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Reform Club, Pall Mall, S.W.1 (address embossed), sent to ‘Mrs Trevelyan, The Shiffolds, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking’) . - Tried to ring Bessie from the station this morning, but 'phone recalcitrant. All seems going well'; hopes all well with her.

Lewes Ho[use], Lewes. - Has been to Paris about a Renoir ["Madame Charpentier et ses enfants"] which he has succeeded in purchasing for the [Metropolitan] Museum, which 'is quite secret'. This is the only time he has left Helen, who 'wants someone to walk with her all day', but hopes to get away for a few days and to 'look at the various houses'. Their own landlord is to turn them out at Christmas so they must find something, and it is 'evident that H[elen] ought to be in the country'. Encourages Bob to read Ferrero's "La Grandeur et Décadence du Rome", though he has the London Library's copy at the moment. Adds in a postscript that he is up for election at the Reform Club on 18 Apr; asks Bob to mention this to his father.

85 East Broadway, New York, U. S. America. - Asks if Milnes can retrieve ten pounds owed to Wood by Mr Weeks, who is editing the Anglo-American in London; assisted him unwittingly and did not join conspiracy to swindle Houghton; suffering caused by Weeks and Edge. Dr Charles Mackay should be expelled from the Reform Club; he is an extreme Tory and has taken blood-money here; Wood saved Mackay's name and kept his son from the workhouse but Mackay still attempts to blacken his character and owes him money. Sorry to see the Tories in power; riots may be harmful to the cause but may show that 'popular disturbances and tory (mis)rule are coincidental'. Postscript: sending letter via brother in Yorkshire.