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654 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK
October 2, 1930.
My dear Mr. Buchan:
I am sending you a clipping from the New York Times of September 30th, giving an editorial concerning the Pilgrim Trust. I feel sure you will agree with me that it is all we could wish for.
I am sorry that you are not receiving the credit you so richly deserve, for putting my ideas into such charming language which, you perceive, excites the admiration of the editor.
I also enclose copy of another editorial which appeared in the New York Evening Post of September 30th.
"A Noble Gift
"To give munificently is an American characteristic. Surely, though, few great gifts have been conceived with so generous a fancy as the $10,000,000 Pilgrim Trust Fund established by Mr. Edward S. Harkness for charitable work among the people of England. The motive for the gift is of such nobility and such humanness as to delight the soul. As an American of English stock Mr. Harkness wishes to help the country which "in the war spent her resources freely in the common cause, and, in the years that have elapsed since peace was declared, has maintained honorably and without complaint the burden which has
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"greatly increased the difficulties of her people." Never was praise more fairly deserved. The fortitude of Britain in the heartbreaking years since the war has been a moral encouragement for all mankind. We are glad to have an American say it. Mr. Harkness's words and gift speak for hundreds of thousands of his fellow citizens."
It, naturally, is most gratifying to me to have the announcement received so favorably on this side.
With kind regards,
Sincerely yours, Edward S Harkness
Hon. John Buchan, M.P. Elsfield Manor, Oxford, England.
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