Some of the most affecting letters written about Page, indeed, have come from these daily associates of more humble station.

"We so often speak of Mr.
Page," writes one of the Embassy staff--"Findlater, Short, and Frederick"-- these were all English servants at the Embassy; "we all loved him equally, and hardly a day passes that something does not remind us of him, and I often fancy that I hear his laugh, so full of kindness and love of life." And the impression left on those in high position was the same.

"I have seen ladies representing all that is most worldly in Mayfair," writes Mr.Ellery Sedgwick, the editor of the _Atlantic Monthly_, "start at the sudden thought of Page's illness, their eyes glistening with tears." Perhaps what gave most charm to this human side was the fact that Page was fundamentally such a scholarly man.

This was the aspect which especially delighted his English friends.

He preached democracy and Americanism with an emphasis that almost suggested the back-woodsman--the many ideas on these subjects that appear in his letters Page never hesitated to set forth with all due resonance at London dinner tables--yet he phrased his creed in language that was little less than literary style, and illuminated it with illustrations and a philosophy that were the product of the most exhaustive reading.
"Your Ambassador has taught us something that we did not know before," an English friend remarked to an American.