Although I wouldn't cross an ocean again for the price of the ship that carried me, I am glad to do it for an Oxford degree.
- letter to Charles Frederic Moberly Bell, May 3, 1907

After seeing the Oxford pageant file by the grand stand, picture after picture, splendor after splendor, three thousand five hundred strong, the most moving and beautiful and impressive and historically-instructive show conceivable, you are not to think I would miss the London pageant of next year, with its shining host of 15,000 historical English men and women dug from the misty books of all the vanished ages and marching in the light of the sun - all alive, and looking just as they were used to look! Mr. Lascelles spent yesterday here on the farm, and told me all about it. I shall be in the middle of my 75th year then, and interested in pageants for personal and prospective reasons.
- letter to Henniker-Heaton, Jan. 18, 1909