Letter from Frederic Hastings Smyth to Herbert Cahoon, Sweet Briar, Virginia, 1942 July 10 : autograph manuscript signed.

Expressing relief that Cahoon was not inconvenienced by Smyth missing their meeting at Penn Station on the previous Sunday; hoping Cahoon will be able to interest "Mr. Barlow" in their work; informing that their work can continue for another year and that he will not seek a secular job, though he will "be on the look-out for a suitable parish"; deciding "not to take up the Russian War Relief matter"; describing travel plans; informing that the conference is showing "certain hopeful features" and is better when compared to the "assinine [sic]" opening address; still lamenting the "middle class" nature of the conference; describing a "seminar, composed entirely of Virginians" regarding blood bank segregation and explaining that "spreading the truth ... can have an effect" and that "Christianity seems to have shown these people that it is wrong (in theory) to cling to race prejudice"; informing that "Alex Woollcott [Alexander Woollcott, 1887-1943, American drama critic and radio personality] (who has been in a Boston Hospital for three weeks) adds to your story that Manning [William T. Manning, 1866-1949, Episcopal Bishop of New York City] has had his Bishopric in his hand for such a long time that it has made him stupid & neurotic!"; expressing belief that they are "on the right track" and that people are responding to their message.