By the trail of
colored photographs she followed his triumphal march. Rome knew the
president-elect in early June; Naples, Florence, Milan, Venice in the
same period. He investigated, presumably, the public school systems of
Geneva and Berlin; the higher education drew him through the chateau
country of France; for three weeks the head-waiters of Paris (in the
pedagogical district) were familiar with the clink of his coin; and
August's first youth was gone before he was in London with the lake
region a tramped road behind him.
From the latter neighborhood (picture: Rydal Mount) he wrote Sharlee as
follows:
Sailing on the 21st, after the most glorious trip in history. Never
so full of energy and enthusiasm. Running over with the most
beautiful plans.
The exact nature of these plans the writer did not indicate, but
Sharlee's mother, who always got down to breakfast first and read all
the postals as they came, explained that the reference was evidently to
Blames College. West, however, did not sail on the 21st, even though
that date was some days behind his original intentions.
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