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. He spoke of your letters to him and to me as being classics, and said they were the best letters, as far as he knew, that any one had ever written.
Of course you know how heartily I concur in this. He said that sometime they should be published. The President is now crystallizing his mind in regard to the Federal Reserve Board, and if you are not to remain in London, then he would probably put Houston on the Board and ask you to take the Secretaryship of Agriculture. You have no idea the feeling that is being aroused by the tolls question.
The Hearst papers are screaming at all of us every day. They have at last honoured me with their abuse.