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62 Portland Gate. - Believes there is no doubt that Edward Twisleton committed suicide; 'the Report of the Doctor to Lord Saye & Sele was evidently concocted in order to conceal the truth from Lady S. & S.' Twistleton lived for three days, 'for he had not divided the carotid artery', which allowed the doctor to say he died of 'cerebral effusion': Reeves does not doubt there was 'pressure on the brain'.

Does not 'at all' agree with Houghton about the Conynghams: 'If people choose to accept the position & emoluments of a King's Mistress, they must take the consequence, & Lady Conyngham is not more sacred to me than Madame de Montespan or Madame du Barri'.

Literary Society dinners begin on Monday, but is afraid Houghton will not be there; asks if he would rather be proposed as member of 'The Club' 'with the possibility of not being elected or not being proposed at all'. 'The Club' has lost Van de Weyer and Twisleton this year, and Reeve would gladly propose Houghton when it meets in February.

Grosvenor Hotel, Park St. - [His brother] Edward Turner Boyd Twistleton was with him in early August, and was a member of a party from Broughton Castle to Edgehill, where 'he explained the Bearings of the Fight with all the Precision of one who had been in it'; he 'never saw him again'. Edward 'had evidently been ailing, tho he told noone of it, both in Eye Sight, the Liver, and the Head'. Thinks these symptoms led his brother to cross the Channel 'that he might trouble no one'. Lord Saye and Sele's son received a telegram from the landlord of the Hotel des Bains at Boulogne on 4 Oct., summoning him over; he found Edward 'sinking' and he did not survive the evening of the 5th.

Transciption of the report of the Chief Physician of the hospital at Boulogne, Dr Dehannel, 18 Oct. 1874, which found that the primary cause of symptoms and death was 'Cerebral Affection localised at the point where the Optic Nerves take root'.

Since it is 'no longer a secret', mentions that in 1860 Lord Granville offered Edward the Clerkship of the Council now held by Sir Arthur Helps, on the resignation of Mr Bathurst.

Any attack on Monk over the Horfield Manor case will rebound