Snake Rock Farm
Sandy Hook, Connecticut

Sept. 16. 1928

My dear Mrs. Sloane

Please accept a word of Sympathy
from one whose privilege it was to
be a lifelong friend of your husband
and associated with him in many of
his activities.

We were not actually contemporaries
At Berlin; but he had left pleasant
memories behind him. Among all with
whom he had studied and in all the
homes at which he had been a guest;
and I heard much which made me
hope to know him. That hope was realized
soon after my return.

We were first associated at the
time of foundation of the American
Historical Association, and afterwards
at the foundation of the Institute of
Arts and Letters, and the American
Academy. Of how much we all owed
to his wise counsel and ------tting
work. I do not need to speak. Even
--- I had all this, there stands out in
my memory his quick sympathy
and great personal charm. What he
was himself meant even more than

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what he did.

We came very close C------ during
the first years of the War, when public
opinion so unjustly stigmatized him
as pro-German when he simply looked at
the situation from both sides ---land of
me. I felt almost exactly as he did
and had ------ talks with him
about the situation. Which brought out

more closely than ever the largeness of
his mind.

I wish you could have seen how much
personal feeling about him was shown
in our Academy meetings during his last

illness. I doubt whether there was any
man in the whole body who could have
called out the warm hearted
that he did, from so many dis

Please ----- our ever faithfully
Yours,

Arthur Twining Hadley

Mrs. William Milligan Sloane

About Arthur Twining Hadley:

http://www-picturehistory.com/find/p/20692/mcms.html

Arthur Twining Hadley was an economist and university president. In 1891 he became a full-time professor at Yale. A founding editor of the "Yale Review," Hadley taught there for fifteen years. His textbook on economics was prophetic of the twentieth century. Hadley became president of Yale in 1899, the first layman to do so, and continued for twenty-two years.

About William Milligan Sloane (Father of United States Olympic Committee):

http://www.virtualology.com/apjamesrenwickwilsonsloane/

William Milligan (Sloane), educator, born in Richmond, Ohio, 12 November, 1850, was graduated at Columbia in 1868. He was instructor in classics in Newell institute, Pittsburg, in 1868-'72, studied in Berlin and Leipsic in 1872-'6, and in 1873-'5, in addition, was also private secretary of George Bancroft, then minister at Berlin, and worked under his direction on the tenth volume of the "History of the United States." From 1877 till 1883 he was assistant and professor of Latin in Princeton, and he has since been professor of history in that institution. In June, 1888, he declined the professorship of Latin to which he was invited by Columbia college. He has been since 1885 editor of the "New Princeton Review." He edited his father's "Life and Work" (New York, 1888).

http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/Olympika/Olympika_1993/olympika0201h.pdf