"I loved that man," he once said to an American friend, recalling this event. "I almost wept when he left England."
FOOTNOTES:
[75] Of Aberdeen, N.C., the Ambassador's sister.
[76] "Dramatic Moments in American Diplomacy," by Ralph W. Page, 1918.
[77] The reference is to a letter written in 1823 by Thomas Jefferson to President Monroe at the time when the Holy Alliance was threatening the independence of South America. "With Great Britain," Jefferson wrote, "we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause."
[78] See Vol. II, page 307.