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Letter from Gerard Collier to May Wright Sewall.

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Feb. 10, 1904

Dear Mrs Sewall

You will remember that it was me to whom you were so kind some time in November last at Indianapolis.

America to me lies east and south of New England, that is to say of New York and Boston; I feel that I could bear to go to one of the western American universities, but

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that I could hardly endure Harvard or Yale. I feel that the true heart of America lies in the great West, or rather almost anywhere out of New York and Boston. Am I right at all, or is it merely ignorance or prejudice?

I emerged onto the Atlantic coast full of enthusiasm especially educational which there rather drooped under much cold crticism.

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Do you dislike or despise the Canadians, I was quite shocked to be told that the NewEnglanders generally do?

Do you really think that the Declaration of Independence was wise?

You see my point of view not much altered on the Atlantic coast.

Just now the newspapers are intensely interesting to me - there is the war, perhaps I told you that I was in

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Japan last year before coming to America - the best chances for peace seem to me that Russia's fleet out there should be put out of action, for then Japan will have to operate on the main land which I doubt if they can do with much effect as I do not believe they have any cavalry worth speaking of; so the position will be Japan supreme at sea & Russia invulnerable (with present Japanese resources) inland, whence a deadlock & possibly peace.

Then there is our fiscal policy; I want the British Empire to be free trade absolutely, for which a great victory for free trade in England would be a good

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beginning. I am not very good at economics, and am not entirely a free trader, seeing that it may be necessary for the economically weaker nations to protect themselves as best they may against the severities of free comptition.

But I feel rather that free trade is of the breath of life of England, & with our colonies we should be strong enough for it.

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