"It is true that I very nearly died in Peking, but the story that I was actually dead was an intelligent anticipation on the part of Japanese journalists. Did you hear that it was by the care of German doctors, in a German hospital, that my life was saved?"

"Yes, I saw that we met in the pages of the International Review" (during the war).

BR cannot accept his invitation to go to Hamburg. He will be in Bavaria for a week in August and has also accepted invitations to Switzerland and Italy. He cannot be abroad any longer than one month.

"I think often of Theodore Davies; he could have played a beneficent part in the present horrible condition of the world."