[Headlines from The New York Times (page 1, above the fold) to place the letters in context of the world around them.]
1/9/09
HOUSE RETURNS ROOSEVELT BLOW
Votes 212 to 35 to Reject Messages on Secret Service After Long Talk. SENATE FOR STEEL INQUIRY Instructs Committee to Determine If President Acted Legally on Tennessee Deal. PRESIDENT MAY HIT BACK Gives Out the Blast Against Senator Tillman and Has Facts Against Others in Reserve.
HAMMERSTEIN NEAR NERVOUS COLLAPSE
Has Too Many Troubles of His Own to Help His Rival, the Metropolitan. HIS AID INFORMALLY ASKED His Friends Still Hopeful of a Favorable Outcome of the Philadelphia Tangle — Mayor Talks Encouragingly. HAMMERSTEIN NEAR NERVOUS COLLAPSE
January 9th, 1909
Mrs. J. A. Briggs
Earlville N. Y.
Dear Mrs. Briggs:,
I have just received your note of the 7th from Binghamton and I want to say to you, to use the language of the prize ring that, that we, Mr. Briggs’ “backers” cannot express too strongly our feeling about the way you, his “handler” are supporting him. If anything on earth could put him in condition and keep him keyed up to battle pitch, you surely could do it. I almost regret that you are not “running with the ball "-- you'd make a touchdown sure. Nevertheless perhaps it is a consolation to know that they also serve who only stand and wait, and their service is sometimes of a higher quality.
Yours sincerely,
C. Miller
Sec'y
The Osborne Company
[letter with date torn from top]
Dear Mr. Briggs:-
I've just read your letter about the Robertson order of Binghamton. That's alright and you are to be congratulated for having the confidence of your customer so that they will let you do it do that, and we've just got that splendid order of Bayliss of Binghamton, too. Isn't it a pity that you couldn't have held them down to a single subject in each place. It's such a magnificent order that it is a pity to spoil it by the mix-up. However, you know your territory and you know what you ought to do and it is probably alright. I do wish that “On the Lookout” could have been held out of an order of the Mutual Fire. But what a leap that gives you towards your fifth week! Things are coming and they can't stop you,
Yours sincerely,
C. Miller
Sec'y
The Osborme Company
Editor's notes
These letters, as well as the correspondence I'll post next time, were all stuffed into an envelope
postmarked December 29, 1908.
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