TOP RIGHT IS SS. CELTIC, MARCH 13, 1911
ADDRESSED TO A PERSON IN CLEVELAND, OHIO

DEAR SIR, I AM DELIGHTED TO SEND YOU WITH THIS “????” MY BEST “????” FOR YOUR LETTER WHICH REACHED ME MARCH 6TH, AND WOULD HAVE BEEN ANSWERED EARLIER HAD I NOT BEEN ABOUT TO SAIL.  IT GAVE ME REAL PLEASURE.  SINCERELY YOURS, GIFFORD PINCHOT.

BIOGRAPHY OF GIFFORD PINCHOT:
(August 11, 1865 – October 4, 1946) was the first Chief of the United States Forest Service (1905–1910) and the Governor of Pennsylvania (1923–1927, 1931–1935). He was a Republican and Progressive.

Pinchot is known for reforming the management and development of forests in the United States and for advocating the conservation of the nation’s reserves by planned use and renewal. He called it “the art of producing from the forest whatever it can yield for the service of man.” Pinchot coined the term conservation ethic as applied to natural resources.

Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest “as though it were spelled pin’cho, with slight emphasis on the first syllable.”