"I always found Page compelling on paper," Mr.Wilson remarked to Mr.Laughlin, during one of the latter's visits to Washington.

"I could never resist him--I get more information from his letters than from any other single source.

Tell him to keep it up." It was during this period that the President used occasionally to read Page's letters to the Cabinet, expressing his great appreciation of their charm and historical importance.

"The President quoted from one of the Ambassador's letters to the Cabinet to-day," a member of the Cabinet wrote to Mrs.Page in February, 1915.

"'Some day,' the President said, 'I hope that Walter Page's letters will be published.