And there's been no spilling of American oratory since! If you had published a shilling edition of the words and music of the Star Spangled Banner and the Battle Hymn you could have sent a cargo of 'em here and sold them.

There isn't paper enough in this Kingdom to get out an edition here.
Give my love to all the Doubledays and to all the fellows in the shop, and (I wonder if you will) try your hand at another letter.
You write very legibly these days! Sincerely yours, WALTER H.PAGE.
"Curiously enough," Page wrote about this time, "these most exciting days of the war are among the most barren of exciting topics for private correspondence.

The 'atmosphere' here is unchanging--to us--and the British are turning their best side to us continuously.

They are increasingly appreciative, and they see more and more clearly that our coming into the war is all that saved them from a virtual defeat--I mean the public sees this more and more clearly, for, of course, the Government has known it from the beginning.

I even find a sort of morbid fear lest they do not sufficiently show their appreciation.