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TO LEVERMORE, JUNE 1, 1905
TO LEVERMORE, JUNE 1, 1905
June 1, 1905.
Dr. C. H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
My dear Dr. Levermore:
At the breakfast to President Roosevelt on Tuesday, Mr. Herman A. Metz was among those in attendance. I told him his name had been mentioned in connection with the trusteeship of Adelphi College and he immediately replied that he would like to be of service to the institution, and if he thought he could be of service in that capacity, he would be glad to do so. Of course, I did not offer him the trusteeship but only spoke of it; he is available, however, and I think he would make a good man.
I did not get back to New York until late on Monday and am, therefore, deluged with business and other matters. I have only five more days before sailing for Europe, and have just found that I must go to Albany tomorrow. I, therefore, fear it will be impossible for me to visit the College before my departure. I can meet you and some of the others, if it is absolutely necessary, before I go - possibly Saturday afternoon. I do not see how I can see you before that time and it will be difficult for me to do even that.
Hoping everything is getting along nicely with you.
Yours very sincerely, -
TO LEVERMORE, APRIL 20, 1904
TO LEVERMORE, APRIL 20, 1904
Letterhead
April 20, 1904.
Dr. Charles H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn.
My dear Dr. Levermore:
I was very sorry not to have been able to attend the meeting on Monday evening. Will try to see you in the very near future. You can imagine how extremely busy I am after an absence of three weeks from the office and for sometime before that I was unable to give much attention to business.
What is the date of Adelphi Commencement? I am planning to be away most all of June. I must spend ten days in the West on business and a week in Chicago at the Republican National Convention and nearly a week in New Have at my twenty-fifth anniversary of graduation and John's graduation. I shall make every possible effort to so arrange matters as to be present at Commencement.
Hoping everything is getting along nicely with you, I beg to remain -
Yours very sincerely, -
TO LEVERMORE, OCTOBER 11, 1904
TO LEVERMORE, OCTOBER 11, 1904
October 11th, 1904.
Dr. C. H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn.
My dear Levermore:
I am in receipt of yours of October 8th, and agree with all you say about the consolidation of the Brooklyn Collegiate Schools. I will be on hand on the evening of the nineteenth to attend the Board Meeting.
With best wishes, believe me,
Yours very sincerely, -
TO LEVERMORE, JANUARY 22, 1904
TO LEVERMORE, JANUARY 22, 1904
January 22, 1904.
Dr. Charles H. Levermore,
Adelphi Academy,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
My dear Dr. Levermore:
I certainly think it is all right to get the Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, if you can do so. He would be quite a card, I think, and it would probably be desirable to suggest to him that his expenses, etc., will be paid.
I hardly think I could get a pass to Florida although I will try to arrange it. I have always understood that it was very hard. I have never tried to get a pass for myself or for any one else.
With best wishes, believe me,
Sincerely yours, -
TO LEVERMORE, APRIL 25, 1904
TO LEVERMORE, APRIL 25, 1904
April 25, 1904.
Mr. C. H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
My dear Dr. Levermore:
I am very sorry to have to report that Dr. McKelway cannot deliver the address for Commencement, as he is to deliver one at some College in Missouri that very night. If there is anything further I can do, let me know, as I am ready to help you to the best of my ability.
Sincerely yours, -
TO LEVERMORE, DECEMBER 24, 1903
TO LEVERMORE, DECEMBER 24, 1903
24th December 1903.
Dr. Charles H. Levermore,
St. James Place near Lafayette Ave.,
Brooklyn.
My dear Levermore:
Am I correct in understanding that there is to be a meeting of the Board of Trustees of Adelphi College next Monday evening. It seems unusual to have a meeting during the vacation. If there is to be a meeting on Monday night, I will make every effort to attend, and feel quite certain that I shall be able to do see.
Kindly remember me to Mrs. Levermore, and trusting you are all well and with best wishes for a Merry Christmas, believe me,
Sincerely yours, -
TO LEVERMORE, FEBRUARY 15, 1905
TO LEVERMORE, FEBRUARY 15, 1905
February 15, 1905.
