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Written at 13 Walbrook. 'Uncle tells me you haven't had my letters. I have written you daily Monday included'. The Boer War. 'There are symptoms that the country is cooling down. A long drawn campaign will tire out jingo enthusiasm. Doniol iawn stori sowldiwr Spion Kop gan Uncle Lloyd. It is an indication of what is going to happen in thousands of villages on the soldiers' return'.
Written at 13 Walbrook. The progress with the railways,
Written at 13 Walbrook. The Liberal candidature in Merioneth - 'It strikes me there is a good deal of intriguing going on in Merioneth. A section is fearful lest I be selected. So they take good care to assure everybody there will be no redistribution & even if there be Cvon Boros wont disappear. I don't want my name to be kept out of the candidates mentioned - as I want at best the chance to refuse. It will help me in the Cvon Boros when the time comes'. Business matters.
Written at 13 Walbrook. The East and West Wales Railway Company. Tom Ellis's health - 'I am very concerned about him. It is a thousand pities he couldn't be persuaded to give it up for a twelve month - pass that on the Veldt in South Africa. It would prolong his usefulness which I fear now may be cut short. It is very sad'. The Cymru Fydd dinner to be held on 1st March; 'As President for the year I take the Chair'. Is reading up for his education motion on 7th March. Family news. His amendments to Greaves's draft report on Welsh County Councils: 'He is full of it. It has disarmed him for an election. I feel certain he will not exert much influence against me'. Suggests meetings in the Carnarvon Boroughs during the Whitsun recess.
Written at 13 Walbrook. The Boer War - 'The Boer information from the seat of war turned out to be correct as usual. Butler has been compelled to retire. This means the inevitable fall of Ladysmith'. The Unionists were very depressed the previous night. Chamberlain was quite short tempered. A ghastly doubt is creeping toward them - that perhaps after all they may not be able to plant the British flag at Pretoria'. Is to speak on the war the following Wednesday.
Written at 13 Walbrook. The Ashton case,
Written at 13 Walbrook. The Ashton case. The Boer War - 'The butchery is horrible'. 'The depression here is patent to any man who walks the street. The fizz is out of the Jingo pop'.
Written at 13 Walbrook. Spoke for half an hour in the Commons the previous night attacking the government over the education estimates. Postponed a meeting at Cardiff for this purpose. Will work for Philip the following. Business matters.
Written at 13 Walbrook. Spent the previous afternoon playing golf: 'Come home late a new man & sketched the whole of my speech'. St. David's Day was a great success. The Liberation Society and the Nonconformist Council are issuing a special whip for Tuesday. Has agreed to be the guest at the annual dinner of the Newcastle Liberal Club. Business matters. Baker's Bill. Is to play golf with R. O. Davies.
Written at 13 Walbrook. Received the Northampton paper that day and will send it down,
Written at 13 Walbrook. Margaret and the children have left. Family news. Cardiff has declared for the Convention - 'Never expected it'.
Written at 13 Walbrook. Legal matters. Family news,
Written at 13 Walbrook. Legal cases. A city firm has suggested amalgamation: 'I am not personally well disposed to the idea. They are a very old firm & have good clients. ... But by keeping at it we'll have as good a business as they'. No important news from South Africa.
Written at 13 Walbrook. Is working at the office to release time for a general election campaign. Business matters. 'My holiday depends on dissolution. If Pretoria is entered within the next fortnight it is a certainty. ... For my part I would rather have done with it. Unless a very strong man is brought out by the Tories I shall win. I have a good case on the score of local services'. A meeting to discuss the Pwllheli harbour. Is 'apprehensive of a general election before the difficulty with the Local Govt Bd has been completely surmounted'.
Written at 13 Walbrook. Is to meet Tom Ellis for lunch at Palace Mansions and then is off to play golf. The Pwllheli case was unsatisfactory - 'But no use allowing these things to worry one'.
Written at 13 Walbrook. Is presiding that afternoon at the meeting of the Baptist Total Abstinence Society at Stockwell Orphanage. Failed to attend the Harcourt wedding to which he had been invited. His social engagements are 'in [a] state of utmost confusion'.
Written at 13 Walbrook. Is leaving for Halifax. The speech has been fully written up. Was fully preoccupied the previous day with the general manager and chief engineer of the Great Western Railway Company. Has not yet sent the letter to Ellis.
Written at 13 Walbrook. His Newcastle speech. Is to speak to the local Liberal Association at Northampton Town Hall that evening. Is now going to attend the Board Meeting of Mintoscope.
Written at 13 Walbrook. His meetings - 'I refuse no end of them but sometimes I can't without appearing churlish'. Has been begged to go to Leicester by Henry Broadhurst, but refused. Has travelled all night to make an appointment on the East and West Railway. Family news.
Written at 13 Walbrook. Has been to see Sir Hugh Owen who was 'exceedingly nice & obliging'. Family news. The Dorothea Quarry business.