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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,
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