27 November 1928: ". . . [I]t was a great comfort to know in the close finish that the Party would have full protection under your guidance.
"I . . . can only add that you are wrong if you think that you can ever get wholly out of politics. I thought that, too, at one time. . . ."
3 November 1931: ". . . [Y]ou probably saw my statement on the Amendment . . . . I am dictating this before the polls close and I hope that one, three and five will go through. What a queer thing that was for Al [Smith] to fight so bitterly on No. 3! I cannot help remembering the fact that while he was Governor I agreed with almost all the policies he recommended but I was against one or two during those eight years. However, for the sake of party solidarity, I kept my mouth shut. . . . I did not think the issue was of vital enough importance to cause a party dispute."
27 July 1933: ". . . I am glad you wrote to the Paris Herald as you did. Someday we shall change many of the very silly provisions in our present income tax law. . . ."
11 October 1938: "Those figures of yours are intensely interesting . . . . I hope and pray that they are a sure prognostication--and personally I think things look all right.
"The best line that can be circulated in up-State New York--especially among Republican or Independent voters--is 'I propose to vote for [Thomas E.] Dewey--to continue as District Attorney for the balance of his term'. . . ."
29 November 1940: ". . . The difficulty of the Walter-Logan Bill is that it has never been thought out or studied from the point of view of the different agencies. In regard to the latter, some procedures require review on the law and some . . . require none--for the simple reason that such guaranteed review would be used for delay, as in the old days of our own New York codes.
"Dean Acheson's committee has been hard at work and will be ready to report before the next session. This committee . . . finds so many terrible things in the present bill that it has no hesitation in recommending disapproval. As drawn today, the bill should be called 'a bill for the relief of unemployed among lawyers!'"
27 December 1940: ". . . I am glad you mentioned the 1924 [Democratic National] Conventions. After that one in Albany, and about two weeks before Mr. [Charles Francis] Murphy died, he . . . asked me . . . to undertake to round up delegates for Al [Smith]. Louis Howe and I began at once, though it was . . . very late in the year to start. I remember telling C.F. [Murphy] . . . that with hard work and good luck we might be able to get 300 delegates in the National Convention for Al, but that in all probability we could not nominate him; that, however, it would be a good thing to do and we might be able to get him the nomination in 1928 [Smith was, in fact, nominated in 1928]. . . ."
31 August 1942: ". . . I rather fear that either Bennett or Dewey would make distinctly political Governors. However, as between the two there can be no question that the State will be better served by Bennett. . . . The people as a whole are not really very much interested in any political campaign at this time; and the impression the individual candidate makes in the next three months will, I think, decide the Governorship. . . ."
With--Western Union telegram from Roosevelt to Saxe, unsigned, agreeing to serve on a committee. 1 page, oblong 8vo; mounted. 14 October 1925.