An eminent M.P. has undertaken to bring in an Enabling Bill to enable Universities to educate and graduate women on the same terms as men, and I have just got a letter asking me to send up a draft of such Bill. As you are the best authority on such matters I should like to see you at once about it, and should be extremely glad if you could sketch out a draft beforehand, as time is of the greatest moment.
Could I see you if I called between 12.30 and 1 p.m.?
Yrs. truly,
S. Jex-Blake.”
The Draft Bill seems to have been posted that afternoon, and the following day another telegram arrived:
“March 25th. Rt. Hon. Stansfeld, London, to Miss Jex-Blake, 15 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh.
I have seen Mr. Cowper Temple and we advise you to come and see him.”
So of course S. J.-B. travelled up to London next day.
[Diary] “March 26th. Summoned up to London about Cowper Temple’s Bill. He very kind, plenty of good will.... Stansfeld admirable. Gurney do., only from health inactive. Lowe, Gallio-like.”
A day or two later S. J.-B. dined with the Cowper Temples and details were threshed out.