PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 
 
      IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
 
      OFFICE OF THE PRESIDING BISHOP 
 
      281 FOURTH AVENUE
 
      NEW YORK, N.Y.
 
      THE RT. REV. HENRY ST. GEORGE TUCKER, D. D.
 
      
 
 
April l7, 1939
 
      The President of the United States
 
      Washington, D. C.
 
      Dear Mr. President:
 
      
 
 
Immediately after receiving your kind invitation to take part 
      in the service at Hyde Park on June eleventh, I called up the 
      Sewanee authorities and secured from them a release from my engagement 
      there. It gives me, therefore, great pleasure to accept the invitation 
      which you have so graciously extended to me as Presiding Bishop 
      of our Church.
 
      I did not understand whether I was to preach on that occasion 
      or not, but I should be very glad to do so if that is your intention.
 
      Assuring you of my appreciation of your invitation and of the 
      pleasure which it will give me to take part in the service, I 
      am,
 
      Yours faithfully,
 
      Presiding Bishop