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Admiralty. - Difficulty of obtaining a messenger's place from Baring, especially for those over 30; Milnes's protégé unlikely to succeed; own position offers no preferments except schoolmasterships; unable to visit Woburn but 'shd like to see you draw on the buskin again - histrionics... are still allowed in reformed Abbeys'; opposition to Wiesman's belief that Catholic Bishops have the right to govern Protestants. Postscript: asks whether [Kingsley's] Alton Locke will do some good.

26 Plymouth Grove, Manchester. - Her friend Alfred Waterhouse, architect of the Manchester Assize Courts, is dismayed to be excluded from the list of competitors for the London Law Courts drawn up by Mr W. Cowper; he has gone to London to seek consideration but 'his best hope is in Mr Bazley, our good inartistic MP'; Waterhouse does not like to ask Gladstone's help though he is a great admirer; asks if Milnes can help without Waterhouse knowing; will send a pamphlet of his which has converted a Trades Union.

House of Commons - difficulty in finding a "well qualified man for the post", favourable description of Donne, Heaps does not wish to direct his studies in the direction that the post requires