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this summer to intercede with Queen Victoria for the Armenians.
I thought of it, but the plan seemed to me chimerical and futile.
I still have them and the Cretans greatly at heart, but I don't think I could do any good in the way just mentioned.
I should have been glad to make a great sacrifice for these persecuted people, but common sense must be adhered to, in all circumstances. ...
To the same
241 Beacon Street, April 18, 1896.
... If you go to Russia, be careful to go as Mrs. John Elliott, not as Maud Howe Elliott.
Your name is probably known there as one of the friends of “Free Russia,” and you might be subjected to some annoyance in consequence.
You had better make acquaintance with our minister, whoever he may be. The Russians seem now to have joined hands with the Turks.
If the American missionaries can only be got rid of, Russia, it is said, will take Armenia under her so-called protection, and will compel all Christians to join the Greek Church.
There is so much spying in Russia that you will have to be very careful what you talk about.
I rather hope you will not go, for a dynamite country is especially dangerous in times of great public excitement, which the time of the coronation cannot fail to be. ...“April 20. F. J. Garrison called and made me an offer, on the part of Houghton, Mifflin & Company, that they should publish my ‘Reminiscences.’ ... I ”
