Yours very truly,
SCHNEIDER & COMPANY.
MAURICE DEVIES.
Arles-sur-Rhone, Dec. 10th, 1916.
Mr. J. G. Butler, Jr.,
Youngstown, Ohio.
Dear Sir:—
I have received with your favor of the 19th of last November, the copy of the report which you drew up following your trip to France about the steel business in France during the war.
I have had it translated, for, as I very much regret to be obliged to tell you, I do not know the English language, which deprived me of the extreme pleasure of conversing directly with you and obliged me to remain your silent neighbor, when I had the privilege of being near you.
The reading of your report has interested me very keenly and informed us in France of many things about France.
You have been so kind as to add a very elegant piece of poetry about our two flags comprising the same colors that the sun blends in its radiant light, but which none the less preserve their symbolical import. May they continue to float thus together as formerly for the glory of our two nations, which are actuated by a common impulse, though differing in expression.