Theodore Debs letter to Frank P. O'Hare - May 18, 1922
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Terre Haute, [Indiana], May 18th, 1922. Dear Frank : We dropped a line to Mary D. Brite a few days ago and it has come back to us undelivered. Please find it enclosed. Will you not kindly forward it so it will reach her. Your letter to Gene of the 16th. with enclosure of report of Crusade under date of the 13th. has just been received. Please let me thank you for Gene and for us all for remembering us so kindly in this and other ways. Your report makes a splendid showing. We shall examine it more in detail when we are a little less busy. The 50 copies of the current R.S. have also been received and your thoughtfulness in sending them is fully appreciated. We shall carefully place each copy of these where it will be most likely to render the best assistance. We shall send these out discriminatingly in our correspondence with those most apt to be interested and to give the Crusade their support. The report contained in the R.S. is certainly an encouraging and inspiring one. Yet we do not fail to see through it all and beneath it all to the heart-breaking struggle you and your associates have had all these days and weeks to make such a showing. We are not insensible to the anxiety and suspense, to the cold indifference of some and the cruel criticism of others that you have had to endure and because of which we can appreciate all the more the splendid showing you are able to make as the result of your labor and sacrifice in the service of the little children upon whose frail bodies there has been laid the duty that should have long ago been performed by their elders. Gene bids me to thank you and Kate warmly beautiful and touching tribute in your Crusade report as published in the
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R.S. He feels you have been far too generous in your praise and regrets that he could not have rendered service more deserving of such fine appreciation. He would have loved to go to Washington in response to Kate
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| Title | Theodore Debs letter to Frank P. O'Hare - May 18, 1922 |
| Creator | Debs, Theodore |
| Source | Debs,Theodore. Letter to Frank P. O'Hare. 18 May 1922. Frank P. O'Hare Papers, 1850-1960. A1152. Missouri History Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | In 1912, Frank O'Hare became editor of the Rip-Saw, a socialist monthly issued from St. Louis. He was married to the prominent socialist Kate Richards O'Hare, who was imprisoned during World War I (April 1919 |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918; Socialism--United States--Periodicals; Political prisoners--Government policy--United States; Political prisoners--United States; Espionage, American; Sedition--United States |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I; Children's Crusade for Amnesty; Rip-Saw |
| Site Accession Number | A1152 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | May 18, 1922 |
| Language | English |