Ffeil 996. - Written at Ormond House. The shares in the Genedl. The Boer War; the alarmist telegram in the Daily Express. Fy ...,

Written at Ormond House. The shares in the Genedl. The Boer War; the alarmist telegram in the Daily Express. Fy marn i ydyw y bydd peth fel hyn yn mynd ymlaen yn y Transvaal flwyddyn i heddyw. My estimate at the beginning of the war as you may remember was April 1901. I think I rather underestimated the difficulties considerably in fact. 'Lief [Jones] whilst privately despising the leaders of the Welsh party with true Jonesian conceit - these Jones's Brynmor, Viriamu & Lief are the quintessence of self-satisfaction - did not object to enlist support by pretending that we sympathised with him'.