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Re recipients attempts to meet Lady Holland; writer is 'splendidly lodged' in Rome; quotes from letter of Lord Lansdowne (Feb. 17) re 'religious storm' over Roman Catholicism in England. 'Still with the exception of a few contemptible instances, the whole discussion has been carried on in a far more tolerant tone than would have been the case half a century ago.'.

Has sent Sorrento and Paris journals to Mrs Grote; personal news [omitted from published edition]. 'Palmerston is rising with us. We think that he has done nothing very monstrous for some time unless the sending Gladstone's pamphlet about be so considered.'. Published.

The will of Mdme. de Tocqueville's aunt; suggests specific wording as recipient cannot hold land in England but his wife can; comments on Louis Napoleon; news of Belguim from Van de Weyer; news of Prussia from Mr Banfield and of Thiers and Duvergier d'Hauranne; critical of works of Fiquelmont; news of articles in Edinburgh Review.; Lord Normanby not to return to Paris '... in compliance with the President's wishes.' Gladstone's pamphlet on Naples ' ... is said to demolish King Ferdinand.'. Postscript: News from Schwartzenberg on Prussia. 'Look at article on the personal character of L[ouis] N[apoleon] in the Times of Monday. It is by [Henry] Reeve - much built out of my conversation & Guizot's letters.'. Published.

Sir Henry Ellis has letters for recipient. 'It is difficult to suppose that our new ministry is serious. [Spencer Horace] Walpole was with great difficulty persuaded to take the Home Secretaryship - I leave, he said, my business at the bar, & what will become of me 6 months hence when we got out? They told him however that they cd not do without him. The Duke of Northumberland is a naval man & a man of literature & knowledge. He will not make a bad first Lord of the Admiralty. [Edward Burtenshaw] Sugden will be a first rate Chancellor, & [John Charles] Herries respectable at the Board of Control - & I dare say that Lord Salisbury will not expose himself as Privy Seal. But to have the budget; which requires knowledge & invention in such hands as Lord Derby & D'Israeli, who know nothing of real business & nothing of finance - to have an ignoramus like Lord Lonsdale at the head of public instruction, a mere county Gentleman, like Packington [recte, John Somerset Pakington], to preside over the Colonies & Lord Malm[e]sbury, who never opened a despatch, or did any thing, except publishing that most amusing but most indiscreet book about his grandfather, at the foreign office wd be ludicrous if the matter were not too serious for laughter. It is now said that they do not dissolve till the summer -In that case I doubt their getting a working majority, for the next three months will exhibit their incompetence. It is one comfort that we are free from Palmerston at the foreign office. The Queen will not allow him to return thither, & not easily readmit him to the Cabinet. [?Martin] Nadaud is here - in great part I have obtained work for him at 5s a day as a mason - & hope to do better for him - He is said to be a skilful respectable ouvrier. Many inquiries about you but I am forced to answer that I have not heard from Paris since I left it.' Lord Lansdowne to leave politics.

Published.

Praises recipient's book; comments on problems of constitutional govt. 'I have just been commenting on a despotism of a kind rare in Europe, that of the people. I have republished my article on Uncle Tom with the passages which [Henry] Reeve struck out reinserted, - I have added (Charles] Sumner's speech against the atrocities in Kansas, & a notice of the events which followed that speech. I own that I see, not without pleasure the chasm widening between the north & the south. America has now the strength of a tyrant & the folly & unscrupulousness of a child. Cut into half a dozen states she, or rather they, wd be subject to the restraints which control the passions of European nations.' Is to visit Lord Aberdeen; relates of conversations between Thiers, Palmerston and Duc d'Aumale. Published.

Is returning to London for a short stay: 'I am curious to see the storm from on board.'.

Visit to America delayed; suffering from 'lumbar neuralgia'; outlines plans if he fails to visit America; comments on his conversations with Guizot and Mrs Austin; Lord John [Russell] expects to return to power soon: 'He is very anti-Palmerstonian & I think takes into disfavor [sic] Lord Clarendon, as under Palmerston's influence... He thinks-that Malm[e]sbury & D'Israeli are doing well, & praises much the subordinates of the Govt. Considering that no one believes Lord Derby to be wise, or D'Israeli to be either wise or honest, it is marvellous they get on as well as they do.' Forecasts bright future for Lord Stanley; believes that British should leave India. Published.

Pleased that Tocqueville's papers to remain in his hands; hopes for 'a real Italian confederation'; suspects motives of 'your great man' re Italy. 'The Lombards are so perverse that I should not be surprised at their calling in some foreign assistance a year or two hence to drive out the Piedmontese.' Writer would like a confederation of republics. 'Republican Government is very bad but despotic government seems to be much worse, & the only other pure form, the aristocratic one, cannot be created & does not seem likely to grow up.'.

Apologises for not writing. Is 'devoted to the Education Commission; explains problems of commission relating to religious differences and the fear of centralization; future plans; wishes to see Corcelle; hopes to visit Paris in March; family news.

Thanks recipient for 'sustaining and consoling' her: comments on elementary education in France; wishes to see a copy of recipient's correspondence with Tocqueville. 'Your last letter came to me opened, as the post could not break the seal, they tore a hole in the corner of the envelope, took it out and put it in again, I took out in the same way. I have no doubt but that your handwriting is known and watched at the Post Office in Paris it is necessary to be guarded. We are more in chains than ever.'.

Cannot visit Paris until end of April; hopes to see recipient on April 27.

Re article by Tocqueville which writer hopes to publish, if Beaumont agrees. Leaf missing.

The problems involving her aunt's will.

Hopes to visit recipient; will ask Beaumont to send volume of conversations to her.

Re translation of Tocqueville's works; Murray will not publish it but is negotiating instead with Macmillan; hopes to visit Paris; news of 'the lady whose escapade you mentioned.'.

Re publication; is to visit continent in August. Leaf missing.

Has sprained his ankle; news of Us investments; refers to other translations of Tocqueville's works; copyright problems Macmillan '... is more adventurous than Murray...'. Believes Murray is influenced by Reeve.