Dr. Charles A. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
My dear Levermore:
Since writing to you the other day about attending Comptroller Grout's dinner, I find that it will be impossible for me to attend. It was my intention at that time to attend the dinner and take the 11.30 train that night to Albany, there joining a party of gentlemen whom I invited to visit my camp in the Adirondacks. Sunday, however, I learned that Senator Allds (who has the arrangements in charge) had arranged for a special car to be attached to the night train leaving Albany at 11.15 on Thursday night, the 23rd, and had so notified the twenty gentlemen whom I had invited. Beside this, they have arranged for a dinner - at which I am to be the guest - on that evening, the plan being to go directly from the dinner to the train. As Governor Higgins, Comptroller Kelsey, Secretary of State O'Brien, and a number of the members of the Senate, ate in the party, it is absolutely imperative that I should be in Albany early on Thursday. I am going to Syracuse tonight and will be back in New York a week from next Monday, at which time I would like to hear from you about Grout's plans. Will you not be kind kind enough to write me at that time about the whole scheme, what you think about it, etc., etc.
With best wishes, believe me,
Yours very sincerely, -
TO LEVERMORE, FEBRUARY 13, 1903
TO LEVERMORE, FEBRUARY 13, 1903
Feb. 12, 1903.
Dic. T.L.W.
Dr. Charles H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
My Dear Levermore:-
I am in receipt of your favor, and will write to whomever you want me to about delivering the Commencement Oration whenever you get ready.
You ask me about a spring reception - Endowment Day. I thought that had been abandoned from what Judge Crane said to me. I have some doubt as to the advisability of the undertaking. I certainly am in no position to give it any time or attention as I am now situated.
With best wishes,
Yours very sincerely,
M S -
TO LEVERMORE, FEBRUARY 23, 1903
TO LEVERMORE, FEBRUARY 23, 1903
Feb. 22, 1903.
Dic. T.L.W.
Dr. Charles H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
My Dear Levermore:-
I am in receipt of yours of the 17th inst. on my return to Syracuse.
I will write at once to Senator Depew.
I am going to leave here Friday noon for the purpose of attending our class dinner at the Yale Club Friday night, and hope to see you there.
With best wishes,
Yours sincerely,
M S -
TO LEVERMORE, FEBRUARY 9, 1905
TO LEVERMORE, FEBRUARY 9, 1905
February 9th, 1905.
Dr. Charles A. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
My dear Levermore:
I received yours of the 28th ulto., but have actually not had time to write even a line in acknowledgment. I will see you as soon as I can - anyway on the 23rd at the dinner that Grout is going to give at the Brooklyn Club and to which, he told me yesterday, you had been invited. It is going to be very inconvenient for me to get there, but I told Grout I would because it seems to me his scheme is worthy of our consideration and attention at almost any cost. You may not be familiar with it. I did not know much about it until yesterday. He proposes the establishment of a great City University on a site near the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and near where the new library is to be built. His idea is to have Adelphi, Polytechnic and Packer all go into it. I did not have time to go into the details with him, but thought there would be plenty of time for that at the dinner on the 23rd, to which he is inviting the representatives of these three institutions. I will try to see you before that time, if it is possible, but I am going to Syracuse in a day or two and may not be back before the dinner.
Yours very sincerely, -
TO LEVERMORE, JANUARY 13, 1904
TO LEVERMORE, JANUARY 13, 1904
13th January 1904.
Dr. Charles H. Levermore,
Adelphi Academy,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
My dear Levermore:
Answering your letter of recent date, I do not know how you could possibly get a better Commencement Orator than Woodrow Wilson of Princeton. I think you had better try to get him if you possibly can. I never heard of the Rev. A. H. Bradford and, therefore, between the two, it would seem to me that Wilson would be the most attractive.
I think the Baptist Temple is the best place in which to hold the exercises. I certainly would not consider the Columbia Theatre and I never thought well of the Grand Opera House. I have never been in the Baptist Temple, but from what was said the other day at the Board Meeting, I think it would be the best place.
With best wishes, believe me,
Sincerely yours, -
TO LEVERMORE, JANUARY 17, 1905
TO LEVERMORE, JANUARY 17, 1905
Syracuse, N.Y., Jan. 17, 1905.
Dr. Chas. H. Levermore,
President Adelphi College,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
My dear Levermore:-
I am enclosing a letter received from Mr. Whitelaw Reid, about which my Secretary inform me you have been notified. I thought, however, you might like to see the letter.
