November 2, 1928.

Charles A. Beard, Esq.,
New Milford,
Conn.

Dear Mr. Beard,

I am delighted that you can let me see the chapter on the agrarian revolution in Europe by January first. It should be a fine thing for The Yale Review. Even better as you have described it sounds that article on "The Intellectual Climate." Will you try algo to let me read that about January fifteenth? I see no reason why both articles should not go into The Yale Review. At the moment I have a good many commitments already made for the March issue, but I am still looking for a leader for it. From what you have told me of "The Intellectual Climate" article, I suspect that it will have the stuff of a leader in it, and it is with this probability in mind especially that I am hoping to have a look at it in the middle of January.

I don't know whether you have happened to see a copy of our last number. Although it was six weeks old, I sent you a copy a day or two ago, thinking that one contribution to it at least--an editorial announcement which appears on the last page--might still come to you as a piece of news and so might interest you particularly.

C. Your most sincerely,

October 5, 1928.

Dear Mr. Beard:

Now that you are at home again,
I hope you may be willing to write another
article for The Yale Review. What subjects
are uppermost in your mind? Is there any
public question of immediate interest upon
which you might write an article in the course
of a month? I could offer you an honorarium
of one hundred and fifty dollars for a manu-
script running to our usual length--about
five thousand words--on some subject that
might fit in with the program of The Yale
Review, which we are now planning for the
year. If there is something which you could
write very soon, I wish that you would
send me a wire telling me what it would be.
In any case, I shall be glad to have a letter
from you again.

Yours most sincerely,

G*

3

February 9, 1927.

Charles A. Beard, Esq.,
27 West 67th Street,
New York City.

Dear Mr. Beard:

There is an article for The Yale Review, and a fine one, in your paper. I think it would be a fairly simple matter to adjust what you read before the Snag Club to a general audience such as the subscribers to The Yale Review. You would need a little different introduction, of course, and perhaps a somewhat modified ending, with an occasional alteration here and there in the middle pages. As you will see in the copy of The Yale Review which I am sending you, we like to print our articles, which are never very long, straight through from beginning to end without break or numbered divisions.

Will you not when you can find leisure to do so think over your address with these suggestions in mind and then let us have the completed article as soon as possible? I am putting it down upon our list of good things to come in the magazine. Is it necessary for me to return the copy which you sent me, or have you another at hand which you could use for the revision?

Yours most sincerely

G.

New Milford, Conn., May 31, 1927

Dear Mr. Cross,

I should feel rather guilty about the Ms. if I had inflicted it upon you in the first place, for as I have said it was prepared for a little group of friends and I was never very proud of it. However if you want to print it, I shall be glad to work it over as you suggest. On the other hand if you really think that it would be just as well to bury it, I for one shall applaud your decision. As I have no copy here I must ask you to return the draft in case you want me to work it over.

New Milford, Conn., June 16, 1927

Dear Mr. Cross,

Here is the Ms. again. Your suggestion as to points of form, I have
easily followed, I hope, to your satisfaction.

With respect to aesthetics, I have expanded that part a bit, but since
the burden of the argument is "economic" I have felt it undesirable to
go too far afield on that tack. I have also thrown in a few hints
referring to the achievements of individuals and corporation. But here again I have restrained myself, because my major concern was with
economics of harmonious city planning.

If only reviewing the doctored Ms., you really decide that it does not
come up to your standards or meet the requirements of the Review, please
feel perfectly free to send it back. I confess that I am a bit weary in
the flesh from four slavish years on our book on American Civilization
and am not in a mood to work very hard on anything just now. The
consignment of this Ms. to the waste basket would wound no pride of authorship
but would merely convince me that I have missed fire.

New Milford, Conn., Oct. 7. [1928]

Dear Mr. Cross,

Thanks for your kind letter and invitation to take a hand
in your enterprise. Just at present I am working with Mr. Robinson
on a revision of our Development of Modern Europe, now twenty-two
years out of date. I have brought home a cart load of new stuff
from Europe and am trying to take my bearings here in the Connecticut
hills, with Candlewood Mountain looking serenely and amusedly on
from the West! Among the things I am working up are:

The Intellectual Climate of the Nineteenth Century.

The Agrarian Revolution in Europe (with an eye to present situation).*

Labor and Socialism.

German Speculation respecting the Future of Capitalism.

Do you see anything there worthy of your pages? If so,
I can shape it up for you, on the understanding that I may use the
stuff in revamped form for our Development.

