Chronicles of Oklahoma
Volume 1, No. 2
October, 1921
A WORD OF APPRECIATION
Massachusetts Historical Society
Fenway, Boston.
My dear Mr. Dale:
Thank you for sending me the first issue of your new venture, an extremely creditable number, and your contribution interested
me more than the other contents, perhaps because it is more personal and deals with a picturesque character. I hope the magazine
will be a success, though it can never be profitable. Hard work and no returns in money are compensated by reputation and
the upbuilding of a local society, rewards sufficient to justify the labor and sacrifice. I will lay the “Chronicles” before
our committee with a suggestion that the O. H. S. be placed upon the exchange list, if not already there, so that it will
receive our proceedings in exchange for the Chronicles. Will that be satisfactory?
We are plodding as usual, turning out some things each year, but recognition is slow and historical studies are not held in
the same estimation as our forbears accorded them. I am glad to know that you are inoculating your region with the virus for
without historical standards a people are poor indeed. The strength of a nation depends quite as much on its traditions and
ideals as on its material foundations.
Sincerely yours
Worthington C. Ford.
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