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The National Gallery appointment is in the gift of Milnes' 'despotic master, 'orange' Peel, & could you soften his obdurate heart, [Morris] Moore would be pretty sure of the post; Milnes will perceive Moore's suitability if he calls; 'Mere picture dealing sagacity does not go far, & public taste needs direction, & has already too many purveyors to its pampered & gross appetite'.

Bayswater.- Morris Moore should succeed Seguier [at the National Gallery]: he is the best judge of Italian pictures in the country; 'He is an anti humbug and therefore is not likely to have many supporters'; can Milnes contrive it?

5: Account of the home life of William Coningham, MP.

Brighton. - Is not selling his pictures for the benefit of Froude but because of losses in the West Indies caused by Government folly. £15 or £20 is a large sum to find, and Froude is not a personal friend. Details of Coningham's wife's health. Sending Froude to Germany would be the ruin of him; he would be better working for the press or going to America.

Re the Froude affair, Coningham cannot give as much as Milnes suggests because Froude is wilfully pursuing the wrong course: 'He requires a practical belief to live by - the Germans can only fling him headlong into materialism, the slough of despond of feeble minds, or intoxicate him with an unpractical mysticism...'

Pontefract. - On the death of Robert Pemberton Milnes.

Balmes [?] Lodge, Great Malvern. - Condolences on the death of Lady Houghton; her husband also asks for his name to be joined with hers in sympathy but 'he now, never writes - & is as sad a wreck as you can imagine'.