The Writings of Carl Schurz/From Horace White, August 10th, 1904

by Carl Schurz and others

 

FROM HORACE WHITE

Whiteface, Essex Co., N. Y., Aug. 10, 1904. 

My dear Schurz: It is true that I have reached my seventieth birthday. It is true, too, as Bismarck said to you, that the first seventy years of a man's life are the best. But best of all is it to receive on one's seventieth anniversary a letter like yours.

Among the many kind greetings that have been sent to me yours is the one which comes nearest to my heart. It is also the one which my family most highly prize. I thank you for it, and I give you in return the full measure of affection which revolving years have ever strengthened and consecrated between us.

Yours fraternally,

Horace White.