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January 8th, 1929.

My dear Finley:

Just a few lines to let you know that I have returned to New York. I sincerely hope that you had delightful holidays and a nice vacation. I spent wonderful days at Lake Placid skiing and skating all day long which did me a world of good.

Now regarding our "enfant douloureux" - I mean the beloved METTERNICH - I just wonder if you think that Secretary Mellon has lived with the picture sufficiently long, so that my visit to Washington would be advisable. I know that you are all most frightfully busy during these days, with Parker Gilbert, etc. May be you think it better to wait a few more days. However, I don't know what the Secretary's plans are and how long he will be in Washington, and if it does not trouble you too much, I would be ever so much obliged to you for letting me have a few words in this connection.

Personally I cannot tell you an awful lot, as in the solitude of the mountains only very little is going on. Last Saturday there was here in New York one of the most brilliant parties of the Season, Mrs. William May Wright's Circus Party, which really is always very good, and one never gets home before bright day light; so you can imagine that I am at present a little world-weary.

Has any news transpired in Washington? If you have a minute, I should love to have a note from you - it is so nice to be "au courant".

Meanwhile I am with my very best regards

Yours very sincerely,




David E. Finley, Esq.,
Treasury Department,
Washington, D.C.