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and beautifully dressed, but she frightened him with her white hair and black dress. He must be like his great uncle [[Rothe?]] who nearly went into convulsions when a baby on seeing his grandmother remove her [["front?"]].& appear in her white hair. Some children do notice such things & others see nothing.  I have been recommending your "Chauffeur" as he told me he could have a machine & take tourists, but he had left town & wrote polite notes explaining that he had no machine for the moment.  All the stranded Americans are touring about France waiting for ships to take them home, the [[neah?]] [[room?]] in the [[Tarrie?]] put a lot of them out. 

I think you were very wise to keep Alexander on his own cows milk and not run any more risks, if you come over in the spring he will be on some food, that will be easier to manage.

Tell Rob that I had a letter from M. Dreyfus, full of admiration for Roosevelt & his successful peace meetings, or rather his successful interventions.  M. Dreyfus told me to tell Rob that if he could be of any use to him