The editor could easily divine that a sister of Carlyle, expatriated for forty-six years on this side of the Atlantic, must have received a large number of letters from her brother, and it was safe to assume that they had been carefully preserved.

Such proved to be the fact; and a new volume of Carlyle letters, of somewhat more genial character than the other collections, was the outcome of this visit[4].

And another fruit of this journalistic habit was "The Memoirs of a Revolutionist," by Prince Peter Kropotkin.
In 1897 the great Russian nihilist was lecturing in Boston.

Page met him, learned from his own lips his story, and persuaded him to put it in permanent form.

This willingness of Page to admit such a revolutionary person into the pages of the _Atlantic_ caused some excitement in conventional circles.