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Benjamin Ide Wheeler. To Roland Cotton
Smith. To James H. Barry.
IX. CABINET TALK AND WAR PLANS. 1917
Cabinet Meetings--National Council of
Defense--Bernstorff--War--Plan for Railroad Consolidation--U-Boat
Sinkings Revealed--Alaska
LETTERS: To George W. Lane. To George W. Lane. To George W.
Lane. To Frank I. Cobb. To George W. Lane. To George W. Lane. To
Edward J. Wheeler. To George W. Lane. To Frank I. Cobb. To George
W. Lane. To George W. Lane. To Frank I. Cobb. To Will Irwin. To
Robert Lansing. To Henry Lane Eno. To George B. Dorr. To Hon.
Woodrow Wilson. To Hon. Woodrow Wilson. To John O'H. Cosgrave.
X. CABINET NOTES IN WAR-TIME. 1918
Notes on Cabinet Meetings--School Gardens--A Democracy Lacks
Foresight--Use of National Resources--Washington in War-time--The
Sacrifice of War--Farms for Soldiers
LETTERS: To Franklin K. Lane, Jr. To George W. Lane. To Albert
Shaw. To Walter H. Page. To John Lyon. To Frank Lyon. To Miss
Genevieve King. To John McNaught. To Hon. Woodrow Wilson. To
Allan Pollok. To E. S. Pillsbury. To William Marion Reedy. Notes on
Cabinet Meetings. To Daniel Willard. To James H. Hawley. To Samuel
G. Blythe. To George W. Lane. To Edgar C. Bradley.
XI. AFTER-WAR PROBLEMS--LEAVING WASHINGTON. 1919
After-war Problems--Roosevelt Memorials--Americanization--Religion
--Responsibility of Press--Resignation
LETTERS: To E. C. Bradley. To George W. Lane. To George W. Lane.
To William Boyce Thompson. To Benjamin Ide Wheeler. To E. S.
Martin. To George W. Lane. To Van H. Manning. To E. C. Bradley. To
Mrs. Louise Herrick Wall. To--. To M. A. Mathew. To Herbert C. Pell,
Jr. To Henry P. Davison. To George W. Lane. To C. S. Jackson. To

John Crawford Burns. To Frank I. Cobb. To Mrs. Louise Herrick Wall.
To Mrs. M. A. Andersen. To George W. Lane. To Daniel J. O'Neill. To
Hamlin Garland. To Hugo K. Asher. To Admiral Gary Grayson. To
Herbert C. Pell, Jr. To Hon. Woodrow Wilson. To Frank W. Mondell.
To Robert W. De Forest.
XII. POLITICAL COUNSEL--LINCOLN'S EYES. 1920
Suggestions to Democratic Nominee for President--On Election of
Senators--Lost Leaders--Lincoln's Eyes--William James's Letters
LETTERS: To William Phelps Eno. To Roland Cotton Smith. To
James M. Cox. To Timothy Spellacy. To Edward L. Doheny. To
Franklin D. Roosevelt. To Mrs. George Ehle. To Isadore B. Dockweiler.
To Hall McAllister. To Mrs. George Ehle. To Benjamin Ide Wheeler.
To John W. Hallowell. To John W. Hallowell. To Robert Lansing. To
Carl Snyder. To William R. Wheeler. To George Otis Smith. To
George W. Wickersham. Lincoln's Eyes. To Benjamin Ide Wheeler. To
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. To Lathrop Brown. To Timothy Spellacy.
To Frank I. Cobb. To John G. Gehring. To John W. Hallowell. To John
G. Gehring.
XIII. LETTERS TO ELIZABETH. 1919-1920
LETTERS: To Mrs. Ralph Ellis.
XIV. FRIENDS AND THE GREAT HOPE. 1921
Need for Democratic Program--Religious Faith--Men who have
Influenced Thought--A Sounder Industrial Life --A Super-University
for Ideas --"I Accept"--Fragment
LETTERS: To Mrs. Philip C. Kauffmann. To Benjamin Ide Wheeler.
To Lathrop Brown. To Mrs. George Ehle. To Mrs. William Phillips. To
James H. Barry. To Michael A. Spellacy. To William R. Wheeler. To V.
C. Scott O'Connor. Letter sent to several friends. To John G. Gehring.
To Lathrop Brown. To Lathrop Brown. To Adolph C. Miller. To John
G. Gehring. To John W. Hallowell. To Curt G. Pfeiffer. To John G.
Gehring. To D. M. Reynolds. To Mrs. Cordenio Severance. To
Alexander Vogelsang. To James S. Harlan. To Adolph C. Miller. To
Lathrop Brown. To John G. Gehring. To John H. Wigmore. To Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt. To John W. Hallowell. To John G. Gehring. To
Hall McAllister. To Mrs. Frederic Peterson. To Roland Cotton Smith.
To John G. Gehring. To Adolph C. Miller. To Robert Lansing. To
James D. Phelan. To Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hertle. To Alexander

Vogelsang. To John Finley. To James H. Barry. To Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt. To friends who had telegraphed and written for news.--"I
accept." To Alexander Vogelsang. To John W. Hallowell. To Robert
Lansing. Fragment.

ILLUSTRATIONS
FRANKLIN K. LANE
FRANKLIN K. LANE With his younger brothers, George and
Frederic.
FRANKLIN K. LANE At eighteen.
FRANKLIN K. LANE As City and County Attorney.
FRANKLIN K. LANE, MRS. LANE, MRS. MILLER, AND ADOLPH
C. MILLER
FRANKLIN K. LANE WITH Ethan Allen, Superintendent of Rainier
National Park, Washington
FRANKLIN K. LANE AND George B. Dorr In Lafayette National
Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine.
FRANKLIN K. LANE IN 1917 Taken in Lafayette National Park.
"LANE PEAK," Tatoosh Range, Rainier National Park

DATES
1864. July 15. Born near Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
1871-76. Taken to California. Went to Grammar School at Napa,
California. 1876. Went to Oakland, California. Oakland High School.
1884-86. University of California, Berkeley, California. Special student.
1885. Reporting on Alta California in San Francisco for John P. Irish.
1887. Studied Hastings Law School.