Typed Letter Signed to G[eorge]. K[enneth]. Menzies, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts.

New York journalist (1847-1928) and biographer of Theodore Roosevelt; Secretary, Isthmian Canal Commission. One page, quarto. Very good, but lightly creased a little grubby. Docketed and bearing the Society's stamp. He has received the letter 'asking me if I can furnish you with material on the social side of the work at Panama. It would give me much pleasure to supply this, were it in such form as to make it possible to do so. There has been a great deal written about it, but nothing in concrete form, so far as my knowledge goes. All that I have to say about it is published in my book, "The Panama Gateway," Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. I am so overwhelmed at present that it is quite impossible for me to make any collection of articles on the subject, much as I should take pleasure in doing so. | I have placed your name on the list of those receiving the Canal Record regularly, beginning with the issue of the present volume.'