Mar. 6, 1903.
Dic. T. L. W.
To the President,
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt,
Washington, D.C.
My Dear Mr. President:-
Since you told me last Sunday night that you were surely going to spend Labor Day, September the 7th, in Syracuse attending the State Fair, it has occured to me that it might be agreeable to you to visit my camp in the Adirondacks from some time during the previous week until the morning of the day you are to be in Syracuse. We could reach Syracuse at noon by leaving my camp about eight in the morning, it being not over a four hours run. The hunting season opens on September 1st, and if you can go up there with me so as to devote a few days to stalking deer, I will guarantee you the law's limit of two big bucks, - we do have bears, but they are as seldom seen as they seem to be in Mississippi. We can get some good fishing at that time too. You will not be annoyed by newspaper men or anyone else, for it is utterly impossible for them to reach my place, which can only be reached from one direction and then by private wagon roads which are guarded by my two neighbors J. Pierpont Morgan and Alfred G. Vanderbilt, whose properties adjoin mine, and protect me from all intrusion.
Cannot we hope to have the pleasure also of Mrs. Roosevelt's Company, and that of any of the rest of the family whom you would like to have accompany you? We have ample accommodation for secretaries and everybody else that you may desire to have with you.
I have two separate telephone wires connecting with different points in the outside world, which can be used for long distance messages, and for the transmission of all telegraph communications received at the railroad terminus. I am sure I can give you as good a rest and as good a time as you could possibly want, and can so arrange matters as to have this visit fit in perfectly with the one to Syracuse.
Hoping for a favorable reply and that you are in as good health and spirits as you were last Sunday evening, when Mrs. Woodruff and I had a most delightful visit with you, I beg to remain,
Yours faithfully and very respectfully,
M S