shorten the temporary eclipse by acting upon a suggestion which, I have no doubt, you will pardon your old friend for making. It is that you should at once write a letter to Mr. Low to tell him that you know his and your aims as to what the city government should be and do, to be the same, and that if in the course of his administration he should wish your aid and assistance, you would be most happy to render, in your capacity of a private citizen, whatever service you might be given an opportunity for. Such a declaration, put forth in your strongest and most cordial tones, would, I am sure, go very far to restore your proper relations with those of your friends who may have become somewhat estranged from you.
But my suggestion may be quite superfluous, as in the supposed case you would probably have done of your own motion the thing suggested.
In any event, believe me as ever faithfully your old friend.[1]
TO WILLIAM VOCKE
I regret I cannot be present at the meeting[2] to which you invite me and must ask you to be content with a few
- ↑
Their cordial relations increased rather than decreased, as is shown by
the following letter:
44 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn, March 16, 1904.
Dear Mr. Schurz: If I am belated, I am none the less earnest, in sending you my admiring and affectionate greetings for your birthday. You ought to have a vast fund of happiness in the knowledge of all you have done, and are doing, and are yet to do, in making better and nobler, and more prosperous too, the lives of your fellow-men.
You are, I hear, off for an outing. Do not, I beg, reduce its helpfulness by answering this note, for I know already what you would write, but believe me always and
Most faithfully yours,
Edward M. Shepard. - ↑ A pro-Boer mass-meeting in Chicago, Dec. 8, 1901.
