correspondence and brochure to Hyde Park Library, Series B.
Copies of orig. let. and ackd. retained for files.
SEE: PPF 9-H
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P.P.F.
DIEMAND, John A., President,
ALLIANCE INSURANCE COMPANY OF
9-B
PHILADELPHIA,
Philadelphia, Pa.,
December 10, 1942, (ackd. 12/15/42).
Sends the President a copy of the "Biography of a Business 1792 -
1942," inscribed by Mr. and Mrs. Marquis James, Acknowledgments to Mr. Die-
mand and Mr. James were signed by the President, on above date. Book sent
to Study.
See P.P.F. 9-A
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