With best wishes,
Yours very sincerely,
Enclosure -
TO LEVERMORE, JANUARY 27, 1905
TO LEVERMORE, JANUARY 27, 1905
January 27, 1905.
Mr. C. H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Dear Sir:
Your letter of the 25th inst. is at hand. Mr. Woodruff is in Syracuse, and does not expect to return before the 13th of February. He regrets sincerely that it will not be possible for him to be present at the College Convocation, to be held on the 31st, and extends his very best wishes for a pleasant and profitable meeting.
Yours very truly, -
TO LEVERMORE, JANUARY 22, 1906
TO LEVERMORE, JANUARY 22, 1906
January 22, 1906.
Dr. Chas. H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn.
My dear Dr. Levermore:
I am in receipt this morning of your letter about McKelway, and am going to Albany tomorrow more for the purpose of doing what I can to see that Mr. McKelway is re-elected than for anything else. I had a talk with Mr. Peters the other day, and from our conversation, I certainly thought that he would desist. I was astonished to learn yesterday that his friends had not given up the effort to elect him. I will spend whatever time is necessary in Albany tomorrow on the matter and believe it can be arranged satisfactorily
Yours very sincerely, -
TO LEVERMORE, MARCH 17, 1904
TO LEVERMORE, MARCH 17, 1904
March 17, 1904.
Dr. Charles H. Levermore,
Adelphi Academy,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
My dear Dr. Levermore:
I received your letter yesterday about the Heffley Bill, and sent it to Senator Marshall, thinking that he would appreciate and handle it all right. I asked him to consider it strictly confidential. I am now in receipt of the enclosed letter from Heffley, which I think satisfactorily explains the situation.
I thank you for your kindness in implying about Mrs. Woodruff's condition. We had Dr. Janeway in consultation yesterday and today. She seems to be a little more comfortable, but still a very sick woman.
With best wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, -
TO LEVERMORE, MARCH 21, 1904
TO LEVERMORE, MARCH 21, 1904
March 21, 1904.
Dr. Charles H. Levermore,
Adelphi Academy,
Brooklyn.
My dear Dr. Levermore:
I note your suggestion in yours of the 19th inst., that we secure the Chinese Minister for Commencement. Do you not think it is a little on the circus order? It strikes me that way. He would furnish a striking spectacle in his magnificent regala, and would probably read a pretty fair address. It is true he is a man of American education, graduating, as you probably know, from Andover where he was preparing for Yale, and was baout to enter the University when he was recalled by his Government. If upon further consideration of this matter, you still think it is the thing to do, I will write him. I know him, personally, very well. He was on the Andover-nine when I was on the Exeter-nine. We had two very interesting talks this winter - one on the occasion of a dinner at the Lotus Club and one on the occasion of a dinner at the White House, about his academic days. The only thing that I am afraid of is that it will look a little strange, and as though we were seeking the unusual, which does not commend itself to me in connection with exercise such as the Commencement Exercises, which should be decidedly dignified. However, think it over and I will do the same. It may possibly be the best we can do.
Yours very sincerely, -
TO LEVERMORE, MARCH 14, 1904
TO LEVERMORE, MARCH 14, 1904
March 14, 1904.
Dr. Charles H. Levermore,
Adelphi Academy,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
My dear Levermore:
I am sorry to say that Mrs. Woodruff is very ill and I do not think it will be possible for me to attend the next meeting of the Board of Trustees. I returned to the City on Saturday night, after a trip to Syracuse, and found her much worse and yesterday her condition was alarming. I hope you will have me excused from the meeting, if you do not hear further from me. I hope to be with you later on and to see you at an early date.
Yours very sincerely, -
TO LEVERMORE, MARCH 30, 1905
TO LEVERMORE, MARCH 30, 1905
March 30th, 1905.
Dr. Chas. H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn.
Dear Mr. Levermore:
Please accept my thanks for your prompt reply to my recent letter requesting names for announcement cards. These were received this morning and I am very much obliged to you.
Yours very sincerely, -
TO LEVERMORE, MAY 4, 1905
TO LEVERMORE, MAY 4, 1905
May 4, 1905.
Dr. C. H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn.
