The original two volumes of “The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page,” published in 1922, were incomplete in one important respect. They contained only a very few of the Ambassador’s letters to President Wilson. Page was a careful correspondent in that his writings represented his completely reasoned views on the great events that comprised his daily life, but he was a careless one in failing to preserve the record he had so conscientiously made. Sometimes he would finish a letter at a single sitting; more frequently he would work industriously until mailing time and hurriedly thrust the product into the diplomatic bag-no eyes having seen it except his own. In preparing his biography, therefore, it was necessary to assemble the letters from many sources. With the exception of the few of which copies had been made, Page’s correspondence with the President was not placed at the disposal of his biographer. Mr. Wilson’s death has removed the prohibition upon the publication of these letters. At the same time the State Department has consented to a selection from Page’s war-time telegrams. These Presidential letters and telegrams-omitting, of course, those already published-form the basis of the present volume.
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