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had not gotten picked out and sent to Hyde Park. I put all of those letters in one file. Yes, I will send them, but some of them are not important letters. I mean, they are quite commonplace. They're about something that everybody knows all about anyhow. I probably ought to have these photostated. I put them aside to consider that.

There's quite a number of letters from Adlai Stevenson, and an enormous correspondence with (Charles) C.C. Burlingham. I had no idea that from the very beginning, from '33 on, there was a great back and forth correspondence. Sometimes I have my letter, sometime I don't. His are Little short notes--and some of them quite long--handwritten ones, full of personal expressions. They're very interesting.

I had known Adlai Stevenson for some time, and on very pleasant terms. I think very highly of him, myself. I think he showed a great development during the campaign. He was a much better person, as I saw him in the '52 campaign, than he had been at any other earlier contact, except one, which was after he became Governor. What I relate it to was the experience of getting into local politics in Chicago. And I hadn't seen him during that period when he was getting into the politics of Chicago. I'd heard about him, but I hadn't really seen him.

Then he went to Springfield and he became a Governor, and became a good Governor. Excellent Governor. Made an