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faithful & generous protection
without regard to the
humble [?] of their
condition as I am sure
you appreciated quite as
deeply as anyone.

I am just reading
John Morley's remarkable
life of Voltaire and am
struck by a sentence
of his concerning Frederick
the Great, as follows, "Above
all he never forgot the truth
which every statesman ought
to have burning in letters
of fire before his eyes; I am
the procurator of the poor."

[cross writing]

I would substitute for "the poor"
"the humble & the helpless."
So I venture to hope that the hand
of us all will be the protector
of the least among us & take a
larger higher & humane [veiro?]
than some who are his lieutenants.
You willl not recall me though I
have met you many times, long ago
in Madison Wis. at North East Harb-
or St. Louis, at Washington. I am
Dean of the [?] School George Washington
University Wash. [?] here at my summer
Cottages. I write only as a citizen
who wishes well to all his follow
citizens & to your administration.

Very respectfully,
Chas. Noble Gregory

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