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The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly

The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly

 

VOLUME 64 * NUMBER 2 * APRIL 1955

 

 

 

The Correspondence of George A. Myers

and James Ford Rhodes, 1910-1923-II

Edited by JOHN A. GARRATY

 

 

RHODES TO MYERS, Boston, January 7, 1913.*

Dear George: I do not wonder that you were irritated in not getting

an earlier answer to yours of Oct. 15 last but I have been very busy

since my return from Seal Harbor without however accomplishing

very much.1 In the first place I have had some unsatisfactory in-

vestments to look after and have had to grapple with the problem,

how to make a diminishing income jibe with increasing expense.

The beautiful autumn days tempted me to leave my desk to go out

in a hired automobile or to accompany one of my wealthy acquaint-

ances in his own car. Soon we were in the month of December

with the Historical & Institute dinners in New York and finally the

Historical Assn. meeting here between Christmas & New Years. As

I told you, Mr. Roosevelt was our President and I saw much of him.

He was as courteous and deferential as any man could be; his ad-

dress in Symphony Hall2 was a real masterpiece. I had the honor of

giving him a large luncheon at my house and I had two long talks

with him in which the subject of present politics was not referred to.

Truly he is a wonderful man and the more I see of him, the more

 

*This is the second installment of the Myers-Rhodes correspondence, the first having

appeared in the January issue, pages 1-29. An extended introduction by the editor of

the letters was published with the first installment.

1 Myers had evidently written to ask if Rhodes had received his letter of October 15,

1912, but there is no record of such a letter in the Rhodes papers.

2 Roosevelt's presidential address to the American Historical Association was en-

titled "History as Literature." It is conveniently reprinted in Hermann Hagedorn, ed.,

The Works of Theodore Roosevelt (New York, 1923-26), XII, 3-24.

 

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