Note 721 — Chapter XII
Reading edition
Quoted in Lee, II, 344. See also a letter from John Hay, who was then in London, to Henry Adams, June 7, 1905, quoted in Thayer, II, 405; Bertie to Lansdowne, June 10, 1905, B.D., III, 78, No. 96. Lansdowne’s reaction is expressed in Newton, p. 341.