December 14, 1937.
 
 
 
My dear Dodd:
 
 
 Thank you for your note of November twenty-third.  I hope much to be able to go to the University of North Carolina and will do so if it is at all possible when the time comes.
 
 
 Yours of the twenty-ninth has just come and I don't need to tell you that I have fully understood your house rent problems, but as you also know things came to a head because of the German foreign office.
 
 
 When you get back, of course, I will explain to you more fully.  You are right about Shotwell and I hope much of that I can send him in Europe where he will be definitely useful.
 
 
Very sincerely yours,
 
 
 
 
Honorable William E. Dodd,
Ambassador to Germany, 
American Embassy,
Berlin, Germany.
 
 
FDR/dj