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Austria-Serbia complication, and was afraid something serious might grow out of it.
July 12, 1914.
I had Charles Grasty and Sidney Brooks to lunch. We talked mainly of po-
litical conditions at home. Grasty and I defended Mr. Bryan, whom Brooks was
inclined to ridicule. Brooks remarked that I was perhaps the least written of
man in America, that I had done so much, and he would like to know how it happened.
I told him if it had not been for the President's repeated visits to me in New York
I very much doubted whether I would have been written about at all. That I had
managed to keep out of the limelight for twenty-five years and I had a feeling
that I might have continued to do so and still have accomplished the same things.
Grasty spoke of it being a fortunate thing for the country that the President
and I had formed such a warm friendship. He thought we supplemented one another
perfectly.
In speaking of the Pages, Brooks said Mrs. Page had made the greatest success
of "any Ambassadress within his memory". This is delightful to hear.
After lunch Brooks, Loulie and I went to Holly Lodge for tea and spent the
afternoon with Burdett-Coutts. The other guests were Lord and Lady Vivian, Mr.
and Miss Balfour and young Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, a nephew and, I understand, the
heir of Burdett Coutts. Brooks tells me that Bartlett is a war correspondent of
some distinction and writes brilliantly.
There are sixty acres in Holly Lodge beautifully laid out. It is on-
ly twelve minutes from the heart of London, and the town extends for eight miles
beyond. On clear days the City seems to lie at one's feet, since the elevation
is some three hundred feet above the Thames.
July 13, 1914.
I lunched <add>at Brook's in St James Street</add> with Sidney Brooks, Senator Owen, Marlow, Editor of the Daily
Mail, and Arthur Pollen. I entertained them for awhile with stories of Cap-
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Austria-Serbia complication, and was afraid something serious might grow out of it.
July 12, 1914.
I had Charles Grasty and Sidney Brooks to lunch. We talked mainly of po-
litical conditions at home. Grasty and I defended Mr. Bryan, whom Brooks was
inclined to ridicule. Brooks remarked that I was perhaps the least written of
man in America, that I had done so much, and he would like to know how it happened.
I told him if it had not been for the President's repeated visits to me in New York
I very much doubted whether I would have been written about at all. That I had
managed to keep out of the limelight for twenty-five years and I had a feeling
that I might have continued to do so and still have accomplished the same things.
Grasty spoke of it being a fortunate thing for the country that the President
and I had formed such a warm friendship. He thought we supplemented one another
perfectly.
In speaking of the Pages, Brooks said Mrs. Page had made the greatest success
of "any Ambassadress within his memory". This is delightful to hear.
After lunch Brooks, Loulie and I went to Holly Lodge for tea and spent the
afternoon with Burdett-Coutts. The other guests were Lord and Lady Vivian, Mr.
and Miss Balfour and young Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, a nephew and, I understand, the
heir of Burdett Coutts. Brooks tells me that Bartlett is a war correspondent of
some distinction and writes brilliantly.
There are sixty acres in Holly Lodge beautifully laid out. It is on-
ly twelve minutes from the heart of London, and the town extends for eight miles
beyond. On clear days the City seems to lie at one's feet, since the elevation
is some three hundred feet above the Thames.
July 13, 1914.
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