William Frederick Bigelow to FPK, February 13, 1924
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William Frederick Bigelow to FPK, February 13, 1924
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William Frederick Bigelow
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From the collection of Frances Parkinson Keyes Papers, Special Collections, University of Vermont
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1924-02-13
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Gerard Colby
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Good Housekeeping
Editorial Rooms
W.F. Bigelow, editor
119 West 40th ST.
New York City
Feb. 13, 1924
Mrs. Frances Parkinson Keyes
2400 - 16th Street
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mrs. Keyes:
The first thing you ask about in your letter of February 10th is whether or not I wish to go to Los Angeles. I do not. I have made no arrangements for anyone to go out there, as I have a half formed notion that the General Federation to commission some one who is going in some other capacity to act also as our representative.
I have had several chances to get some one else to go to the Republican convention, but I have told all and sundry that you are already picked for that. In addition I want you to take in the Democratic convention here. After my experience of four years ago when two writers radically different in their points of view reported the conventions for me -- I feel that it would be well to try this time to have them both described by the same writer. And I don't know anyone who would be more likely to write a readable story than yourself. So I hope you can put both those dates on your calendar.
I have already commissioned a young women who is a member of the Y.W.C.A. office staff here to write me an article about the Y.W. biennial. If she does it well, all right. If it isn't a good article, I don't know that so very much will be lost. You see I am getting just a little bit hard boiled with regard to these women's conventions.
I am so completely disgusted with Congress that I do not feel like asking you to stay in Washington because of something it may or may not do. So if you want to pack you trunk and skip off to Porto Rico after April 19th, I shall be glad to have you do so. At the same time please remember that Alaska, Hawaii, and the Phillippines are something else again, being from five to fiteen thousand miles farther away.
Sincerely,
W.F. Bigelow
encl.
Editorial Rooms
W.F. Bigelow, editor
119 West 40th ST.
New York City
Feb. 13, 1924
Mrs. Frances Parkinson Keyes
2400 - 16th Street
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mrs. Keyes:
The first thing you ask about in your letter of February 10th is whether or not I wish to go to Los Angeles. I do not. I have made no arrangements for anyone to go out there, as I have a half formed notion that the General Federation to commission some one who is going in some other capacity to act also as our representative.
I have had several chances to get some one else to go to the Republican convention, but I have told all and sundry that you are already picked for that. In addition I want you to take in the Democratic convention here. After my experience of four years ago when two writers radically different in their points of view reported the conventions for me -- I feel that it would be well to try this time to have them both described by the same writer. And I don't know anyone who would be more likely to write a readable story than yourself. So I hope you can put both those dates on your calendar.
I have already commissioned a young women who is a member of the Y.W.C.A. office staff here to write me an article about the Y.W. biennial. If she does it well, all right. If it isn't a good article, I don't know that so very much will be lost. You see I am getting just a little bit hard boiled with regard to these women's conventions.
I am so completely disgusted with Congress that I do not feel like asking you to stay in Washington because of something it may or may not do. So if you want to pack you trunk and skip off to Porto Rico after April 19th, I shall be glad to have you do so. At the same time please remember that Alaska, Hawaii, and the Phillippines are something else again, being from five to fiteen thousand miles farther away.
Sincerely,
W.F. Bigelow
encl.