I am going out to Cincinnati next week to attend the meeting
of the National Municipal League and shall not be back until about
the 19th. I have nothing ready just this moment.

*A big topic which our city-minded historians seldom see.

New Milford, Conn., Oct. 24

Dear Mr. Cross,

I have been away in the West and am just catching up with things. Yes, I can let you have this a look at the chapter on the agrarian revolution in Europe by January 1. The intellectual climate article is really an introduction to thinking about the twentieth century-- and I plan to have it done by January 15. As soon as I see the end I shall let you know.

Apologies for this delay.

New Milford, Conn., Aug. 2.

Dear Governor Cross,

Having shed many tears over this article and rewritten it again and
again, I release it to you as promised. All I can say for it is that it
is the fruit of long study of Jefferson's papers, especially the unpublished
materials in the Library of Congress. But materials do not tell one what to say
about them. That is an intellectual and moral responsibility. I have assumed it.
Of the result you are the judge. It represents my best, and if it suits you not,
pray return it.

New Milford, Conn., November 27, 1931.

Dear Governor Cross,

Your kind letter, which does me much honor,
reached me just on the eve of my departure for New York en
route to California. Just at the moment I am rushed getting
up some lectures for Millikan's Institute of Technology and
cannot spare the time to do an article for you. I am sorry
about this because I am delighted with your coming-of-age
number and the fine way you face the future. Cabot's
article was powerful thrust and I had the pleasure of
advertising it at Dartmouth last week and then, strange
to relate, I ran into him in the College Inn.

This I can say however: if I find it possible to
strike any fire I shall bear you in mind and let you have
the product. At the moment I do not see how I can finish off
anything by February 1st. By the next issue I should have
something ready.

When we return from California in the Spring, I
should be delighted to see you at New Milford if you are ever
out motoring to inspect your domain. I am a taxpayer and vassal
in two manors: New Mlford and Kent.

New Milford, Conn., April 20, 1932.

Dear Governor Cross,

Your vassal of Kent and New Milford is now back from
California and once more within your high jurisdiction. In accordance with
your commands, he has written the document for your esteemed publication
and herewith submits it for your consideration. If it does not meet your
imperial and royal pleasure, it can be returned or dropped into your
waste-basket.

Should your iter lead you here, pray do me the honor of
stopping a moment.

New Milford, Conn., May 4, 1932.

Dear Miss McAfee,

Thanks for your kind letter. I am glad to learn that
my overlord finds the article worth the candle. Of course, it will
be entirely satisfactory to me if you use the article in its present
form and pay me $100 for it. Considering the price of milk at my manor
in Kent, this is generous and will enable me to make a considerable
improvement on the aforesaid demesne in the way of cutting brush.
On the other hand if you want it enlarged for later publication, I shall
be happy to be at your service.

New Milford, Conn., August 8, 1932.

Dear Miss McAfee,

Here is the proof. Your suggested are all pointed and I have
accepted them. You have an eagle's eye for literary and intellectual follies.

The Governor's comment, of course, pleaseth me much. To have the approval
of one's political sovereign and literary commander at one and the same time
is more than an ordinary mortal has a right to expect.

Yr Obdt. servaunt,

Of the barony of Kent.

New Milford, Conn., Nov. 21, 1933.

Dear Governor Cross,

Since I have given you some respite in the milk business,
you will have time, and be delighted, I am sure, to read the enclosed
Ms. on Germany and the Kaiser, which is offered to the Yale Review by
my son-in-law, Dr. Alfred Vagts. Dr. Vagts was born and reared in Germany.
He was a soldier and officer in the German army during the four years of the
World War, and decorated for valor at the front. After the War he
was a student at Yale for a year. He later became associated with the
Institute for Foreign Affairs in Hamburg and set to work on a study of
German-American relations. This study he has prosecuted for about five years
in the archives of the German Foreign Office and of the State Department in
Washington, and he has about finished a monumental work on the subject.
The enclosed study of Hitlerism and Kaiserism is based in large part upon
the unpublished materials and is therefore a fundamental document, not a
piece of passing journalism. At present Dr. Vagts is a voluntary exile in
the Connecticut Hills and enjoys your benign government, finding some peace of
mind after the turmoil and uproar of Germany.

In case you are unable to make use of the Ms., please be good enough
to send it back. Stamps enclosed.

Seneschal of South Kent and Sherman.