Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Governor's Office
HARRISBURG

THE GOVERNOR

Milford, Pa.,

June 26, 1933.

Mr. Hermann Hagedorn,
Care of American Express Company,
6 Haymarket,
London, S. W. 1, England.

Dear Hermann:

I am immensely interested in your daughter's
desire to study forestry, although I have always had
a good deal of doubt whether women could find a satis-
factory field, except in nursery practice. Work in
the woods is another matter. I should think also it
is likely to be very difficult for your daughter to
find work after she has had training.

As to the training itself, the best school,
in my opinion, in America is the Yale School. The
course is four years for holders of a bachelor's
degree. But there are a good many other schools
which do not require that degree before entering.

I am far from intending to discourage your
daughter, with whose ambition I sympathize deeply,
but I think it is only fair to tell her, through you,
of the difficulties with which she is likely to meet.

It is true, of course, that many women are
going into gardening and making a success of it. That
is a different matter from forestry.

It may also well be that my experience in
forestry having been more or less on the frontier, I
am not giving due weight to modern conditions.

Let's get together when you come home and
talk things over. I am very hopeful as to the general
situation since Franklin has been doing such a dandy
job, but of course I realize that his success is still

CORNELIA BRYCE PINCHOT

1615 RHODE ISLAND AVENUE, N. W.
WASHINGTON, D. C.

November 18, 1946

Mr. Hermann Hagedorn
Roosevelt Memorial Association
28 East 20th Street
New York, New York

Dear Mr. Hagedorn:

I cannot tell you how much moved I was by your
fine telegram of sympathy and appreciation. I like very
much what you say about Gifford and the public service
he rendered.

I wonder whether you know how much he enjoyed his
association with you. It meant a great deal to him.

Please don't think that the long delay was due to any
lack of appreciation on my part. Rather the reverse--I
have cared so much that I wanted to answer each message
personally.

I'd like to see Mr. Gifford.