House of Commons. - Has been speaking to Mr [Robert?] Reid: Bob should write to the Secretary of the Inner Temple to say that Reid has promised to introduce him to the Inn; Sir George will send him a cheque for any money he needs to deposit. Will be glad for Bob to go to Venice at Easter as long as he travels comfortably. Is writing 'on [his] knee on the Treasury Bench' so cannot write more.
Trin[ity] Coll[ege] Cambridge: - Asks her to tell his father that 'everything is ready' on his side for him to 'come up and be put down [for the Inns of Court?]. Must go 'with both the two societies before 4 P.M.'. Most of his friends 'get some of their contemporaries to come with them', which he could do 'easily if required'; they need not be barristers, only members of the Inner Temple. If Mr [Robert?] Reid will go with him he would be 'only too proud'; if so, he needs his father to tell him which of them must 'procure the second society'. Could come any day; if his father is too busy, he could manage everything himself; there is 'no special hurry'. Is sorry his father is tired; hopes 'the elections and the divisions have revived him'. Hopes everything will go well on Monday. 'Muggins comes here next Friday as judge's Marshall'.
Does not think he ought to spend another night in London this term. Will 'propose something absolutely definite about [Robert?] Kitson next week'. Asks her to thank his father for 'his approval of the scheme', and to tell him that 'politics are running very high here'. Last night he 'actually had to listen to the reading of a formal curse against some Gladstonian MP', from Lancashire if he remembers correctly, against whom 'they had some special grudge'. Asks 'Could bigotry possibly go further?'.
Trinity College, Cambridge - Thanks him for his copy of 'Totemism and Exogamy', grieves that [Lorimer] Fison and [A. W.] Howitt have not lived to read it; had a visit from [John] Roscoe; and discusses ways he has supported Roscoe's candidature: he reminded [Lord] Crewe of Frazer's application for Roscoe, and wrote to Sir Kenneth Muir Mackenzie recommending Roscoe; notes that he knows the Chancellor [Lord Loreburn], but thinks it more effective to approach Muir Mackenzie.
Trinity College, Cambridge. Dated 23rd May 1910 - Thanks him for his copy of 'Totemism and Exogamy', grieves that [Lorimer] Fison and [A. W.] Howitt have not lived to read it; had a visit from [John] Roscoe; and discusses ways he has supported Roscoe's candidature: he reminded [Lord] Crewe of Frazer's application for Roscoe, and wrote to Sir Kenneth Muir Mackenzie recommending Roscoe; notes that he knows the Chancellor [Lord Loreburn], but thinks it more effective to approach Muir Mackenzie.