Yours very truly,
ARGYLL.
To Mr. T. Norton Longman
Foxholes, April 20th.—Much obliged to you for the Beaconsfield book, [Footnote: The Beaconsfield Birthday-Book.] which is very pretty. I hope you will sell as many as there are bunches of primroses in Covent Garden Market. The extent of Lord Beaconsfield's popularity is really curious. Yet this is the man whom Gladstone hunted to death and called a fiend!!
And the Journal for the summer runs:—
At Foxholes all May.
June 26th.—Marriage of Hallam Tennyson and Miss Boyle in Henry VII.'s Chapel.
July 12th.—Dinner at Sir Henry Maine's. The Actons, Lindleys, Evelyn Barings, Brookfield, Venables—interesting party.
16th.—Duchess of Argyll's garden party.
17th.—The great Canadian case between the Provinces of Ontario and Manitoba was argued for six days before the Judicial Committee.