WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON 



MY DEAR MR. JOB : 



As a fellow Harvard man I must thank you for 

 your exceedingly interesting book. I have been delighted 

 with it, and I desire to express to you my sense of the 

 good which comes from such books as yours and from the 

 substitution of the camera for the gun. The older I grow 

 the less I care to shoot anything except " varmints." I do 

 not think it at all advisable that the gun should be given 

 up, nor does it seem to me that shooting wild game under 

 proper restrictions can be legitimately opposed by any who 

 are willing that domestic animals shall be kept for food J 

 but there is altogether too much shooting, and if we can 

 only get the camera in place of the gun and have the 

 sportsman sunk somewhat in the naturalist and lover of 

 wild things, the next generation will see an immense change 

 for the better in the life of our woods and waters. 

 Faithfully yours, 



Tf^~1- / 



(This letter, written after a reading of the author's earlier book, " Among the Water- 

 Fowl," is here printed by permission of the President.) 



