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Preferred Citation:

Newton D. Baker Letter to Otto Miller Letter, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Acquisition Information:

Gift.

Administrative History:

Newton D. Baker was Secretary of War from 1916-1921.

Scope and Contents

Letter from Newton D. Baker, Cleveland, Ohio to Otto Miller thanking him for sending Volume X of the "Gooch and Temperley British Documents" (Origins of the War by G.P. Gooch and Harold Temperley).  He notes that "I am more and more amazed at the light hearted way a lot of people are writing in our papers and magazines about 'the causes of the war!'"  May 8, 1936.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Books
• World War, 1914-1918