"Unfortunately I shall probably have to go out of town on Wednesday afternoon."

Russell wants to see her before she leaves for America. She wrote to him on 25 August off Fire Island before disembarking in America. He is glad to hear that Sedgwick has put his article into his August number (of the Atlantic Monthly) which has not yet arrived. He thought that America might have been drawn into the war after the sinking of the Lusitania [7 May 1915] "but now that time has elapsed it seems unlikely."

The Pope is the best potentate just now.