Typed Letter Signed, John E. Milholland to Robert Lynd, essayist.

TLS, on letterhead of Meadowmount, Lewis, New York; 19 July 1920. RL's Ireland a Nation 'is not only to my knowledge the best thing you have ever done but one of the very best books that has ever been written on the subject. | I am trying to get a big distribution of it here in America. I shall urge it upon De Valera and the other leaders when I go to New York to-morrow and I am trying to saturate Harding's mind on the subject.' He is 'bitterly disappointed over things in Chicago. Our proposition was not beaten by the Republican opposition but by Irish foolishness; that foolishness which seems to be a concomittant of Hibernian activity whenever that activity becomes most promising.' He reminisces about his 'old friend, Stead' and 'the long years of unbroken friendship we had together in London […] 'love to Begbie, Donald, Massingham and all the good fellows'.