I have all the boys in the Embassy full of zeal and they are tackling the Secretaries of the Central and South American legations.

We've got a _principle_ now to deal by with them.

They'll see after a while.
English people are all right, too--except the Doctrinaires.

They write much rank ignorance.

But the learned men learn things last of all.
I thank you heartily for your good news about Tyrrell, about the President (but I'm sorry he's tired: make him quit eating meat and play golf); about the Panama tolls; about the Currency Bill (my love to McAdoo); about my own little affairs .-- We are looking with the very greatest pleasure to the coming of the young White House couple.