Letter from Charles S. Carstairs to Henry Clay Frick, 21 October 1913

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OFFICE OF H. C. FRICK RECEIVED NOV 3 1913 FORWARDED REFERRED ANSWERED F[ile]

M. KNOEDLER & CO. 556-558, FIFTH AVENUE NEW-YORK 15, OLD BOND ST, LONDON 17, PLACE VENDOME, PARIS TELEPHONE CENTRAL 30-64 CABLE ADDRESSES: KNOEDLER, NEW-YORK KNOEDLER, LONDON KNOEDLER, PARIS

PARIS, October 21, 1913. 191

Mr. H. C. Frick 640, Fifth Avenue, NEW YORK.

Dear Mr. Frick, I trust you had a pleasant journey home and have enjoyed golf at Myopia since your return. I see by the paper that Childs was duly married, and no doubt you are happy at having added a sweet daughter-in-law to your family.

I took my trip to Italy in the motor with the children. We were gone about three and a half weeks and had a very enjoyable and instructive time. I often wished that you might have been with me when contemplating some of the great masterpieces only to be found in Italy. We went to every place by motor, and as the roads were good and the distances not long, it was most enjoyable. We must really go together some time.

You were kind enough when here to say that you would be pleased to do anything in your power to help my son Haseltine in his efforts to be appointed to the Diplomatic Service. He went home the end of August and has taken a couple of rooms at Washington, The Albany, 1703 H. Street, N. W. The conditions are as follows: There are five or six vacancies and about eighty applicants, out of which, I understand, fifty have been designated for the examinations, he being one of the fifty. These examinations take place November 17th and, I understand,

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