The following correspondence also passed at this time between him and Sir Stafford Northcote:—
Sir Stafford Northcote to Lord Randolph Churchill.
Private.
30 St. James’s Place, S.W.: July 10, 1884.
Dear Lord Randolph,—Will you be able to give me a few minutes’ conversation after Mr. Gladstone has made his statement to-night?
We ought, I think, as soon as the intentions of the Government have been disclosed, to come to some arrangement for a meeting in London (either St. James’s Hall, Duke of Wellington’s Riding School, or elsewhere, but not out of doors) in order to give the keynote for the party in the country. I would not make it a meeting about the Reform Bill exclusively, but have three or four resolutions—one a general review of the Ministerial misdeeds; another a growl about Egypt; another on the question of the Franchise Bill; and a concluding one urging a dissolution, unless Gladstone has already announced one.
I should like to consult you about the resolutions and about some other points.
I remain
Yours very faithfully,
Stafford H. Northcote.
Lord Randolph Churchill to Sir Stafford Northcote.
2 Connaught Place, W.: July 10, 1884.