My dear Dr. Levermore:
Your letter of April 24th, has just been received by me upon my return to the City from camp. I will try to have an interview with Mr. Carnegie before I go to Europe on the 6th of June.
Yours very sincerely,
P.S. My secretary has just called my attention to the fact that Mr. Carnegie was reported recently to have left America for Scotland. What do you know about this? -
TO LEVERMORE, MAY 18, 1905
TO LEVERMORE, MAY 18, 1905
Syracuse, N.Y. May 18, 1905.
Dr. Charles H. Levermore,
President Adelphi College,
LaFayette Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y.
My dear Dr. Levermore:-
I was obliged to have the diplomas that were sent to me in New York shipped up here for me to sign. I am returning them by express to-day addressed to you. I will have to sign the others between the 31st of May and the night of the 5th of June, as I shall sail for Europe on the 6th of June. I think probably the best day for me would be either the 1st or the 2nd of June at my office, 339 Broadway, New York.
Yours very sincerely, -
TO LEVERMORE, MAY 8, 1905
TO LEVERMORE, MAY 8, 1905
May 8, 1905.
Dr. Chas. H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn.
My dear Dr. Levermore:
I am in receipt this morning of your letter of the 5th inst. I will try to get an opportunity to talk with Mr. Rossiter and Mr. Palmer about your idea of selling the present playing field and purchasing a larger and cheaper one further out.
The next meeting of the Board, I believe, will be held on Monday, the 29th of May. I see no reason why I cannot be present. I am going to attend my son's wedding in Columbus which takes place on the 25th, and expect to be back in New York on Saturday, the 27th. I hope to see you in the meantime.
Yours very sincerely, -
TO LEVERMORE, SEPTEMBER 28, 1906
TO LEVERMORE, SEPTEMBER 28, 1906
Sept. 28th, 06.
Dr. Charles H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
My dear Dr. Levermore:-
Your kind favor of 27th inst. has been duly received and I heartily thank you for your generous expression regarding myself.
Seldom, if ever, has a Republican State Convention adjourned with such good feeling and more confident of victory at the polls.
I note your reference to a matter in connection with the College. I will not be able to give this question any attention until after election is over. If you will call my attention to the subject later on I will be glad to consider it.
With best wishes, I beg to remain
Very sincerely yours, -
GRIFFIN TO LEVERMORE, JANUARY 16, 1905
GRIFFIN TO LEVERMORE, JANUARY 16, 1905
January 16. 1905.
Mr. Charles H. Levermore
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Dear Sir:
On January 10th, Mr. Woodruff wrote you that he had asked Mr. Reid to deliver an address at the College Convocation the 31st of this month.
We have a letter this morning from Mr. Reid. In which he state that it will be impossible for him to be present. as he has an engagement for that date.
He wishes to have conveyed to the Board his sincere regrets that he is unable to respond to the first call of the kind from Brooklyn, since he became Chancellor.
Mr. Woodruff is out of the city, but expects to return about the 20th.
Yours very truly. -
TO LEVERMORE, JANUARY 18, 1904
TO LEVERMORE, JANUARY 18, 1904
18th January 1904.
Dr. Charles H. Levermore,
Adelphi Academy,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
My dear Dr. Levermore:
I am in receipt of yours of the 14th instant, and can see no harm in trying to get Wilson this year. You are just as likely to get him this year as next, and I hardly think that Littleton comes up to our requirements in anything other than oratorical ability. I do not mean to disparage him, for I really think highly of him, and perhaps we can do no better, but it is certainly falling far short from the Woodrow Wilson proposition.
As you know, I thoroughly approve of the Montauk for the commencement exercises.
Sincerely yours, -
TO LEVERMORE, DECEMBER 29, 1903
TO LEVERMORE, DECEMBER 29, 1903
29th December 1903.
Dr. Charles Levermore,
Adelphi Academy,
Brooklyn.
My dear Dr. Levermore:
I am taking this means of introducing to you Miss Ruth White, concerning whom, as you will remember, I had I had a long talk with you last night. I wish you would give her case very consideration and advise her what course she should pursue. I beg to remain,
Sincerely yours, -
TO LEVERMORE, MAY 15, 1905
TO LEVERMORE, MAY 15, 1905
May 15, 1905.
Dr. C. H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn.
