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Vancouver Sun, undated

A very pretty book for a Christmas present, it costs but one dollar, is “Walter H. Page’s Christmas Letter to His Grandson.” This charmingly printed brochure is issued by S. B. Gundy. It has a sketch of Walter H. Page, from a portrait by Laszlo [6498], and an introductory note by Burton J. Hendrick.

This letter was written Christmas 1915, by Walter H. Page while he was Ambassador at the Court of St. James. Addressed to his infant grandson and namesake, it contains in its whimsical lines a philosophy of life which could be felt and expressed only by a man possessed of greatness of soul and nobility of character. It will remain as one of the truly exquisite and touching epistolary passages in the English language.

MD

09/11/2007