THE EMPORIA GAOETTE
 
      W. A. WHITE EDITOR AND OWNER
 
      K. W. DAVIDSON, BUSINESS MANAGER
 
      EMPORIA KANSAS
 
      
 
 
My dear Mr. President:
 
      June 8, 1939
 
      
 
 
What you need just now is a little poetry. You are going too 
      hard and too seriously. So I am sending you a book of verse written 
      by a Kansan, Eugene F. Ware, former Commissioner of Pensions 
      under Theodore Roosevelt. T. R. greatly admired Eugene Ware and 
      used to quote these verses on many occasions in private conversation.
 
      
 
 
Putnam's are bringing out a new edition and I have written 
      a little introduction for this new edition. I have marked in 
      the Table of Contents some of the verses that I think you might 
      read happily. They are gay, satirical, sometimes a bit tragic 
      but always most humorous and frequently full of the robust humor 
      that men had in the seventies, eighties, nineties, of the old 
      century. It was not Elizabethan but it had the same gusto.
 
      
 
 
Before closing will you permit one who differed with you about 
      the court plan and who bats his eyes and swallows and gasps a 
      bit as our debts mount to say that I think you did one swell 
      job entertaining the King and Queen from England. No other President 
      in my memory, excepting Theodore Roosevelt possibly Benjamin 
      Harrison, could have given such social distinction as you gave 
      to the occasion of this week. I'll bet you sent George VI home 
      wondering what George III was thinking about to overlook this 
      American bet. With warm personal regards,
 
      
 
 
I am
 
      Always most cordially yours,
 
      W. A. White
 
      President Franklin D. Roosevelt
 
      White House, Washington, D.C