Letters, 1921 June 4-1931 Sept. 17, to Perry Walton, Boston.

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Letters, 1921 June 4-1931 Sept. 17, to Perry Walton, Boston.

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Three letters: 1921 June 4, thanking Walton for his support as subscriber to The Nation; 1927 Sept. 4, grateful for Walton's praise of his article on the Sacco-Vanzetti case, "the horror and wickedness of that execution still haunts me..," and blaming "the grandsons of the broadcloth Harvard mob" for it; 1931 Sept. 17, recalling how he met President Wilson in Pennsylvania Station just before publication of his position on the sinking of the Lusitania, and Wilson telling him " ... this country will never go into that war while I am President."

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Boston Athenaeum

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