Very truly yours,
(Signed) WOODROW WILSON.
Hon. Dudley Field Malone,
Collector of Customs,
New York City.
To this Mr. Malone replied:
New York, N.Y.,
September 15th, 1917.
The President,
The White House,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. President:
Thank you sincerely for your courtesy, for I knew you were on a well-earned holiday and I did not expect an earlier reply to my letter of September 7th, 1917.
After a most careful re-reading of my letter, I am unable to understand how you could judge that any discussion by you of my reasons for resigning would not be acceptable to me since my letter was an appeal to you on specific grounds for action now by the Administration on the Federal Suffrage amendment.
However, I am profoundly grateful to you for your prompt acceptance of my resignation.
Yours respectfully,
(Signed) DUDLEY FIELD MALONE.