White addressed himself to the immigration of Orientals and to plans for their education in an exchange of letters with Roosevelt in February. There were plans made for the May meeting of the Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration in anticipation of the second Hague conference, and a Van Loon letter on February fifth described the political climate in Russia and Poland. A March 16th letter listed the paintings William Thomas Evans gave to the National Gallery of Art. His grandson's death was the subject of letters in early February, and in March White took a Caribbean cruise. The letters record his visits to the Panama Canal site, Venezuela, and the Antilles. Among university correspondents were Liberty Hyde Bailey, Charles Ezra Cornell, and Wilder.