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Reform Club, S. W. (on embossed notepaper for the Cobden Club). - The Committee have directed him to send Houghton a copy of a letter from Goldwin Smith, for consideration at the next meeting to be held in Feb. 1868. With enclosure: copy of letter, 10 Jul. 1867, from Goldwin Smith to [Thomas Bayley] Potter. Address given as Mortimer House, Reading. Potter asks 'how the Cobden Club can be made most useful'; thinks that 'Political men are the best guides', but will give his thoughts. Seems 'impossible, if it were desirable, now to restrict the Club to the circle of Cobden's personal friends and disciple, or even to the special propagation of his economical & international doctrines', though believes this was the 'original conception'.

Suggests that there might be one principal meeting in the year, at which a paper 'on some economical or international subject' might be read before dinner and afterwards printed by the Club; that dinner should be 'good but plain and short, if possible not much exceeding an hour', and that afterwards the 'leaders' should be given the opportunity of speaking to their 'assembled followers Parliamentary and non-Parliamentary about the political subjects of the day'. There could also be evening parties two or three times each session of Parliament, to which they might 'admit ladies, and invite foreigners'. Cobden Club business might be 'got up' by 'any member you liked'. The party 'needs a social board'; the Committee should select those chosen to give the annual paper; discussion of whether Parliamentarians would be able to make the paper and dinner.

Savile Club, 15, Savile Row, W. - McLennan's friend Lionel Robinson, hon. secretary of the Century Club, has asked him to write a note to Houghton in favour of Robinson as secretary of the Cobden Club, of which Houghton is a member of the Committee. Robinson is a 'good man of business' with a position in the Audit Office; he is a trained journalist and occasionally writes for papers such as the Saturday Review; his language skills.

McLennan leads 'a life of continual plodding now at official hod-work - drawing Bills and revising statutes'; does not feel in the best place for 'working out my literary projects', but has them 'always in view however', and is making slow progress. Hopes Houghton and his wife are well.

Hotel de Blois, Blois. - His friend Sir Charles Dilke has nominated him for the position of secretary to the Cobden Club and, with Sir Louis Mallet's agreement, has suggested he write to Houghton, a member of the Committee, to request 'the favour of a personal interview'. Desires this all the more as his 'work has till recently lain principally in Cambridge, at Trinity College', and he is therefore not well known in London. Says when he would be available, and gives his address as 5 William St, 11 Bedford Row W.C.

42 Bessborough Gardens, Pimlico. - Has known G. C. Warr, one of the candidates for the position of secretary of the Cobden Club, very well since the beginning of Warr's studies at Cambridge; he is a 'man of great intellectual power, a thorough Liberal, and a most energetic and enlightened politician'; he has recently given a course of educational lectures in the north of England on 'the political institutions of the United States, and all who heard them speak of them in terms of the highest praise'. Can think of nobody better to be secretary of the Cobden Club.

With wrapper labelled 'Cobden Club' in the hand of Arthur Edwin Scanes', first arranger of Houghton's papers, originally containing HOUG/A/D/1/6.