SINCLAIR LEWIS
300 CENTRAL PARK WEST
NEW YORK CITY

October 25, 1944

Mr. George Leonard,
Andrus Building,
Minneapolis.

Dear Sir:

I am a friend and an energetic admirer of Governor Thye and many other supporters of Dewey in Minnesota, I believe that President Roosevelt and his lieutenants represent far better than Mr. Dewey and his group all that is best in the political ideals of Harold Stassen, Wendell Willkie -- and the more thoughtful of those Plain People of Minnesota to whom you and I belong.

I believe, too, that in a few years, they will remember that Winston Churchill was once cursed in Great Britain for having shifted from the Tories to the Liberals and back again, and that then they will regret their present rage or sorrow over Senator Joseph Ball, will rejoice in his present courageous support of Roosevelt, and see Joe Ball as the great man he really is.

I regret that my ballot will have to be cast in New York City and not in Minneapolis or Duluth or St. Paul, but it will be for Roosevelt.