Herculaneum, past, present & future . d,and the committees—at least as concerned England—couldnot well be started until there was some guarantee of financialsupport. It seemed clear that the United States—where morethan in any other country a tradition exists among the possessorsof great wealth to give active support to educational and scientificenterprises—was the centre whence such guarantee of financialsupport would be most readily forthcoming. A letter receivedfrom my friend, the late Mr. John Hay,^ moreover, assuredme that President Roosevelt would prospectively consent totake the moral l
Herculaneum, past, present & future . d,and the committees—at least as concerned England—couldnot well be started until there was some guarantee of financialsupport. It seemed clear that the United States—where morethan in any other country a tradition exists among the possessorsof great wealth to give active support to educational and scientificenterprises—was the centre whence such guarantee of financialsupport would be most readily forthcoming. A letter receivedfrom my friend, the late Mr. John Hay,^ moreover, assuredme that President Roosevelt would prospectively consent totake the moral leadership in that country ; while my friendsinformed me of good prospects of help among the prominentindividuals who were able to assist. But my academic dutiesand other pressing work kept me tied to England, and therewas no chance of undertaking a journey to the United Statestill the Christmas holidays. I therefore turned to Germanyand France. It was not till the end of June, when my academic work 1 Appendix I. ^ Appendix CO = wNZ o«;ca I t-c ; INTRODUCTION 37 was over, that I was able to go to France. M. Cambon, theFrench Ambassador in London, and my friend and formercolleague, M. Homolle, had smoothed the way, the formerhaving written to the Minister of Public Instruction, , while the latter had prepared my archaeologicalcolleagues in Paris to give a favourable reception to thescheme. I arrived in Paris on June 30. At a meeting of theInstitute on the following day I had the pleasure of meeting,and of receiving the grateful and enthusiastic support of, theveteran scholar, Gaston Boissier ; while at a luncheon givenby M. Homolle, at which Messieurs Perrot, Heuzey, theDue de Loubat, and Messieurs Collignon, Bayet, and Pottierwere present, I was invited to lay my whole scheme beforemy colleagues, who each and all gave their unqualifiedsupport. In the evening, at a dinner at M. Georges Perrots,the same approval was confirmed by other colleagues. At thes
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