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Written at Ormond House. Goes to Wrexham at 2.10 'C.B. is buckling up in earnest'. 'I see the Libl. Imps. are congregating around Rosebery at Chesterfield Monday next like a lot of cats around the catsmeat tray. They are all looking forward to getting some scrag thrown them when he gets in'.
Written at Ormond House. Family news. Goes to Birkenhead on Thursday to lecture on 'Imperialism' to the Ruskin Society - 'Telir i mi am y job hono'. Is at Wandsworth that evening and Caernarfon on Friday.
Written at Ormond House. Encloses a letter from Morian - 'The old boy wrote the first newspaper description ever penned of me. It was when I spoke with Davitt at Festiniog - 18 years ago! So he takes a deep interest in me'.
Written at Ormond House. Druan o Salisbury. Hen wr crynedig yn ceisio canu gwagedd. Y mae Rosebery ei siawns os ydyw digon craff iw chymeryd'. Said to Rosebery four or five months ago, 'The Liberal statesman who comes in to continue the war will ... ruin himself'.
Written at Ormond House. Discusses a death - 'How imperceptibly & unstrenuously life merges into death - as the day shades into the night'. Cannot leave with Margaret that evening because of the Lunn business: 'He is off tomorrow to America & the money is not all in'.
Written at Ormond House. Cannot attend the lecture. Goes to Swansea on Wednesday. 'What an exposure of Osmond! He is a dau wynebog chap. A thoroughly poor creature'.
Written at Ormond House. 'Agree with Uncle Lloyd that D.N. gave too much notice to Perks'. Has gone through the figures of the last six months with Edwards - 'Improvement shown far exceeding our anticipations. Much better than last year under old Company. ... Great financial success. [Edwards] asked only for 3 years to pull it round & the progress already made in what must be the worst year is marvellous'. Goes to Derby the next day.
Written at Ormiston, Belfast. The success of the previous day's meetings, especially the previous night's at the Great Ulster Hall. The attempt to incite a riot was a failure. 'Had there been trouble the Cabinet would have said, "We told you so". Now it is my turn to crow over them. They are a set of funks. Morley & Birrell were in a great panic'. Is staying with Lord Pirrie, the great Belfast shipbuilder, and is to visit his works. Has a deputation on Board of Trade business that afternoon and goes to London that night.
Written at Office. Is very busy and will write again that night,
Written at Nythfa, Brecon. The success of the meeting,
Written at Nurnberg. The homeward journey. Hopes to be in London on Saturday. 'Wythnos i ddoe ydyw'r llythyr diweddaf derbyniais oddiwrthych yn [sic] Nghricieth. You are all wretched correspondents - even Uncle Lloyd hasn't been up to his usual mark'. The newspaper cuttings. Mutilated.
Written at North British Station Hotel, Glasgow. Has just disposed of the Suffragists, 'but they were not the wild ones so my interview with them was quite satisfactory'. Declined an invitation from the Lord Provost to attend a meeting of the Corporation that afternoon. There is a leading article in the Glasgow Herald discussing his prospects of becoming leader of the Liberal Party.
Written at Normal College, Bangor. Robert Thomas, shipowner, wishes to receive a detailed bill. The meeting at Waenfawr was a 'splendid success'.
Written at No 2 Leaside, Rhosddu Road, Wrexham. Moss has begged him not to go to Conway. Has five meetings the next day. 'They want me everywhere. Mewn mwy o demand na'r un ohonynt'. 'Ellis Griffith came down yesterday & got snubbed right & left. Neb yn gofyn beth oedd o dda. Went off in high dudgeon'. The report in the Daily Chronicle about his speech at Wrexham on Friday.
Written at National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, S.W., 'Yn y trên o Rhyl i Gamarvon.' Outlines his discussions with the Bishop of St Asaph - '... got on very well as far as we went'. 'One crucial point is an alternative form'. St Asaph is to have discussions with the other bishops. 'I send you copy of the Memorandum we both inserted in our respective note Books. We were dealing only with Church Schools ... & not with Board Schools'. Incomplete.
Written at National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, S.W., 'Yn y tren'. Is on the way to Tredegar. The 'curious letter of P.J.'s'. Legal matters. 'Don't leave this letter hanging about the office for boys to see'.
Written at National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, S.W., 'Yn y tren.' Is on his way to play golf. Is to stay in Brighton that night.
Written at National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, S.W. 'Yn y trên'. The success of his Greenock meeting the previous night: 'Packed same hall as Chamberlain just as crowded & more enthusiastic'. Would like news of the revival.
Written at National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, S.W. 'Yn y trên.' The campaign in Carmarthenshire 'a colossal success. The Conference was one of the weightiest as well as one of the most enthusiastic ever held in S Wales. ... Cefais dderbyniad a hwyl anarferol'. Professor Jones's interruption was 'a Godsend to us'. The previous night's meeting at Whitland: 'Abel Thomas made a very strong speech for my policy. Ditto Brynmor'.
Written at National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, S.W. 'Y mae'r pennaethiaid yn ymgynghori ynghyd'. They cannot agree; all this is top secret. 'Y mae anghydfod yn eu mysg yn nghylch yr angenrheidrwydd i C[ampbell] B[annerman] fyned i Dy yr Arglwyddi rhag y blaen ac i Asquith arwain y Ty'. Nothing has happened as yet. It is expected that he will be appointed to the Local Government Board - 'Fel y gwyddost dyna fy newisiad. Y mae arnaf ofn yr Home Office gan mai ar y swyddfa honno y dibyna droi allan y milwyr i saethu tyrfaoedd aflonydd dyweder o strikers neu unemployed'.