December 12, 1914. My dear [strikeout] Rainsford: I am very much pleased to get your letter and I am delighted that you liked what I wrote about Mexico. I hope you also approved of what I have written about the European war. You were absolutely right about radicalism. I am a radical and I never could be anything else; but I am a sane radical and I know [struck: you] [inserted: we] cannot get people to digest too much radicalism and that therefore a surfeit of it is apt to be very dangerous. If a man dies of a surfeit of good food, the fact that a moderate amount of good food would have been essential to his well-being does not prevent his death. Would you be willing to come out to Oyster Bay some time just for the night so I could tell you about South America and discuss various things? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dr. W. B. Rainsford, Ridgefield, [struck: V][inserted: C]onn.