The life of Joseph Hodges Choate as gathered chiefly from his letters . ink between man & the monkey, butwhich Prof. Lankester thinks is only a very low type ofman. The brain cavity is extremely flat & small. * * * Papa. American Embassy, London. .._ ,, 16 Decr. iooo. Dearest Mabel:— What a shock it was this morning to get a cable fromNew York announcing that our dear Beaman had justdied. I had heard of him constantly this winter as beingin remarkably good health and spirits, and so this suddennews was all the more appalling. I really dont knowwhat we shall do without him. I must have time to
The life of Joseph Hodges Choate as gathered chiefly from his letters . ink between man & the monkey, butwhich Prof. Lankester thinks is only a very low type ofman. The brain cavity is extremely flat & small. * * * Papa. American Embassy, London. .._ ,, 16 Decr. iooo. Dearest Mabel:— What a shock it was this morning to get a cable fromNew York announcing that our dear Beaman had justdied. I had heard of him constantly this winter as beingin remarkably good health and spirits, and so this suddennews was all the more appalling. I really dont knowwhat we shall do without him. I must have time to immediately telegraphed Mama and already have heranswer. To think of his being taken, and Mr. Evartsleft, who has been trying to die now for four years. * * * I enclose a letter from George Von L. Meyer, our newAmbassador to Italy enclosing Julian Ralphs accountand description of me at the Guildhall dinner which willprobably just suit you. * * * p » Queen Victoria died January 22, 1901. One looksfor Mr. Choates reaction on that event, but there are. CHARLES C. BEAMAX, JOSEPH H. CHOATE, AXD HENRY E. HOWLAXD. IN ENGLAND AS AMBASSADOR 187 no available letters about it. Such as he wrote—and hemust have written them—were doubtless to friends inEngland, and the great disturbance of the war, and allthat has followed it, have made English letters verydifficult of access. On January 30 he wrote to SecretaryHay: Private and confidential. Dear Colonel Hay: I have acknowledged in my despatch of today thePresidents special authorization which you cabled meto represent him at the Queens funeral—that I had im-mediately communicated it to the Foreign Office and wasawaiting Lord Lansdownes answer. I shall of coursego to Windsor to the funeral, and shall probably go inthe London procession in a state carriage as Mr. Reiddid at the Jubilee. This procession is as I understandto be a strictly military one, and although many of thespecial envoys, most of whom are Royalties and great
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