desk-writing

Updated: July 19, 2026

All through his Ambassadorship he seemed hardly contented unless he had a pen in his hand. As his secretaries would glance into his room, there they would see the Ambassador bending over his desk-writing, writing, eternally writing; sometimes he would call them in, and read what he had written, never hesitating to tear up the paper if their unfavourable criticisms seemed to him well taken.

Burton Jesse Hendrick - The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II