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Outlining the position as regards the Chairmanship of the LCC and the necessity to avoid a contest between Lord Ripon and Lubbock, who would be supported by the Conservatives and a minority of the Liberals.
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Concerning his convalescence.
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Family affairs and arrangements for visiting.
Letter from Lord Rosebery (dictated),
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Thanking him for his kind note and refers to his being free from anxiety, though the recovery must be slow and tedious.
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Thanking him for replying to 597; says that he was glad to have missed the visit to Tipperary.
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Thanking him for congratulations [on his marriage?].
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In reply to a letter of sympathy on the death of his wife.
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Unable to accept an invitation to dinner.
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Suggesting that the Bishops' own figures, estimating that Nonconformists had the adherence unquestionably equal to 48% of the estimated population, would prove that equally genuine Church people would constitute a very modest percentage; proves the point by reference to the few seats gained in Wales by Church adherents and believes also that the Bishops' estimate of population was too high.
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Concerning the qualifications of H. Goodhart and the prospects of his getting a chair at Edinburgh University.
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Is pleased to hear that her husband had made a favourable impression in Wales.
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Commenting on a pamphlet on the condition of Roumanians in Hungary.
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Concerning the conduct of Austria-Hungary towards the nationalist minorities in the Hapsburg Empire.
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Protesting against an act [Glebe Lands Act, 1888] of Lord Salisbury, under which 100 acres of Wolton glebe were to be sold, as was the case in Abinger, with the sole purpose of increasing the income of two worthless parsons, of rounding off a squire's estate and of giving a building site or two to rich men, thereby alienating national land which might be needed for national and municipal circumstances; considers it an improvident act, the worse because it was plastered over with tha pretence of creating. Allotments for the poor.
Letter from Sir W. V. Harcourt,
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Thanking him for news of the death [of Lord Armstrong?].
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Referring to a letter sent to Stanmore from Gladstone apropos the publication of certain letters from him to Lord Aberdeen, Stanmore's father, in which he expressed the view that no 'real and final' memoir could be published for many years; he believed that the fuller a provisional work was, the more it would injure a subsequent one, and was it not manifest that papers in the custody of a family should be reserved for the 'real' biography; also a memorandum (1617a) in the hand of Rendel concerning the said letter, dated 18 July 1891, ending with 'I do not think memoirs of me, real or final, can probably be published until many years after my death'.
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As to the possibility of the writer's attendance at a meeting in Pontypridd.
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Regrets his inability to be at the Pontypridd meeting, but affirms his strong support of the Disestablishment Campaign Committee.
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Holiday plans; mentions that he had spent a few days at Malwood, where he had found his host in excellent spirits.
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Plans for accompanying Gladstone to Biarritz.