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Wallington, Cambo, Morpeth. - Caroline much enjoyed her time with Elizabeth and her visit from Robert; hopes that Wallington will give her the strength she lacks. The garden is very beautiful: they have a 'fine new greenhouse' where they have dianthus 'worthy of Kew'. Read [Samuel] Butler's "Alps and Sanctuaries" at Welcombe, and understands why so many went out to 'follow in his footsteps'; Butler is 'unique' and 'not less amusing for his extravagancies and absurdities'; Sir Charles Holroyd has been to visit, and gave them a fine account of when he 'as a young art student used to go on [Butler's] tramps with him round London'.

Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Thanks Robert for his letter full of news: Robert 'happy to have seen Rodin [before his death]'; President Wilson has got Sargent to paint him; America, as shown by the 'article on Lincoln's statue' [mentioned in 12/280] is a country of which the 'Ruler' should insist on being painted only by the best - expressed by a quotation in Latin [from Horace Epistles 2.1]. Read Robert's translations from Lucretius yesterday 'with great sympathy and admiration'. Quotes, in Latin with English translation, what is said to be a translation by Cicero from Epicharmus on death. Edinburgh is a 'wonderful city'; Uncle Tom [Macaulay's] three favourite cities were Edinburgh [though he 'had enough of it' in the end], Oxford, and Genoa, which was the first Italian city he saw. Comments on the fates of Venice and Jerusalem being 'in the balance'; his 'most pathetic regrets' about destruction caused by the war are for Dinant, which he had seen, and the Cloth Hall at Ypres, which he had never seen. Is reading, and is much entertained by, Monk's "Life of Bentley". Loved Sir Charles Holroyd [who has recently died], and his 'heart bleeds for Rosebery' [over the death of his son Neil Primrose].

Regarding memorials to A. J. Butler and his work on the Gioliti Press.