Kipling to FND. Bateman's. Comments on German propaganda, U. S. forces. Praise of U. S. fleet. Sympathy expressed to FND: "There is nothing left in sorrow but work; and the harder the better."

[Neltje De Graff Doubleday, FND's first wife, died on 21 February 1918. FND subsequently married, on 27 November 1918, Florence Van Wyck.]