The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I

by Burton Jesse Hendrick

Build the farm, therefore; and let me hear at every stage of that happy game. May the New Year be the best that has ever come for you!

Affectionately,
W.H.P.

FOOTNOTES:

[68] Evidently the battle of Heligoland Bight of August 28, 1914.

[69] The reference in all probability is to Mr. Charles L. Hoover, at that time American Consul at Carlsbad.

[70] German Ambassador in Washington.

[71] Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, whose openly expressed pro-Germanism was making him exceedingly unpopular in the United States.

[72] Evidently written in the latter part of September, 1914.

[73] Miss Katharine A. Page, the Ambassador's daughter.

[74] The Hague, the Cressy, and the Aboukir were torpedoed by a German submarine September 22, 1914. This exploit first showed the world the power of the submarine.