Horace M. Towner to FPK, January 31, 1924
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Title
Horace M. Towner to FPK, January 31, 1924
Description
Letter from Horace M. Towner to FPK
Creator
Horace M. Towner
Source
From the collection of Francis Parkinson Keyes Papers, Special Collections, University of Vermont Library.
Date
1924-01-31
Contributor
Digitized, transcribed, and encoded by Natalie Faulstich.
Format
Typed letter
Type
Document
Identifier
Box 3, Folder 22
Coverage
Washington, D. C.
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HOTEL HAMILTON
FOURTEENTH AND K STREETS
WASHINGTON. D. C.
January 31st, 1924.
My dear Mrs. Keyes:
I hope I made it clear to you in our little conversation which we had the other day how much I hope you can visit Porto Rico soon. Porto Rico has a pivotal place in the Americas. It is neither a part of North America nor of South America, but it has been Providentially given to the United States on whom more than on any other American nation rests the responsibility of bringing the Americas into harmonious relations. From the vantage ground of Porto Rico the influence for all those things good men and women most desire in American life can be stimulated and extended. That is the work I am starting and encouraging. The other day we closed an agreement with Columbia University to establish in conjunction with our Insular government a School of Tropical Medicine. Its appeal will be primarily to the southern part of North America and the Northern part of South America, and it will be the only school of the kind in the world. But that, we trust, is only the beginning for we hope to build from this a great Pan-American University which shall appeal to and bring into union the literature and science of the Latins and Anglo-Saxons of the two Americas. We have [just] first secured the establishment of a Hydrographic center and station at San Juan which will [cover] carry the Gulf and Caribbean waters as well as the western central Atlantic. We are making San Juan a distributing station for North American manufactures and products. So you see we are becoming decididly interesting.
Besides, there is no more beautiful island in all the Seven Seas, nor a more historically interesting spot on this side of the Atlantic than Porto Rico, and a people you cannot help but love, - 75% white.
And so we hope Good Housekeeping will send you down soon to "write us up", in you own inimitable way, for our good and the world's enlightenment.
Sincerely yours,
Horace M. Towner
Mrs. Henry W. Keyes,
2400 Sixteenth St.,
Washington, D. C.
FOURTEENTH AND K STREETS
WASHINGTON. D. C.
January 31st, 1924.
My dear Mrs. Keyes:
I hope I made it clear to you in our little conversation which we had the other day how much I hope you can visit Porto Rico soon. Porto Rico has a pivotal place in the Americas. It is neither a part of North America nor of South America, but it has been Providentially given to the United States on whom more than on any other American nation rests the responsibility of bringing the Americas into harmonious relations. From the vantage ground of Porto Rico the influence for all those things good men and women most desire in American life can be stimulated and extended. That is the work I am starting and encouraging. The other day we closed an agreement with Columbia University to establish in conjunction with our Insular government a School of Tropical Medicine. Its appeal will be primarily to the southern part of North America and the Northern part of South America, and it will be the only school of the kind in the world. But that, we trust, is only the beginning for we hope to build from this a great Pan-American University which shall appeal to and bring into union the literature and science of the Latins and Anglo-Saxons of the two Americas. We have [just] first secured the establishment of a Hydrographic center and station at San Juan which will [cover] carry the Gulf and Caribbean waters as well as the western central Atlantic. We are making San Juan a distributing station for North American manufactures and products. So you see we are becoming decididly interesting.
Besides, there is no more beautiful island in all the Seven Seas, nor a more historically interesting spot on this side of the Atlantic than Porto Rico, and a people you cannot help but love, - 75% white.
And so we hope Good Housekeeping will send you down soon to "write us up", in you own inimitable way, for our good and the world's enlightenment.
Sincerely yours,
Horace M. Towner
Mrs. Henry W. Keyes,
2400 Sixteenth St.,
Washington, D. C.