Typed Letter signed to George Sylvester Viereck by E. M. House, July 11, 1931

Format is 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Typed on watermarked good quality paper. Letter has been folded and has some pencil marks. This letter responds to several letters from Viereck of the 7th, 8th and 10th of July. House provides advice to Viereck retarding contact with a number of people in Woodrow Wilson's circle. Viereck was preparing a book on the War. States never met Thomas F. Ryan whom Wilson despised. Suggested he write to Mrs. Wilson and address "the great part she played during the President's illness." Discusses having Viereck up for lunch or tea when he is at Wood's Hole. Handwritten note reads: "Your letters are pleasant reading, and are always welcome." Written in ink, presumably, Viereck's handwriting, at the bottom: Answered: George Sylvester Viereck. George Sylvester Viereck (December 31, 1884 - March 18, 1962) was a German-American poet and writer. The Saturday Evening Post called Viereck "the most widely-discussed young literary man in the United States today". In 1923, Viereck published a popular-science book entitled Rejuvenation, which drew the attention of Sigmund Freud, who wrote Viereck asking if he would write a similar book about psychoanalysis. Viereck went on several tours of Europe, interviewing Marshal Foch, Georges Clemenceau, George Bernard Shaw, Oswald Spengler, Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians, Henry Ford, Magnus Hirschfeld, and Albert Einstein. Viereck became close friends with Nikola Tesla. Tesla dedicated his poem "Fragments of Olympian Gossip" to Viereck, in which Tesla ridiculed the scientific establishment of the day. Edward Mandell House (July 26, 1858 - March 28, 1938) was an American diplomat, and an adviser to President Woodrow Wilson. He was known by the nickname Colonel House, although he had performed no military service. He was a highly influential back-stage politician in Texas before becoming a key supporter of the presidential bid of Wilson in 1912. Having a self-effacing manner, he did not hold office but was an "executive agent", Wilson's chief adviser on European politics and diplomacy during World War I (1914-1918) and at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. In 1919 Wilson, suffering from a series of small strokes, broke with House and many other top advisers, believing they had deceived him at Paris. House helped to make four men governor of Texas: James S. Hogg (1892), Charles A. Culberson (1894), Joseph D. Sayers (1898), and S. W. T. Lanham (1902). After their elections, House acted as unofficial adviser to each. In 1893, Hogg appointed House to his military staff with the rank of lieutenant colonel, a position which came with a title but no actual military responsibilities. He was reappointed by Culberson, Sayers, and Lanham, and was soon known as "Colonel House", the title which he used for the rest of his career. After House withdrew from Texas politics and moved to New York, he became an adviser, close friend and supporter of New Jersey governor Woodrow Wilson in 1911, and helped him win the Democratic presidential nomination in 1912. He became an intimate of Wilson and helped set up his administration. House was offered the cabinet position of his choice (except for Secretary of State, which was already pledged to William Jennings Bryan) but declined, choosing instead "to serve wherever and whenever possible". House was even provided living quarters within the White House. He continued as an adviser to Wilson particularly in the area of foreign affairs. House functioned as Wilson's chief negotiator in Europe during the negotiations for peace (1917-1919) and as chief deputy for Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference. In the 1916 presidential election, House declined any public role but was Wilson's top campaign adviser: "he planned its structure; set its tone; guided its finance; chose speakers, tactics, and strategy; and, not least, handled the campaign's greatest asset and greatest potential liability: its brilliant but temperamental candidate." House helped Wilson out.…