My dear Dr. Levermore:
I am in receipt of your letter written on the 11th inst. It will be impossible for Mrs. Woodruff and me to visit Adelphi this week, as we leave tomorrow for Syracuse and from there are going to Columbus to attend my son's wedding. We expect to be back on Monday, the 29th of May, and between the thirtieth (which is a holiday) and our departure for Europe on the 6th of June, we hope to visit the College. During that week, I will try my best to meet you and the other member of the Executive Committee.
About Herman A. Metz - I agree with all you say. I met him quite recently at a dinner of the Brooklyn Riding & Driving Club. I was favorably impressed with him and found he was quite popular with those who were present. He is one of the most progressive and active men in Brooklyn and I should think would make an admirable trustee.
Yours very sincerely, -
GRIFFIN TO LEVERMORE, MARCH 28, 1904
GRIFFIN TO LEVERMORE, MARCH 28, 1904
March 28, 1904.
Dr. Charles H. Levermore,
Adelphi Academy,
Brooklyn.
Dear Sir:
Your letter of the 25th instant, has been opened by me in Mr. Woodruff's absence from the office owing to a change for the worse in Mrs. Woodruff's condition. It will be called to his attention immediately upon his return.
Yours very truly,
Secretary. -
TO LEVERMORE, FEBRUARY 11, 1904
TO LEVERMORE, FEBRUARY 11, 1904
February 11, 1904.
Dr. Charles H. Levermore,
Adelphi Academy,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
My dear Dr. Levermore:
I understand that the Unification Bill is to be passed without any amendments and that no power on earth can induce those having it in charge to alter it in any particular. The purpose is to have the Commissioner elected by the Legislature just as the Superintendent of Public Education has been elected in the past. You have probably noticed that yesterday a joint session of the Legislature convened and adjourned to a date early in March. It is proposed to pass the Unification Bill before that date and on the day before action is taken, elect a Commissioner. The matter is beyond any effort of ours, I am sure.
I have been summoned to a conference in Albany at four o'clock next Monday afternoon. If Mrs. Woodruff's condition will permit, I shall go up on the 12.50 train, returning that evening, or possibly going on to Syracuse to spend Tuesday morning. You will see, therefore, how impossible it will be for me to attend the meeting of the Board of Trustees on Monday next, from which, I trust, you will have me excused.
While I am in Albany on Monday, I will talk with the Governor and others about the Unification Bill, but the situation is, I am sure, as I have above set forth.
Yours very sincerely, -
TO LEVERMORE, APRIL 28, 1904
TO LEVERMORE, APRIL 28, 1904
April 28, 1904.
Dr. Charles H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn.
My dear Levermore:
The next meeting of the Board, I believe, will regularly take place on Monday the sixteenth of May. I think I am correct in the belief that the Board Meetings are held the third Monday in the month. Now, I cannot be in the City on that date. In talking with Mr. Rossiter last evening about it, he suggested that it was important that I should be present at this annual meeting and advised the calling of the meeting in the regular way and the sending of a notice that owing to my inability to be present, the meeting would be adjourned or postponed until a later date, which I would suggest - if you approve of the plan - be Thursday May twenty-sixth. Then just before that meeting it might be well to send a special plea to each member of the Board to attend. I am still trying to arrange matters so as to be with you on Commencement, June 14th, but I have considerable doubt as to my ability to do so. That is the date I should be in the far West. You know that during the entire winter, on account of Mrs. Woodruff's condition, I who obliged to neglect my business interests to a very considerable extent. I only went to Syracuse two or three time for a day or so at a time, and was unable to go out among our branch offices which I felt was very desirable. It would seem as though I must do it now, especially in view of the fact that I am going to Europe to look after our business interests over there on the first of July. I hope everything is getting along nicely with you.
Sincerely yours, -
TO LEVERMORE, APRIL 19, 1905
TO LEVERMORE, APRIL 19, 1905
April 19, 1905.
Dr. Chas. H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn.
My dear Dr. Levermore:
I received word on Monday afternoon from Miss Scharff that she would like to see me on Tuesday. I telegraphed her that she could see me at noon, or at three o'clock. I received a telephone message the next day that she would call at three o'clock and I spent a lot of time between then and three o'clock trying to get you on the telephone at Adelphi College, and subsequently learned that the telephone was out of order. She put in an appearance at three o'clock and demanded to know why she had been "fired". She said you would not give her any reason and simply reiterated that you were most devoted to her and very fond of her, etc. etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc', etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.
