COUNCILO 
 
 
HAROLD C. ANDERSON 
   DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
L. A. BARRETT 
   CALIFORNIA 
HARVEY BROOME 
   TENNESSEE 
IRVING M. CLARK 
   WASHINGTON 
BERNARD FRANK 
   DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
DOROTHY SACHS JACKSON 
   MARYLAND 
ALDO LEOPOLD 
   WISCONSIN 
BENTON MAcKAYE 
   MASSACHUSETTS 
GEORGE MARSHALL 
   NEW YORK 
OLAUS MURIE 
   WYOMING 
ERNEST OBERHOLTZER 
   MINNESOTA 
ROBERT STERLING YARD 
   DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
 
 
THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY 
 
         1840 MINTWOOD PLACE 
 
           WASHINGTON, D. C. 
 
 
ROBERT STERLING YARD 
   PRESIDENT 
   PERMANENT SECRETARY 
BENTON MACKAYE 
   VICE PRESIDENT 
HAROLD C. ANDERSON 
   TREASURER 
 
 
                                        June 18, 1940 
 
 
 
 
 
Dr. ALldo Leopold 
424 University Farm Place 
Madison, Wisconsin 
 
My dear A.ldo: 
 
     I ought to have written you Saturday, but that meeting tired me 
out. It began at 9:30 and lasted till 6. At noon the bunch sat around 
a couple of tables in the dining room and ate chops, potatoes, and 
strawberry shortcake, and got back at once to work. 
 
     Those who attended were Anderson, Broome, Frank, Mrs. Jackson, 
MacKay., George Marshall, and myself. A quorum, filling that round din- 
ner table that I had brought up from the storeroom in the cellar. My 
secretary sat at a table behind me and collected resolutions etc. 
 
     It was the same crowd, with George instead of Bob, which consti- 
tutedr our previous annual meetings. Once Ober was there. 
 
 
     This is a strenuous crowd, It greets every proposal with arguments.

Those four who, during several years of occasional tramps along Tennessee

mountains, had talked each other and Bob into starting a Wilderness 
Society, came prepared to do what they thought Bob would have liked to 
have done, and did it. They were Broome, Frank, and MacKaye, then all of

Knoxville, plus Anderson of Washington, who had been secretary of MacKayels

Appalachian Trail. The meeting precisely resembled those of Bob's day; 
eager, argumentative, and very noisy in spots. I got through everything 
I wanted except a couple of personnel items of which I will write you 
later. 
 
     We wAssed you seriously. There were several nice things said about 
you. 
 
     It will take some ttme to get the Minutes into shape, especially 
as the Living Wilderness is now back in my hands in page proofs, and I cb

not want to delay that any longer than possible. 
 
     Your suggestion went big for a combination with the Ecological Socie,

was universally approved, and your resolution passed. 
 
     In a little while, with more time, I will be writing you again. I 
 
think we have a great deal in common. 
 
                                     Sincerely yours, 
 
 
RSY: y 
 
 
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