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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