Before she left I made up my mind that I had discovered why she had been "fired".
This morning Mr. Rossiter called me up to say that Coler had paid his $1000. subscription, and (Mr. Smith who is sitting next to me listening to this dictation says "Don't you know that he expects to run for Mayor this fall) in the course of the conversation with Rossiter I told him of Miss Scharff's call. He then told me about the letter you had written to him setting forth the reasons for the offer of the three months' pay in in lieu of discontinuing her services. She uttered some threats in her letter making for an interview and also in her conversation with me, and I told her I thought she was very foolish, for her own good; that the College could not possibly suffer thereby and I feared she would. I am glad that the Atlantic Ocean will soon separate us.
Yours very sincerely, -
DYKES TO LEVERMORE, SEPTEMBER 24, 1909
DYKES TO LEVERMORE, SEPTEMBER 24, 1909
RKD LT Sept. 24, 1909
Dr. Chas. H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Dear sir:-
We desire to advise that in pursuance with instructions received from Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff, we have today shipped to you by U.S. Express one of our latest #10 model machines.
Trusting the same reaches you in due time and in good order, we remain.
Yours respectfully,
The Smith Premier Typewriter Co. -
TO LEVERMORE, JANUARY 18, 1904
TO LEVERMORE, JANUARY 18, 1904
13th January 1904.
Dr. Charles H. Levermore,
Adelphi Academy,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
My dear Levermore:
Answering your letter of recent date, I do not know how you could possibly get a better Commencement Orator than Woodrow Wilson of Princeton. I think you had better try to get him if you possibly can. I never heard of the Rev. A. H. Bradford and, therefore, between the two, it would seem to me that Wilson would be the most attractive.
I think the Baptist Temple is the best place in Which to hold the exercises. I certainly would not consider the Columbia Theatre and I never thought well of the Grand Opera House. I have never been in the Baptist Temple, but from what was said the other day at the Board Meeting, I think it would be the best place.
With best wishes, believe me,
Sincerely yours, -
TO LEVERMORE, FEBRUARY 11, 1903
TO LEVERMORE, FEBRUARY 11, 1903
Feb. 11, 1903.
Dic. T. L. W.
Dr. Charles H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
My dear Levermore:-
You have probably learned by this time of my new business connections. I am sending you to-day Syracuse papers which will explain what I have not time to set forth in a letter, for I am overwhelmed with work.
I should think Senator Hoar would be a good man, although he is pretty old and could not, I think make himdself heard in the Academy. You know, perhaps that he can, and, if so, I would secure him if I were you. How about Lodge if you cannot get Hoar?
I think Mr. Herman Metz would do all right on the Board. I believe he is the kind of a man we want, but I heard a reflection upon him which probably had no foundation, and may have been the result of some political jealousy. I am sure you could not get a better man than Mr. Kimball and hope you will succeed in getting him.
If it is possible for me to be in New York February 27, I shall attend the class dinner at the Yale Club. I have undertaken an enormous contract in the management of this business. I think you know I was largely interested in it financially, and when the Smith Brothers, four in number, occupied the offices of President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer and Manager, all resigned somebody possessed of a reasonable degree of nerve, energy and acquaintance with the business to take hold of it fearlessly had to step to the front. I am yet unable to state how much time or attention it is going to take in Syracuse, but it may be months before I can get away from here except for a day, or two, at a time.
I wish you would write me from time to time how the College is getting along, and I will do everything I can to help you through the medium of correspondence until I can be with you again.
With best wishes, I remain,
Yours very sincerely, -
TO LEVERMORE, MARCH 1, 1905
TO LEVERMORE, MARCH 1, 1905
March 1, 1905.
Dr. Chas. A. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
My dear Levermore:
I am in receipt of your three communications of the 22nd, 24th and 27th of February.
I thank you for your congratulations on my impending marriage, which you refer to as having been announced, no doubt, with my authority. It has not been announced with my authority; but so sensational has the newspaper press nowadays become, that one's private, domestic affairs are as much used for the purpose of increasing circulation as are the affairs of public men or the affairs of State. However, it is a fact that I am to be married and I am glad to receive the congratulations of my immediate friends. I thank you for your expression of confidence and affection.
