CORM a711

October 16, 1945

Dear Uanr

I carmot tell you with &ut sheer cielia;ht I reold your

recolluatiow oi' the group 02 giants who establiaheu The HockefeUer

Foundation.

As 8 &ece of character portruyd, I have never Been

better, apd how YOU did it ?l'ithout 8cceds

records iS

beyond my iieagination.

don't tabk anyone ha bit off: aay better Yr. Gateo, ilr. Hockefeller

and George Vincent.

be some emsin it, but I cane acroii only very ainor OD@& t&t
do not in uy my ~X'ect the ralidty of-the study) Le., you spoke

of Dr. Buttrick as being a conductor on a rciilroaci in hia early

yeam; he wlyls 6 brakemrm.

can easily be corrected.

The yortralts we bri1liixat;ly cut, ~LZIQ I

You were upptrrently concerned that there adght

That kind of thing is not iapxtsmt tIlpd

     The stufr' is 80 good that I didn't want te utrlryl showlng

it to some of the people arounoi here, ULU 13ST and Dr. Yori8on have

already retad it witn greirt enthusiom.

it now, and Joe WilUkr wturtti to reat it.

too, would greatly appreciate it, tmct your picture of him is the

first one %hut 1 hvve seen that does Jutstice to hi3 distbgashed

contributiona to this organimtion.

larren Weaver ia read-

I, ~11; awe Ut Debevoirre,

I have a feeling that your portrait could be rounded QU%

porhaps by at least a rei'erence to the other side of the ehfeld.

The men you were describing mre intg33ectuciL giants - each in Ne