At the end of last week the King wrote to
Lord Crewe expressing the "intense gratification" which his Majesty and the Queen had experienced in their visit to the Potteries. " Throughout our journeys, covering upwards of 120 miles," says the letter, "we have received outward proofs of affec- tion and goodwill, while every town and village was tastefully decorated, and there was hardly a house which had not marked: the occasion by some individual display." The King then records in detail the more vivid memories that remain from his visit. He particularly mentions the arrangements made for the children : " We were delighted that ample arrangements bad been made for the children to take part in the festivities ; every heart must have been touched by the effect of the voices of those thousands of little ones that greeted us in Hanley Park on Tuesday." Such touches as this—marks of genuine thoughtfulness and kindliness—inform the whole letter. The King will soon not only know the kingdom better by actual contact than any living English- man, but will have given personal proof of his understanding of and sympathy with the needs of the various parts.
