34 WITH MR. CHAMBERLAIN IN THE 



Mr. Wallace Graham, Q.C., and Mr. George John- 

 son completed the Canadian Delegation. 



The Hon. Sir Lionel Sackville West, K.C.M.G., 

 then British Minister at Washington, was, as already 

 stated, the third British Plenipotentiary. He suc- 

 ceeded to the title of second Baron Sackville on the 

 death of his brother in 1888 and died in 1908. His 

 domestic and family affairs have been so fully 

 exploited of late years in the Law Courts of this 

 country that it is unnecessary to refer to them 

 here. He was a man of an extremely reticent nature, 

 who seldom spoke unless some one spoke to him. 

 So retiring, indeed, was he that if I remember aright 

 his only oral contribution to the thirty meetings of 

 the Conference was the expression of a wish that a 

 certain window might be closed. I acted as Private 

 Secretary to Mr. Chamberlain during our stay at 

 Washington, which involved a tremendous amount 

 of correspondence with all sorts and conditions of 

 people on every conceivable topic, ranging from the 

 provisions of Acts of Parliament affecting landlords 

 and tenants in Ireland down to the paving of the 

 streets of Birmingham. I used to go through these 

 letters with Mr. Chamberlain after breakfast, and 

 he would tell me viva voce what he wished said in 

 reply to the more important ones. Sometimes I 



