ADDRESS OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS TO
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON, D. C.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON

August 29, 1918.

Henry S. Canby, Esquire,
Woodbridge Farms,
Colchester, Connecticut.

Sir:

The Department acknowledges the receipt of
your letter of August 17th enclosing a letter from
the League of Free Nations Association and a letter
from Sir Horace Plunkett relative to the Irish
question.

I am, Sir,

Your obedient servant,

For the Secretary of State:

Second Assistant Secretary.

NE

763.72/31

UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION

WASHINGTON, D. C.

October 17, 1918.

IN YOUR REPLY REFER TO

Mr Henry Seidel Canby
Asst Editor, Yale Review
Yale Station
New Haven Conn

Dear Mr Canby:

The James Byrne is the one you mention. I do not know whether I mentioned J S Cullinan of Houston Texas and Col- onel Ahern of the General Staff.

I feel that the situation is growing more critical. If there is an armistice this question will be interjected into it by the British Labor people.

I do not know whether I could be in New York, Novem- ber 2d, or not. It is proposed now to send me back again to Eu rope on some other matters. I cannot tell how soon this will be. If I am in the country I shall try to be in New York but as I am quitting the Food Administration to go into other work I find my- self practically bankrupt and it is very hard for me even to spend a few dollars on a short trip like that. I am willing to spend any amount and do anything for my country if I am sure that a con- ference of this kind will be of affect and I am willing to coop- erate in every way in helping the situation across the water.

I think your ideas upon the subject are excellent and hope you will keep at it.

Very truly yours,

AP.

University of Otago

DUNEDIN, N. 1

N.Z.

18th. June, 1945.

Dr. H.S. Canby,
C/o. American Legation,
P.O. Box 1301,
WELLINGTON.

Dear Dr. Canby,

At a meeting of the Professorial Board of the Uni-
versity of Otago held on the 15th. instant reference was made
to the lecture that you delivered in this University on Wednesday,
June 14, on "The Importance of a National Culture".

All members who were privileged to be present express-
ed the view that the lecture had been full of interest and had
furnished a literary stimulus to the large audience which as you
know consisted of members of the staff, students of the Uni-
versity and members of the general public. We are really very
grateful to you for visiting us and are sorry that you were un-
able to stay longer.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
PHILADELPHIA

WHARTON SCHOOL OF
FINANCE AND COMMERCE

Swarthmore, Pa.,
April 14, 1917.

H. S. Canby,
Yale University,
New Haven, Conn.

Esteemed Friend:

It is perhaps insolent to call the attention of
a grown man to the humiliations of youth, but I cannot refrain
from reviving in your memory perhaps, certain reminiscences that I
just got from mutual friends: namely, Emma Hayes, who used to teach
you, and the wife of Professor Frank Fetter, who I understand on
one occasion thought it necessary to shake you. Perhaps it is due
to these wholesome influences that you have been able to develop
such remarkable sanity as I find in your letter of April 12th in
the Nation. I have read it with great interest. I wish to con-
gratulate you upon it and thank you for it. I am trying to get some
of it into the Hicksite Friends' Intelligencer which has at times
been somewhat sentimental and not unlike your Revolutionary grand-
father who refused to look at the facts.

Very truly yours,

THE MIRIAM LVTCHER STARK LIBRARY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS

June 16, 1938.

Mr. Henry S. Canby,
Clinton, R. F. D.
Connecticut.

Dear Mr. Canby,

You will recall, perhaps, my promise to write you of an Thoreau
manuscript that I might find in the Stark Collection.

My faint memory proved correct. In volume I of a set of Thoreau:

The writing of Henry David Thoreau
Houghton Mifflin & Co.,
MS. Ed. Set No. 487,

I find inserted two leaves, 8 inches x 9½ inches covered on both sides
with Thoreau's writing. The four pages begin as follows:

Leaf I, p.1.

Where there is not discernment, the behaviour even of
the purest soul ...

p.2.

... Yearn toward the valley but my imagination will not permit me to jump ...

Leaf II, p.1.

... sea grass as in the summer. The sky is a deep ocean
of liquid light,

p.2.

... "The least tincture of a blush or sanguine complexion,"
but we are intellectually and morally albinoes.

It is quite likely that other bits of Thoreau manuscript may ap-
pear as we continue our listing. I shall send you notices of all that
we find.