The best American," he said later, "is a Bostonian who has lived ten years west of the Mississippi." He then showed us his work-box, a compact leather case containing pads of paper, pens, lead pencils, and other requirements of the writer.

I did not see a type-writing machine such as we cartoonists have so often represented in our cartoons of Mr.Roosevelt in Africa.

But, then, cartoonists are not always strictly accurate.
Later on he spoke of the lectures he was to deliver in Berlin, at the Sorbonne in Paris, and in Oxford the following spring.

I told him how surprised I had been to hear that he had prepared these lectures during the rush of the last few weeks of his administration.

He said that he probably would be regarded as a representative American in those lectures and that he wanted to do them just as well as he possibly could.