I will attend the meeting on Monday night, the 13th, and then talk with you about the deal with Pratt High School. I cannot arrive at a conclusion as to what is best to be done, without talking the matter over with you and being better posted than I am at the present time.
I agree with you that the three lady members of the Board could serve the institution much better in the capacity you suggest, and thus make room for three men upon the Board who could be more surely counted upon to attend our meetings.
About Miss Mae M. Hall, now in the employ of the Government at Ellis Island, being transferred to a place in the Brooklyn Post Office, I will have my Secretary, Mr. Smith, take the matter up with Postmaster Roberts and others, and see if anything can be done for her. Of course, a vacancy will have to be found before such transfer can possibly be made.
I read, with much interest, your description of Comptroller Grout's dinner. I met him at lunch today and he asked me to attend the meeting of the Committee of One Hundred tomorrow afternoon, which was the first knowledge I had that a Committee had been appointed, or was to hold a meeting. I told him I could not
the meeting because I was going to Washington on the 12.55 train tomorrow, having an engagement there tomorrow evening. He then wanted me to write him a letter to be read at the meeting expressing my advocacy of his scheme. I told him I was not prepared to take a definite position with regard to the proposition. I told him I must certainly consult you and my fellow trustees of Adelphi Board before I even expressed a personal opinion. I asked him if you were on the Committee and he said of course you were. Therefore, I presume you will be present tomorrow afternoon. It is just as well for me not to be there as I would certainly have to say something and it looks to me as though the matter would take shape without our having any participation in the direction or shaping of the course which will be eventually pursued. I mean by that to refer to the attitude of the Polytechnic Alumni, which Mr. Grout said was hostile to his scheme. As you know, from what I said, I think a consolidation of the institutions is a good thing and probably it might be a good you will attend the meeting tomorrow afternoon, and without committing yourself one way or the other, learn the views of all the others who are prepared to express themselves.
I see no objection to the insertion in the catalogue of the paragraph embodied in your letter of the 27th. I am willing to take the responsibility of saying "go ahead." We will bring the matter before the Board, if necessary, at the meeting on the 13th, when I am sure our action will be ratified.
Relative to the closing paragraph in your letter of the 27th, let me reiterate what I have said, that the matter will shape itself without our being obliged to take the initiative. At all events, let's see what transpires between now and the 13th, a week from next Monday, and then we will discuss it. I go to Washington tomorrow and will not be back in the City until a week from today.
Yours very sincerely, -
TO LEVERMORE, APRIL 21, 1904
TO LEVERMORE, APRIL 21, 1904
April 21, 1904.
Dr. Charles H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn.
My dear Levermore:
I received your letter of the 20th, and the same mail brought a letter from the Chinese Minister saying that he cannot accept the invitation. I am sure it will be impossible to get a man like Senator Beveridge for our Commencement on the fourteenth, which is the week proceding the National Convention at Chicago. I had planned to go West about the end of the week preceding the week of Commencement and getting in Chicago in time for the National Convention. I am sorry to find that Commencement falls on the 14th of June. I will, however, try to adjust my business affairs so as to be on hand.
I am sorry to hear about Gilmore. I spent the evening with him ten days ago and he did not refer to the matter.
I think you did well in accepting the resignations of Johnson, Coler, Briggs and Jamison, and I think the three men you have decided to elect are all good men, although I only know one, McDermott, personally. By the way, did Cora ever pay his subscription!
About the Commencement orator, you will have to do the best you can. I presume it will be all right to get Mr. Taylor, although it is unfortunate that we cannot get a man with some reputation. I am too busy to do anything on this line now, and I think it is imperative that you get somebody immediately. I have been away from the office, off and on, for the past three months and absent altogether for the past three weeks, so you can, perhaps, imagine how busy I am and what on accumulation of mail there is to answer.
Believe me with best wishes,
Yours very sincerely, -
TO LEVERMORE, APRIL 23, 1904
TO LEVERMORE, APRIL 23, 1904
23rd April 1904.
Dr. C. H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
My dear Dr. Levermore:
Yours of the 22nd received. Your suggestion about McKelway is a good one and I am going to act upon, it at once, and write to him. Will follow it up by trying to see him tomorrow or Monday. Sorry to hear that Coler is in trouble. You know how I always felt about him; but under the circumstances, he has my sympathy.
