After returning home, Masefield was invited to the United States on a lecture tour. Although the tour�s initial purpose was for Masefield to lecture on English Literature, especially on Chaucer and Shakespeare as he was becoming known as an expert on these, a secondary purpose for Masefield was to collect information on the mood and views of the Americans regarding the war in Europe. He spent approximately 3 months in the U.S., travelling throughout the east and mid west, lecturing, and meeting with various American people. For the most part, he was received very well, and Masefield desired to find ways to strengthen U.S. - British relations. When he returned back to England, he submitted a report to the British Foreign Office, and suggested that he be allowed to write a book about the failure of the allied efforts in the Dardanelles, which possibly could be used in the US in order to counter what he thought was German propoganda there. As a result, Masefield wrote �Gallipoli�, aided with permission to view many of the military documents and diaries, although most were still censored by military authorities. This work was a huge success and there is no doubt that the style Masefield used to write it went along way in encouraging the British people, and lifting them somewhat from the huge disappointment they had felt as a result of the Allied losses in the Dardanelles.