New-York tribune., 1922-11-02
'ThonnasN n. Page.
Ex-U. s. Envoy,
Dies Of Stroke
Former Ambassador 10
Italy, Walking in Garden
in Virginia Home, Suc-
cunbs to Heart Disease
In Good Health Last Week
Served Country Abroad Dur
ing War; Handled Trnpor-
taaai Diplomatic Affairs

RICHMOND, Va, Nov. 1.---Thon,as
Nelson Page, formerly United States
Ambassador to italy and noted author.
CRED OF heart disease this afternoon at
ms ancestral home, Oakland, where he
was boTn, near Beaver Dam, in Han
over County. He was walking in the
garden with his sister -in-law, Mrs.
Roswell Page, when he collapsed. He
was carried into the house and medical
ala was summoned, but he died within
few minutes. He was sixty-nine
years old.
Mr.. Page apparently had been in ex-
been In Washington and in Maryland,
where he participated in the political
| campaign, speaking in advocacy of the
candidacy for the United States Senate
Of HIS cousin, William Cabell Bruce.
| He had gone to the ancestral home,
now occupied by his brother, to spend
the winter, except for occasional visits
to Washington, and had announced that
he. would soon begin the preparation Of
Q book dealing with his experiences as
Ambassador to Italy.
War Ambassador to Italy
| Mr.. Page was appointed Ambassador
to Italy in June, 1913, and continued
in that capacity until August 1919,
his service covering critical period
| in observation-disclosures relations. More
than one of the important diplomatic
notes passing between the United
States and the Allied governments
| went through his hands.
| In the summer of 1919 he returned
to Washington to confer with officials
concerning details Of peace and recon
! struction in Europe and indicated that
4 because Of advancing years he would
be glad to lay down the official burden
ne had carried throughout the war.
He placed before President Wilson at
long White House conference a final
report on conditions in Europe and
soon thereafter left the service of
the government.
Made Home in Capital
| He made his home in WASHINGTON
but recently sold his house, with the
intention of spending most of his time
in Virginia. /.
Thomas Nelson Page, man of letters
and diplomat, came Of one of the his
toric families of the Old Dominion
one of his ancestors being the close
friend of Thomas Jefferson and st
George Tucker. He was the son OF
Major John and Elizabeth Burwell
| (Nelson) Page, and was born at Oak.
land Plantation, Hanover County, va.
1 April %, 1853. His family formerly
possessed ample means, but was i'm.
poverished by the Civil War Yet hs
had the advantage of education a,
Washington and Lee University ana
the University of Virginia's law schoo
and was graduated from the latter in
1874. For a number of years he prac
tised law at Richmond, Va, with much
success, and then turned his attention
TO literature
His first published story, tIn Ok
/ Virginia" appeared in 1887, and wa,
| followed by "Two Little Confederates'
| and other tales of war times. which
| were received with much favor ia. tha
| North as well as in the South; and by
the time he retired from law practice
to devote himself to letters, in 1898
he was regarded as one of the fore
most authors Of his time in the South
Among his best known works-i1is
"Marse Chan" Social Life in Old Wiz
| ginia,' Robert z. Lee, Man and Sol
| dier' and "The Coast of Bohemia" a
volume of poems.
Books Free From Rancor
His writings, both fiction and serious
works, were nearly all about the South
and its social and racial problems and
the Civil War, but they were free from
rancor, prejudice or sectional bias, and
were marked with exceptional literary
talent. easily winning an honorable
place in standard and permanent Amer
lean literature, and also gaining much