In his Southern trip Page called--self-invited--upon Jefferson Davis and was cordially received.

At Atlanta, as he records above, he made friends with that chivalric champion of a resurrected South, Henry Grady; here also he obtained fugitive glimpses of a struggling and briefless lawyer, who, like Page, was interested more in books and writing than in the humdrum of professional life, and who was then engaged in putting together a brochure on _Congressional Government_ which immediately gave him a national standing.

The name of this sympathetic acquaintance was Woodrow Wilson.
[Illustration: Walter H.Page in 1876, when he was a Fellow of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.] [Illustration: Basil L.Gildersleeve, Professor of Greek, Johns Hopkins University, 1876-1915] Another important event had taken place, for, at St.Louis, on November 15, 1880, Page had married Miss Willia Alice Wilson.

Miss Wilson was the daughter of a Scotch physician, Dr.William Wilson, who had settled in Michigan, near Detroit, in 1832.

When she was a small child she went with her sister's family--her father had died seven years before--to North Carolina, near Cary; and she and Page had been childhood friends and schoolmates.