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Invites S. to a party on July 11; hopes to invite him to a 'rural "disjune"' at her country home (Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire); provides map; enjoyed recent party at Nassau William Senior's home.

Sat. 2nd [May] suits S.; goes to Brussels on the 9th; has no chance of '... hearing the [Jenny] Lind'; describes stay at Castle Hill; 'no stars & only one Leonulus, [Edwin] Chadwick.' Names guests; spent considerable time looking '... into cottages and inspecting drains.' 'Lord Fortescue, whose political tact I esteem, thinks that Peel means to keep in if he can & that the Tories will repent & keep him in. I expressed my approbation of this result. To which Lord F & his son answered that their only objection to Peel was his Chartism. That his principle was to tax the rich & flatter the poor & yield everything to agitation - nothing to reason - a line of conduct leading they think straight to revolution. They prefer therefore the slower pace of Lord John [Russell]. Whately writes to me on the same sense.' Comments on his horse 'Dragon.'.

Describes journey to Italy; 'This is the most remarkable town that I ever was in.' Has visited Mdme. Arconati and talked to [Alessandro Francisco Tommaso Antonio] Manzoni; '... we talked of course (for that has been the case throughout our tour) nothing but English & Irish politics. Everybody in Italy seems to think that we have given the death blow to protection. I shall bring back with me a few of the liberal pamphlets which the Government has allowed to be printed &, some of them, sold. The bulk of the aristocracy is said to be liberal. The King is a shuttlecock, tossed between the Jesuit & Austrian party on one side & the liberal & Italian party on the other. His cabinet is a sample of his mind, consisting of hostile elements.' Feels liberal element is 'preponderant' and railroads will help. Genoa and Piedmont reconciled; expects a constitution in 20 years. Prandi's 'companies are schools of self government'; describes the aristocracy. Copy attached.

Will visit Antwerp tomorrow and return to London on Monday; pleased with tour; comments on society in northern Italy; '...the bulk of the young nobles have no career. They devote themselves therefore to love making'; feels sorry for Austria, '... the people are in a chronic conspiracy against her...'. Comments on expected civil war in Switzerland; sees that his article has appeared in the Edinburgh [Review], '... but the part of Hamlet [? Peel] left out. My general views of Irish politics were not too strong for Lord Lansdowne's stomach, but others it seems had weaker digestions. I have not read Mill on [George] Grote.'. Copy attached.

Has discussed the story of Jenny [Lind] with Lord Liverpool, '... authorising him to tell the Queen Mrs Stanley's part in it.' Ref. to [Claudius] Harris; Lind should not write to the Queen but to G. Anson; stayed at Richmond with Lansdowne who commented on govt's desperate efforts to pass the navigation laws; has received a letter from Michel Chevalier whom S. would like recipient to meet: quotes from letter. Comment in margin: 'Lord L. does not think that the Court commands more than 7 or 8 votes.'.

Pleased to read proofs of Nassau William Senior's article on Lamartine; comments at length on the situation in France and Italy.

Staying with the Ashburtons and Miss E. Baring; description of house and estate; the Austins to arrive next week; has received lectures from Mrs Sydney [? Smith]; Ashburtons wish to meet recipient.

Plans for his tour; has heard from Tocqueville. 'As we recede from the centres of civilization. London & Paris, the people get every 100 miles more & more childish.' Sir Frederic[k] Adam would like to meet Grote; desires to know how to meet Col. [William] Moore at Rome; critical of Austrians, Neapolitans & Italians. 'We are all puzzled here by Lord John Russell's letter. I explain it as a claptrap...'. '... Palmerston is de-ified. I suspect that I pass for a Tory as I do not join in the canonization.'.

Pleased to have missed meeting of the 'Poor Law adepts'; pokes fun at Chadwick and Twisleton; Visit of 'my Swedish dragoon' [Jenny Lind]; future plans; family news. See also nos C410 and C434.

Accepts dinner invitation.

Re his son's [Nassau J. Senior] matriculation; does not wish him to enter Oxford until next year - too immature; asks advice on this; hopes to visit recipient on May 16 or 17.

Ref. to conversation at Madame Bunsen's re Irish RC clergy; has papers of use to S. but cannot find them; Russell and Palmerston's views.

Encloses passages re RC glebes and a paper by Colonel Burgoyne, Chief Commissioner of the Boards of Works in Ireland; also sends notes from evidence taken before the Irish committee on the state of Ireland; refs. to Lansdowne and O'Connell; suggests comparison between Ireland and Prussia.

Returns papers and makes some observations on them; writer '... exceedingly struck with your sketch of O'Connell.' Relates story of Dr O'Tinan of Killaloe.

Has read over Nassau William Senior's 'valuable' MS on Ireland; agrees that Whig party is the only party which will attempt to cure problem, but S. '... must avoid any unnecessary expression capable of giving offence to either O'C[onnell] or the Priests.' Explains why; Edinburgh Review should avoid abusing Ireland. 'Confidential'.

Note: These letters are typewritten copies by Mrs Strachey from the correspondence of Hekekyan Bey, BM MSS 37,462-37,463.

Wishes to correct story that Artin [recte Artim] Bey had suggested to S. that Egypt should be ruled by an Egyptian government; this not the case; hopes Viceroy will understand error; has passed on recipient's papers to Mr [Leonard] Horner.

Letter of introduction for Mr Cooke, brother of Sir Wm. Cooke of Cautley.