Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : London, to an unidentified recipient, 1915 August 21.

BIB_ID
413376
Accession number
MA 13978
Creator
Davray, Henry-D., 1873-1944.
Display Date
1915 August 21.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 25.6 x 20.4 cm
Notes
Opening address to "Mon cher vieux soutien de la liberté."
Written on letterhead stationery printed "4, Adam Street, / Adelphi, W.C."
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Lamenting the loss of freedom he and others are experiencing during World War I (Davray is in London, where he has been sent by the French government) and complaining that an article he wrote stating that British soldiers have replaced French ones in northern France was censored; stating that he is glad that his wife has come to join him in London and that the defeat of the Muscovites and the Petrogradists does not disturb him; expressing his admiration for the British army and recounting how Kitchener took him to review his troops about to depart for France; asking the recipient to tell him the whereabouts of the Belgian sculptor Victor Rousseau, (ironically) sending his regards to (Woodrow) Wilson, and noting that he has seen Americans in London in whom Wilson inspires inexplicable disgust.