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had many opportunities of renewing my acquaint- 

 ance with him. He was a quiet and reserved man, 

 but his career was so remarkable and so varied thai 

 I may be forgiven for recording it in some detail, 

 He left this country in 1898 to take up his duties as 

 Secretary of State at Washington, and died in 1905, 

 deeply regretted by all who knew him. He never 

 cared to talk much about the poetical efforts of his 

 younger days, though they had won for him no little 

 renown outside the limits of his own country. Of 

 the Senators we met that night Mr. Evarts had a 

 fund of amusing anecdotes, and was quite famous as 

 a raconteur. It was largely due to his influence and 

 support that the diplomatic representative of the 

 United States in this country was first given the 

 rank of Ambassador. 



On December 7 Mr. Chamberlain dined with the 

 Endicotts, and on the following night he, Bergne, 

 Beauclerk, and I went to see Jim the Penman at the 

 National Theatre. It was very well done by a 

 company from the Madison Square Theatre in New 

 York, Ian Forbes Robertson playing Baron Hart- 

 feld, and Miss Ada Dyas, Mrs. Ralston the forger's 

 wife. 



