R. Lowe.”
This was followed on February 10th by a letter from Mr. Stansfeld:
“Dear Miss Jex-Blake,
The Conservatives will certainly come in and for a long time. I should have thought that Russell Gurney might not improbably now be placed upon the Bench. I don’t suppose that a political appointment would suit him; unless it were that of Speaker and I have not heard his name mentioned for it.
I think you can’t do better than ask him, saying at the same time that you cannot but see that the coming political change may make it out of his power to comply.
It is all very extraordinary and mortifying.
Yours truly,
J. Stansfeld.”
The suggested letter was roughly drafted forthwith:
“To Russell Gurney.