The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political
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Personal and Political
Prom the thousands of typewritten letters found in his files, and from the many holograph letters sent to me from his friends in different parts of the country, we have attempted, in this volume, to select chiefly those letters which tell the story of Franklin K. Lane's life as it unfolded itself in service to his country which was his passion. A few technical letters have been included, because they represent some incomplete and original phases of the work he attempted,—work, to which he brought an intensity of interest and devotion that usually is given only to private enterprise.
In editing his letters we have omitted much, but we have in no way changed anything that he wrote. Even where, in his haste, there has been an obvious slip of the pen, we have left it. Owing to his dictating to many stenographers, with their varying methods of punctuation and paragraphing, and because the letters that he wrote himself were often dashed off on the train, in bed, or in a hurried five minutes before some engagement, we found in them no uniformity of punctuation. In writing hastily he used only a frequent dash and periods; these letters we have made agree with those which were more formally written.
With the oncoming of war his correspondence enormously increased— the more demanded of him, the more he seemed able to accomplish. Upon opening his files it took us weeks to run through and destroy just the requests for patronage, for commissions, passports, appointments as chaplains, promotions, demands from artists who desired to work on camouflage, farmers and chemists who wished exemption, requests for appointments to the War Department; letters asking for every kind of a position from that of night- watchman to that of Brigadier-General. For his friends, and even those who had no special claim upon him, knew that they could count on his interest in them.
Franklin K. Lane
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THE LETTERS OF FRANKLIN K. LANE
PREFACE
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
DATES
FAMILY NAMES
THE LETTERS OF FRANKLIN K. LANE
II
TO JOHN H. WIGMORE
TO JOHN B. WIGMORE
III
TO LYMAN NAUGLE
TO WILLIAM R. WHEELER
TO ORVA G. WILLIAMS IROQUOIS CLUB, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
TO ISADORE B. DOCKWEILER
TO EDWARD B. WHITNEY
TO HON. THEODORE ROOSEVELT THE WHITE HOUSE
IV
TO EDWARD F. ADAMS
TO BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
TO ELIHU ROOT
TO E. B. BEARD
TO GEORGE W. LANE
TO CHARLES K. MCCLATCHY SACRAMENTO BEE
TO LAWRENCE F. ABBOTT OUTLOOK
TO JOHN H. WIGMORE
TO MRS. FRANKLIN K. LANE
TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT
TO JOHN H. WIGMORE
TO WILLIAM R. WHEELER TRAFFIC BUREAU, MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
TO LAWRENCE F. ABBOTT OUTLOOK
TO CHARLES K. MCCLATCHY SACRAMENTO BEE
TO CHARLES K. MCCLATCHY SACRAMENTO BEE
TO JOHN CRAWFORD BURNS LONDON, ENGLAND
TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT
TO SAMUEL G. BLYTHE
TO SIDNEY E. MEZES PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
TO JOHN H. WIGMORE
TO GEORGE W. LANE
TO CARL SNYDER
TO FRANKLIN K. LANE
TO OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT
TO JOHN H. WIGMORE
TO DANIEL WITTARD PRESIDENT, BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY
TO JOHN MCNAUGHT NEW YORK WORLD
V
TO ALBERT SHAW REVIEW OF REVIEWS
TO CURT G. PFEIFFER
TO GEORGE W. LANE
TO BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
TO GEORGE W. LANE
TO JOHN H. WIGMORE
TO ADOLPH C. MILLER
TO EDWARD M. HOUSE
TO BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
TO SIDNEY E. MEZES PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
VI
TO LAWRENCE F. ABBOTT OUTLOOK
TO WILLIAM M. BOLE GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE
VII
TO WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
TO JOHN CRAWFORD BURNS
TO ALEXANDER VOGELSANG
TO JOHN H. WIGMORE
TO JOHN CRAWFORD BURNS
TO EDWARD J. WHEELER
TO JOHN CRAWFORD BURNS
TO WILLIAM P. LAWLOR
TO WILLIAM G. MCADOO
TO JOHN CRAWFORD BURNS
TO E. W. SCRIPPS
TO GEORGE W. WICKERSHAM
TO FREDERIC J. LANE
TO JOHN CRAWFORD BURNS
TO EUGENE A. AVERY
TO JOHN F. DAVIS
TO JOHN CRAWFORD BURNS
TO JOHN H. WIGMORE
TO MRS. ADOLPH C. MILLER
TO MRS. MAGNUS ANDERSEN
TO MRS. ADOLPH C. MILLER
VIII
TO WILLIAM M. BOLE
TO MRS. ADOLPH C. MILLER
TO EDWARD F. ADAMS
TO WILL IRWIN
TO—
TO HON. WOODROW WILSON
TO FREDERIC J. LANE
TO FRANK I. COBB
TO GEORGE W. WICKERSHAM
TO H. B. BROUGHAM
TO FREDERIC J. LANE
TO HON. WOODROW WILSON
TO MRS. FRANKLIN K. LANE
TO MRS. ADOLPH MILLER
IX
TO FRANK I. COBB NEW YORK WORLD
TO GEORGE W. LANE
TO HON. WOODROW WILSON THE WHITE HOUSE
MANUSCRIPT NOTE
TO HON. WOODROW WILSON
TO J. O'H. COSGRAVE NEW YORK WORLD
X
NOTES ON CABINET MEETINGS
TO FRANKLIN K. LANE, JR.
TO ALBERT SHAW
TO DANIEL WILLARD PRESIDENT, BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD
TO GEORGE W. LANE
TO EDGAR C. BRADLEY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
XI
TO E. C. BRADLEY
TO GEORGE W. LANE
TO WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON ROOSEVELT PERMANENT MEMORIAL NATIONAL COMMITTEE
TO BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER PRESIDENT EMERITUS, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
TO E. S. MARTIN LIFE
TO GEORGE W. LANE
TO E. C. BRADLEY
TO—
TO M. A. MATHEW
TO HERBERT C. PELL, JR. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
TO HENRY P. DAVISON
TO GEORGE W. LANE
TO C. S. JACKSON OREGON JOURNAL
TO JOHN CRAWFORD BURNS
TO FRANK I. COBB NEW YORK WORLD
TO MRS. LOUISE HERRICK WATT
TO MRS. M. A. ANDERSEN
TO GEORGE W. LANE
TO EAMLIN GARLAND
TO ADMIRAL CARY GRAYSON
TO HERBERT C. PELL, JR. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
TO HON. WOODROW WILSON THE WHITE HOUSE
TO FRANK W. MONDELL
TO ROBERT W. DE FOREST
XII
TO WILLIAM PHELPS ENO
TO ROLAND COTTON SMITH
TO JAMES M. COX DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT
TO TIMOTHY SPELLACY
TO ISADORE B. DOCKWEILER
TO MRS. GEORGE EHLE
TO BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER
TO JOHN W. HALLOWETT
TO ROBERT LANSING
XIII
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