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sent me an invitation to take tea at the Legation, have just returned from there. There were 12 or fifteen [[strikethrough]] there [[/strikethrough]] present, one lady the wife of the Minister to Holland, who is just leaving for there. (she was four months a [[crossed out]] [[?]] [[/crossed out]] prisoner in Germany at uprising of war).

The others were Military or Embassy people, and who do you suppose I found there Walter Damrosh [[Damrosch]]  

I had seen him in Paris where he had invited me to lunch, but could not go as I was leaving for Bruxelles, I did not expect to see him here, he had also seen the King, is arranging a series of concerts for next season in France & Belgium etc.

Mrs Whitlock is very charming, and of course 

Transcription Notes:
* Walter Damrosch - composer/conductor