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period.
For possible future use I shall be grateful for any letters that I have not
already seen, and if in the preparation of these letters for publication we
have allowed any mistakes to slip in, I hope that the error will be called
to my attention.
Anne Wintermute Lane
March, 1922

CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION
Youth--Education--Characteristics

II. POLITICS AND JOURNALISM. 1884-1894
Politics--Newspaper Work--New York--Buying into Tacoma News
--Marriage--Sale of Newspaper
LETTERS: To John H. Wigmore To John H. Wigmore To John H.
Wigmore To John H. Wigmore
III. LAW PRACTICE AND POLITICAL ACTIVITIES. 1894-1906
Law--Drafting New City Charter--Elected as City and County
Attorney-- Gubernatorial Campaign--Mayoralty Campaign--Earthquake
--Appointment as Interstate Commerce Commissioner
LETTERS: To P. T. Spurgeon To John H. Wigmore To John H.
Wigmore To John H. Wigmore To Lyman Naugle To John H.
Wigmore To John H. Wigmore To William R. Wheeler To Orva G.
Williams To the Iroquois Club, Los Angeles, California To Isadore B.
Dockweiler To Edward B. Whitney To Hon. Theodore Roosevelt To
Benjamin Ide Wheeler To William E. Smythe To John H. Wigmore To
Benjamin Ide Wheeler To William R. Wheeler To John H. Wigmore
To William R. Wheeler
IV. RAILROAD AND NATIONAL POLITICS. 1906-1912
Increased Powers of Interstate Commerce Commission--Harriman
Inquiry--Railroad Regulation--Letters to Roosevelt
LETTERS: To Edward F. Adams To Benjamin Ide Wheeler To Elihu
Root To E. B. Beard To George W. Lane To Charles K. McClatchy To
Lawrence F. Abbott To John H. Wigmore To Mrs. Franklin K. Lane To
Theodore Roosevelt To John H. Wigmore To William R. Wheeler To
Lawrence F. Abbott To Charles K. McClatchy To Charles K.
McClatchy To John Crawford Burns To Theodore Roosevelt To
Samuel G. Blythe To Sidney E. Mezes To John H. Wigmore To
George W. Lane To Carl Snyder From Oliver Wendell Holmes To
Oliver Wendell Holmes To John H. Wigmore To Daniel Willard To
John McNaught
V. EXPRESS CASE--CABINET APPOINTMENTS 1912-1913
Politics--Democratic Convention--Nomination of Wilson --Report on
Express Case--Democratic Victory--Problems for New Administration
--On Cabinet Appointments
LETTERS: To Albert Shaw To Curt G. Pfeiffer To George W. Lane To
Oscar S. Straus To Benjamin Ide Wheeler, To George W. Lane. To
John H. Wigmore. To Timothy Spellacy. To Adolph C. Miller. To

William F. McComba, To Hugo K. Asher. To Francis G. Newlands. To
Woodrow Wilson. To William J. Bryan. To James D. Phelan. To
Herbert Harley. To Charles K. McClatchy. To Ernest S. Simpson. To
Fairfax Harrison. To James P. Brown. To Adolph C. Miller. To Edward
M. House. To Benjamin Ide Wheeler. To Sidney E. Mezes. To John H.
Wigmore. To John H. Wigmore. To Joseph N. Teal. To Edward M.
House. To Mitchell Innes.
VI. SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. 1913-1915
Appointment as Secretary of the Interior--Reorganization of the
Department--Home Club--Bills on Public Lands
LETTERS:
To John H. Wigmore. To Walter H. Page. To Edwin A. Alderman. To
Theodore Roosevelt. To Lawrence F. Abbott. To William M. Bole. To
Fairfax Harrison. To Frank Reese. To Mark Sullivan. To Edward M.
House. To James H. Barry. To Edward F. Adams. To Hon. Woodrow
Wilson, To Benjamin Ide Wheeler. To Albert Shaw. To Charles K.
Field. To Frederic J. Lane. To Edward E. Leake. To William R.
Wheeler. To--. To his Brother on his Birthday. To Cordenio Severance.
To Hon. Woodrow Wilson. To Theodore Roosevelt. To Hon. Woodrow
Wilson. To Lawrence F. Abbott.
VII. EUROPEAN WAR AND PERSONAL CONCERNS. 1914-1915
Endorsement of Hoover--German Audacity--LL.D. from Alma Mater
--England's Sea Policy--Christmas letters
LETTERS: To William J. Bryan. To John Crawford Burns. To
Alexander Vogelsang. To John H. Wigmore. To John Crawford Burns.
To Edward J. Wheeler. To John Crawford Burns. To William P.
Lawlor. To William G. McAdoo. To John Crawford Burns. To E. W.
Scripps. To George W. Wickersham. To Frederic J. Lane. To John
Crawford Burns. To Eugene A. Avery. To John F. Davis. To Dick
Mead. To John Crawford Burns. To Sidney E. Mezes. To Cordenio
Severance. To Frederick Dixon. To Robert H. Patchin. To Francis R.
Wall. To John H. Wigmore. To Mrs. Adolph C. Miller. To Mrs.
Magnus Andersen. To Mrs. Adolph C. Miller.
VIII. AMERICAN AND MEXICAN AFFAIRS.
On Writing English--Visit to Monticello--Citizenship for Indians--On
Religion--American-Mexican Joint Commission
LETTERS: To William M. Bole. To Mrs. Adolph C. Miller. To

Edward F. Adams. To Carl Snyder. To Mrs. Franklin K. Lane. To Will
Irwin. To--. To Hon. Woodrow Wilson. To Frederic J. Lane. To Frank
L Cobb. To George W. Wickersham. To H. B. Brougham. To Frederic
J. Lane. To Hon. Woodrow Wilson. To Mrs. Franklin K. Lane. To Mrs.
Adolph C. Miller. To Mrs. Franklin K. Lane. To William R. Wheeler.
To James S. Harlan. To Hon. Woodrow Wilson. To Alexander
Vogelsang. To Frederic J. Lane. To Frank I. Cobb. To R. M. Fitzgerald.
To James K. Moffitt. To