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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...call your attention to a statement in your issue of Dec. 7 under POLITICAL NOTES-"Il Penseroso," where you say of Mr. Robert Todd Lincoln, "In 1889 President Harrison sent him to London as Am- bassador." If my recollection is correct the first Ambassador sent to a regular diplomatic post of the U. S. abroad was Thomas P. Bayard of my native state of Delaware who was sent to the Court of St. James's by President Cleveland after the latter became President for his second term in 1898. Mr. Bayard had as you know been Cleveland...
...correct figure was 4,404,247 knots in ten months...
Perhaps Mr. Farrar's diagnosis of the American frame of mind is incorrect; perhaps he does Americans a great injustice; perhaps he credits them with a virtue which they do not deserve. But if his diagnosis he correct, wherefore be sorrowful? Perhaps the beauties of serene contemplation are lost upon Mr. Farrar completely, but certainly be fails to perceive the possibilities of such contemplation in the particular case of the American people. The present American frame of mind is hardly a thing to be admired; but its future is promising. It is not beyond the limits of the possible that...
...looking over your issue of Nov. 30, I see that in spite of correct information given you, you still fail to list Craig's Wife among the most important of the "serious" plays "in the light of metropolitan criticism...
Sirs: I wish to advise you that your estimate on the University of Pittsburgh football team as it appeared against W. & J., was quite correct in spite of what Mr. John S. Cramer has written...