Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, The Paris Peace Conference, 1919, Volume I

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President Wilson to the Counselor of the Department of State ( Polk )

Washington , 22 November, 1918.

My Dear Mr. Counselor: I find that our party for Europe will consist, besides myself, of:¹⁶

• Mrs. Wilson
• Miss Edith Benham, her Secretary
• Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson
• Mr. George Creel
• Mr. Gilbert F. Close
• Irving [Irwin] H. Hoover,

seven secret service men, namely:

• Joseph E. Murphy
• Edmund W. Starling
• John Q. Slye
• William A. Lanvoigt
• John J. Fitzgerald
• Walter G. Ferguson, and
• John L. Sullivan;
• Arthur Brooks, my personal attendant
• Susie Booth, Mrs. Wilson’s maid

Will you not be kind enough to see that the proper arrangements are made for passports? I may have one or two names to add later, but I think not.

Cordially and faithfully yours,

Woodrow Wilson

16. The following list was transmitted to Colonel House in the Department’s telegram No. 63, Nov. 25, 1918, 4 p.m., to the Ambassador in France (file No. 033.1140/251a).