COMMENT AND REVIEW
My dear Governor Pennypacker:
I am sure I owe to your kindness the invitation to your great ceremonial of the 4th of October.
I regret extremely that I cannot be present. I would like to congratulate you personally on the completion of so grand a monument of your admirable administration.
With great respect, I have the honor to be
- Your obedient servant,
- Edward E. Hale.
- Your obedient servant,
(Chaplain U. S. Senate.)
My dear Governor:
I cannot express in language too strong the very great satisfaction with which I have seen the appointment you have made.
The bar, as I do, will thank you in their hearts if not by their words.
Mr. Ferguson, in a few months, with a little public service, will make a very good judge — honest, intelligent and capable.
- I am.
- Most sincerely yours,
- I am.
My dear Governor:
Your Thanksgiving Proclamation presents such a gratifying contrast to the usual proclamation by governors of other states that I cannot refrain from congratulating you on the thoroughly appropriate and felicitious language in which yours is constructed. It is in itself a strong appeal to the grateful spirit and is brimful of scriptural adaptations.
I hope you and yours are all well, and with great respect, beg to remain, my dear Governor,
- Very sincerely yours,
- Ethelbert Talbot.
- Very sincerely yours,
Dear Governor Pennypacker:
I think you will be interested in the very vigorous presentation of another vigorous executive which I send herewith.
Mr. Roosevelt has rather jealously guarded these photo-