Sincerely yours, -
TO LEVERMORE, APRIL 25, 1904
TO LEVERMORE, APRIL 25, 1904
25th April 1904
Dr. Charles H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
My dear Dr. Levermore,
I enclose a letter received from Mr. Koos,
a man I have known for several years who is rather peculiar, but he is earnest and worthy of consideration.
Yours very sincerely, -
GRIFFIN TO LEVERMORE, MARCH 31, 1904
GRIFFIN TO LEVERMORE, MARCH 31, 1904
March 31, 1904
Dr. Charles H. Levermore,
Adelphi Academy,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Dear Sir:
I called Mr. Woodruff's attention last evening to your letter of the 25th instant, regarding the Chinese Minister, and as the time is getting short, he asked me to write to him, which I have done, and enclose you a copy of that letter. As soon as I hear from him, I will let you know.
Mr. Woodruff wanted me to suggest to you that you write to Governor Odell about about the Heffley school business.
Yours very truly,
Secretary. -
GRIFFIN TO LEVERMORE, DECEMBER 13, 1909
GRIFFIN TO LEVERMORE, DECEMBER 13, 1909
December 13/09.
Dr. Charles H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn.
My dear Dr. Levermore,
Mr. Woodruff is in receipt of your letter of December 9th and directs me to say to you that he has another engagement for Thursday evening, December 23rd, in the Bronx and, therefore, will be unable to attend the Smoker that you mention.
Yours very truly,
Secretary.
AES -
TO LEVERMORE, DECEMBER 8, 1904
TO LEVERMORE, DECEMBER 8, 1904
December 8, 1904.
Dr. Chas. H. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
My dear Levermore:
I am in receipt of yours of the 3rd inst., but have not had a chance to reply to it before. It seems too bad to have the Board Meeting on Monday, the 19th, in vire of the entertainment by the Alumnae Association. I think a night later in that week could be better for me. The Englisha and European managers of this Company are coming here, one arriving tomorrow and one a week from yesterday and I must necessarily give them my attention in Syracuse. I should be there, as I wrote you, in the 19th. How would Thursday, the 22nd suit? Thursday is a pretty good night in the week and it is far enough before the Holidays, which begin on Saturday, to insure the presence in the City of all the members.
I had a talk with Mr. Starr J. Murphy. It is impossible to get him to think of serving on the Board, for reasons which I will explain to you when I see you. He was lunching with Frank Babbott and Babbott heard the conversation. It resulted in his making the suggestion that he knew a man who would be of great service to us, he thought, on the Board. He promised to see this man and let me hear from him in the course of a few days. He preferred not to mention the man's name. We then took up and discussed at considerable length, the consolidation of Adelphi, Polytechnic and Packard. It seemed to interest Murphy. He said he did not believe however, that the Rockefellers could be interest to such an extent as to warrant such an undertaking, in view of what they had to do for the Chicago University. I urged that it would not require such a tremendous expenditure as we could sell the present properties to good advantage and buy land on the Eastern Parkway. I will talk with you about this when I see you.
If you decide to have the meeting on the 22nd, or for that matter on the 19th, will you kindly telegraph to me, addressing my c/o The Smith Premier Typewriter Co., so that I can make my plans accordingly. I think it would be well to write a personal letter to all the members of the Board, urging them to attend.
With best wishes,
Yours very truly, -
TO LEVERMORE, AUGUST 10, 1905
TO LEVERMORE, AUGUST 10, 1905
August 10, 1905.
Dr Charles H. Levermore,
Douglas Hill, Maine.
My dear Levemore:
I am only in the City for a day, having arrived late last evening, and am going to the Adirondacks tonight for a day or two, and from there to Syracuse, where I shall have to remain all of next week. On my return to the City the week after next. I will try to see Mr. Murphy and others in connection with the Rockefeller gift. I am not sure but that your suggestion of calling a meeting early in September, notifying Mr. Nichols and others of the "Poly" Board, is a good idea. I have not had a chance to read your letter carefully, having just glanced through it, but will take the matter up aggressively as possible when I get back.
In the meantime, with best wishes, believe me,
Yours very sincerely,
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