April 15th, 1892.
(Re Hilly Fields?)
To Miranda.
You ask about the House of Commons, My evidence went all right. I think I scored; but I felt from the first it was no use, and they considered that they could not go into the question on what I call its important grounds. Having passed the second reading, they could not alter the matter so much in principle. They only really heard me as to access to the Park for the poor, and a few other things. It was rather interesting to see the crowded Committee room, and the row of wigged lawyers, and the small Committee, and to hear the evidence and cross-examination.
April, 1892.
To Miranda.
We went to a wonderfully beautiful exhibition of pictures at Guildhall. There is a very beautiful Burne-Jones, “The Wheel of Fortune.” Of course Fortune is blind, but it is really grand. Also “Love among the Ruins”; very lovely—the woman’s face really so, and the colour exquisite.
I hope we may get the Bell St. freehold. It would be a great relief.
Larksfield,
August 12th, 1892.