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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'.

Pontefract. - On the death of Robert Pemberton Milnes.

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...'

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.

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

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?

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'.