Wednesday, November 30th, 1898
In spite of the fact that it was desired to submit the tentative text of the entire treaty to the Commission this morning and discuss… Read More »Wednesday, November 30th, 1898
Whitelaw Reid
Tuesday, November 29th, 1898
[There was] long discussion over preparing [the] draft for [a] complete treaty to be presented now at [the] next meeting. Moore furnished [a] synopsis of… Read More »Tuesday, November 29th, 1898
Monday, November 28th, 1898
Commissioners all a little late coming down. Finally started with Frye, Day, and Gray in carriage—Davis, who has uniformly gone with me, not having appeared.… Read More »Monday, November 28th, 1898
Saturday, November 26th, 1898
Frye, Day, and Moore appeared about the usual hour. As the latter two came in, Frye and I were engaged in a little talk about… Read More »Saturday, November 26th, 1898
Friday, November 25th, 1898
The first Commissioners [to arrive] this morning were full of pleasant talk about their enjoyment of the Thanksgiving festivities. One or two spoke of slight… Read More »Friday, November 25th, 1898
Sunday, November 20th, [1898]
[I received some] good letters from home, and a supply of papers, with no particularly bad news. [But] they gave [me] a feeling of loneliness… Read More »Sunday, November 20th, [1898]
Saturday, November 19th, 1898
. . . [I] spent the morning dictating some new points on the Spanish paper and revising some others, Senator Davis seemed particularly interested in… Read More »Saturday, November 19th, 1898
Friday, November 18th, 1898
No trouble at all in breathing; ten hours’ sleep; and an almost entire disappearance this morning of asthmatic symptoms, . . . After we got… Read More »Friday, November 18th, 1898
Thursday, November 17th, 1898
Was awakened in the night by an increasing oppression in breathing, and before morning found myself in an old fashioned asthmatic spasm, the first real… Read More »Thursday, November 17th, 1898