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T H E HART F O R D -C O N N E C T I CUT T R U S T COMPANY ARTHUR R DAY CHAIRMAN O F B O A R D O F T R U S T E E S JOHN B. B Y R N E PRESIDENT CABLE: A D D R E S S h a r c o t r u s t HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT O f f ic e o f t h e P r e s id e n t October IS, 1956 Bon. Marriner S. Eccles, Chairman Federal Reserve Board Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: The Banking Committee of the New England Council has conducted a bank conference every year for the past six years in Boston on the day usually just before or just after the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Fed eral Reserve Bank of Boston. These conferences attract an attendance of from four hundred to four hundred fifty bankers from all parts of the six New England States. The program usually consists of about six subjects bearing directly upon banking problems. The conference this year will be held on Friday, November 15, or the day after the Federal Reserve meeting, at the Hotel Statler in Boston and, as Chairman of the New England Bankers Committee, I am extending a very cordial invitation to you to attend our conference and to talk to the gathering on any subject you may choose. In the event that your engagements will permit you to accept our invitation, I should like very much to have you bring with you Mr. Lawrence Clayton as the guest of the conference. I earnestly hope that you can be with us because this is truly a representative gathering of New England Bankers and we should all very much appreciate your being able to meet with us. JBB:M Chairman, Bankers’ Committee New England Council. October 16, 1936 Mr. John b. byrne, President The Hartford-Connecticut Trust Company Hartford, Connecticut Dear Mr. cyrne: This will acknowledge your letter of October 13th in which you very kindly extend an invitation io speak before the meeting of the New England Council, to be held under the auspices of its Banking eoiomittee on Friday, November 13th at the Hotel ttatler in boston. In view of the very representative character of this gathering and the fact that I may speak off the record, I am glad to accept your kind invitation. In this connection will you kindly advise me the time allotted for my remarks, the hour of the meeting, approximate hour of my talk and any other details you think may assist me in fulfilling this engagement. Your further courtesy in including my assistant, Mr. Lawrence Clayton, as a guest of the conference is appre ciated and Mr. Clayton has asked me to thank you and advise that he will come along. Awaiting the pleasure of greeting you personally in November, I am Yours very sincerely, M. b. Eccles Uiairman LC/fgr TH E HARTFORD-CONNECTICUT TRUST COMPANY ARTHUR R DAY CHAIRMAN O F B OA RD O F T R U S T E E S JOHN B- B Y R N E PRESIDENT c a b l e : ADDRESS HARCOTRUST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT O f f i c e o f t h e P October 19, 1936. r e s i d e n t Hon. Marriner S. Eccles, Chairman Federal Reserve Board Washington, D. C, Dear Mr. Eccles: Your cordial letter of October 16, accepting our invitation to speak before the meet ing of the New England Council on Friday, November 13, is received with much appreciation. The conference takes the form of a one day program with six speakers, three in the morning and three in the afternoon. We, of course, will be very glad to place you on the program at any time during the day which would best suit your convenience, but we would suggest about 10:30 in the morning as the most suitable for you. If this is agreeable to you, I would appreciate your acceptance of the time, the title of_ whatever subject you want to discuss for program pirposei, your remarks to take about forty minutes, and according to your expressed wish, your talk to be off the record. Yours ver*- truly, JBB:M Chairman, Bankers* Committee, New England Council. October ¿4> 1936. Mr. John a. Byrne, President The Hartford-Connecticut Trust Company Hartford, Connecticut Dear Mr. Byrne: Mr. Eccles has asked me to »ply to yours of October 19th and to say that he would prefer to speak last on the morning program. He would also prefer not to assign a definite title to his re marks at this time, which of course, will be di rected to the economic and monetary problems of the country. »'ill you please advise the place at which the meeting will be held, also the opening hour of the morning session. Mth kind regards, I mi Yours sincerely, Lawrence Clayton Assistant to the Chairman LC/fgr
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